Alex de Minaur has promised not to get dragged back into the "dark places" his mind visited during his topsy-turvy ATP Finals, declaring positively that his best tennis is yet to come.
Australia's world No.7 showed not a hint of the despair that engulfed him earlier in the week, as he reflected on a breakthrough end-of-season championship in Turin that was curtailed rudely by Jannik Sinner's 13th-straight victory over de Minaur in the semi-finals.
Though Sinner concluded his ATP year with a familiarly ruthless 7-5 6-2 win, de Minaur was left upbeat after achieving his first Finals win and a season in which he earned another title in Washington and a personal-best 56 match victories.
