Fans' Voice: De Minaur goes down to Rublev

Australia's last hope in Australian Open singles Alex de Minaur has gone down to Andrey Rublev in five sets.

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00:00 Yeah, I got a bit emotional at the end there.

00:01 I thought he was going to come back, but it just wasn't the beat.

00:04 That show was absolutely electric.

00:14 Go Alex! Yay!

00:16 It's so disappointing that Alex lost

00:29 after four hours sitting here in the freezing cold.

00:32 The last set wasn't great,

00:33 but everything up until then was really good,

00:35 and I'm still glad I came.

00:37 I love Alex.

00:37 Demon Oil was, you know, it was real.

00:40 We had 720 bucks on him in the syndicate,

00:42 and we thought he was home there in the fourth.

00:44 He just had to hold his mind together.

00:46 I think it was more a game he versus himself than Ruvlev.

00:51 It's a tough loss, you know,

00:52 like we obviously wanted him to bring out the demons.

00:55 Yeah, very sad.

00:56 Yeah, we thought he had it,

00:58 but he gave it his best shot.

01:00 It was a really amazing game, but he'll get him next time.

01:03 He's amazing.

01:04 He returns as much as he possibly can.

01:06 He's just a sensational player and a human, amazing human.

01:11 Pretty awesome to win there.

01:12 It was like, I don't know, like a final.

01:16 I've been to four matches this week,

01:18 and that was the best one without a doubt.

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