Alex De Minaur is a player who has shown many times during his career how ambitious he is and how much he strives to improve.
At times, this presents a burden and a source of pressure, considering that he always strives to improve on the ATP list and try to conquer his opponents.
The Australian player started the season successfully with two wins and one loss at the United Cup, and the rest of the season is really interesting, especially when it comes to Alex De Minaur.
The Australian Open could be a great opportunity to climb higher on the ATP rankings, and before his appearance in Melbourne, the world number six spoke about his ambitions for the 2026 season..
De Minaur has a chance to improve to fifth place on the ATP list, and when asked by a reporter how much it would mean to him, he had an interesting answer.
Alex De Minaur does not want this to be an additional pressure for him, nor to show excessive behavior towards his colleagues, i.e. the opponent is aware that this can only undermine everything he has achieved so far.
“I will talk about it when I know it’s 100% certain.
It is what it is. I think ultimately in tennis there’s so many variables, right? Over the years, that’s something I’ve obsessed about, something that I’ve looked at after every single match, focused on everyone else’s results."- Alex de Minaur said.
Goals
Experts and fans are already predicting whether the young Australian will succeed in his intentions in the middle of the year or at the end of the year. When you have that much pressure, both from the media and from the fans, it's certainly not easy to deal with.
He tends to have a unique mindset and not allow anyone to spoil his plans. With the help of his team, but also with experience, he knows how to stay calm in difficult situations.
Alex De Minaur is aware that mindset plays an important role.
“As I saw last year, it consumed me, right? It was too much. I’m doing my best to kind of be a lot more chilled out about it.
If it happens, it happens. I think I played some good tennis here. Ultimately, yeah, any improvements would be welcome.
Those are the goals that I’m pursuing. Whether I achieve it this next coming week or at the end of the year or in the middle of the year.
I’m going to be looking forward to hopefully finishing off the year higher than I did this last year. That’s my main goal.”- he concluded.
