2023-08-31 14:55:11
This year, he had not passed the second round of any of the Grand Slam tournaments, so his victory on Wednesday in the second round once morest Fabian Marozsan (92nd in the world) and the prospect of facing Frances Tiafoe (10th and semi-finalist l last year) for a place in the round of 16 might be something to cheer him up. But no. In any case, not visibly or audibly.
“Yeah… I don’t have a very good feeling at the moment. We can see that on the positive side by thinking that winning two games and not feeling very good on the court is pretty good” , he blurts, his shaved head buried in the hood of his hoodie.
He himself hates his game, without particularly strong blow, but made to destabilize the opponent, with his racket surprisingly not very tight.
However, he has something to get excited regarding since one of his points once morest Marozsan made the rounds of social networks even before the end of the match for its spectacular side.
But he minimizes: “I try to hit under the legs… and I hit her with the frame! I’m not even good at that…”, he confides hotly.
“Anecdotal”
“Finally the ball plunges into his feet, he didn’t expect it, pfff… Very lucky. It’s a bit anecdotal, it’s nice, but it’s not what you have to remember the most regarding this game,” he added.
The former 22nd in the world doesn’t really like playing at Flushing Meadows “because on the pitch, there’s traffic, it’s moving in all directions, there’s noise, there’s loud music. I find it so disrespectful for players who play on the annexes, to have a Disneyland all around”, he describes Wednesday following his match on court 11.
At the end of the first round, he had been more explicit: “At the four corners of the court you have a little different smells. It can be weed (cannabis) on one side, shit on the other”, he pointed out.
And it’s not better on the big courts: “Even when you play on the Central, there are always people who yell, who say bullshit between the points. It’s not easy to concentrate”, grumbles. he with a rather amused recoil.
Because he readily admits that he is not “really expressive” when in reality he is “super happy to win games and go one more round”.
However, he explains that he is “rarely satisfied” with his level of play despite the round of 16 in Australia (2022) and Wimbledon (2013, 2017 and 2018).
At the end of the night
“For now, I’m far from the potential I think I have. It’s encouraging and motivating, but on the other hand it’s frustrating,” he notes.
And even final victories are not necessarily a moment of fulfillment.
“The awards ceremony is boring, it’s long, it’s an ordeal. You just want to share with your friends, you don’t want to wait for the speech of the deputy mayor sport,” he said when asked regarding the apathy displayed on the court following his victory on the grass of Newport in July, the third title of his career.
In fact, what he likes is to share the unique moments he lives alone on the court.
“It’s a whole environment that is being put in place, which makes you live an incredible moment on a court. In Australia once morest Aslan Karatsev in 2022, it was super late, there were still a lot of spectators, they were practically all drunk, it was an incredible moment to live. You saw the time passing and you were still on the court running left, right. Your brain no longer thinks too much, you go from one point to the Other, your team pushes you, encourages you. For me, these are the best moments to live”, he says.
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