Alex de Minaur hints at Novak Djokovic suspicions over Aus Open injury

Alex de Minaur appeared to raise some suspicions about Novak Djokovic’s hamstring injury after the fourth seed downed him 6-2 6-1 6-2 in their Australian Open fourth-round tie. It was their first meeting on the tour, and the Aussie has since claimed that Djokovic was moving fine while saying the Serb’s hamstring “looked good” in his eyes.

De Minaur was thrashed in his first-ever meeting with Djokovic as the world No 5 dropped just five games en route to the Australian Open quarter-final while carrying a hamstring injury that he picked up during his Adelaide semi-final match two weeks ago. After requiring multiple medical time outs in his first three rounds, the 35-year-old looked sublime against the 22nd seed and de Minaur appeared to question the severity of the issue afterwards.

The 23-year-old was full of praise for Djokovic’s performance during his post-match press conference, prompting a report to ask whether it made “all the speculation about the hamstring frustrating” as his opponent. De Minaur played coy, responding: “I don’t know. You tell me how you thought he looked out there. Playing him, I thought he was moving pretty well, so… I don’t know.”

But he appeared to double-down on his question over the fourth seed’s hamstring as he was then asked whether it was tough to forget all of the speculation about Djokovic’s injury when going into a match against the man himself. “Look, I don’t know,” he said.

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