20-year-old being treated daily for abdominal injuryHome hope pulls out of Adelaide InternationalA devastated Alex de Minaur says he will seek daily treatment on an abdominal injury in the hope of playing in the
Australian Open starting next week after Australia’s top-ranked player withdrew from the Adelaide International, which was to have been his final preparation for the Open.
De Minaur has stopped short of declaring himself a certain starter in Melbourne. “At the moment we’re going to take it day by day,” he told reporters in Adelaide on Monday. “It’s something that is not ideal. And at this stage we are just looking at short-term goals and trying to get better each day [with] a lot of treatment.