By Richard Pagliaro | Tuesday, October 14, 2025
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Heading down the home stretch, Alex de Minaur is aiming to protect his body from hobbling through the end of the season.
US Open quarterfinalist de Minaur pulled out of this week’s Hong Kong exhibition nursing a recurrence of the hip injury that sidelined him for a month last summer.
Speaking to Tennis Majors’ Cédric Rouquette, de Minaur said he’s experiencing “a lot of pain” in his hip and “can’t take any chances” as he strives to qualify for the ATP Finals for a second straight season.
“It’s a hip injury, the one I sustained last year after Wimbledon which sidelined me for a long time so it is an area of concern,” de Minaur told Tennis Majors. “So this is something that I can’t take any chances with. Last year it sidelined me for almost three or four months, and I played the rest of the year with pain.
“Now, it’s warning signs, I need to make sure everything is good. I don’t want to have the same problem as last year. I need to be smart and look after the body.”
The seventh-ranked Aussie, who leads the ATP in hard court wins this season, is one win away from his 300th career victory.
De Minaur said he aggravated the injury in Beijing then took painkillers to play the Rolex Shanghai Masters, reaching the quarterfinals at the ATP Masters 1000 event before bowing to Daniil Medvedev.
Now, de Minaur plans to have an MRI scan on his hip before deciding his schedule for the final months of the season.
“I played through Shanghai with some painkillers to do my best to get through but I knew that something kind of was not right, right?” de Minaur told Tennis Majors. “I need to go get a scan. I need to see what the issue is, why I’m still getting pain and then once we kind of sit down with the team, the doctor, the medical team, we can assess what the game plan will be for the rest of the year, right?
“So there’s a lot of question marks, a lot of uncertainty, so I’ve got to kind of wait and see, play the waiting game.”
