{"id":15057,"date":"2025-11-12T06:09:39","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T04:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/australias-de-minaur-vows-not-to-continue-with-defeats\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:27:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:27:25","slug":"australias-de-minaur-vows-not-to-continue-with-defeats","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/australias-de-minaur-vows-not-to-continue-with-defeats\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a0Australia&#8217;s De Minaur vows not to continue with defeats\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">De Minaur battled back from going one set down to force a decider where he held a 5-3 lead, only for Musetti to win four games in succession in an incredible round-robin match in Turin that the Italian won 7-5 3-6 7-5. At the United States Open in September De Minaur won the first set against Felix Auger-Aliassime but ended up losing his sixth Grand Slam quarterfinal.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">At Wimbledon in the fourth round, he won the opening set 6-1 against Novak Djokovic only to suffer a similar fate.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":15058,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-15057","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"After Alex de Minaur snatched defeat from the jaws of victory in a devastating loss to Italian Lorenzo Musetti at the ATP Finals the Australian said he cannot go on failing that way","published_date":"2025-11-12 00:00:00","news_description":"After Alex de Minaur snatched defeat from the jaws of victory in a devastating loss to Italian Lorenzo Musetti at the ATP Finals the Australian said he cannot go on failing that way","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/15057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/15057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19458,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/15057\/revisions\/19458"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=15057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}