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0260/0260-1-A.mp4 | This is that the way you play Grand Slam tournament tennis. | Yeah, it's definitely definitely a very good match for me. Came out pretty much on fire, you know, a really clean match. Obviously, I got broken at the end serving for it, but that's tennis, you know, and he stepped up his game towards the end. He had nothing to lose there, made some really good returns, some good poin... |
0274/0274-4-A.mp4 | In terms of how your career, as I said, is sort of right, the way you're playing at the moment. | Yeah, I mean, definitely I'm up there playing with the best tennis I've played throughout my career and I still feel like I can play better so yeah, good things are going to come. |
0141/0141-7-A.mp4 | And he said in a tweet that he thought it was the best win of your career given all the circumstances. So I just wanted to know, do you feel like it's the best win of your career? | It's definitely up there for sure. It's really hard to put if it's the best win or not. For sure that the physical test was a great win for me to come through like that in a grand slam. That's the five sets in that kind of heat. Really good for my career and my confidence going forward for sure. On paper it's obviously... |
0443/0443-9-A.mp4 | And with your own success, even though at the time the injuries were really bad, do you think kind of going away from the game and wanting to come back in so badly for you maybe help discover that even further desire to then get to the... | No, I mean, it's always been, it's always, that desire is always there for me. I mean, in my whole life, I've never felt a day where I've wanted to stop playing or anything. It's always been, it's been frustrating when I haven't been able to be on the court. And I mean, you know, even now with the injuries, you just wa... |
0257/0257-7-A.mp4 | Many players say this year the surface of this tournament is quite fast compared to last year. So how do you feel and how does it work for you? | Yeah, I definitely felt like the court. It's pretty fast on that arena. Show court tour 1573, I think it's called. I can never remember 14, 16, you know, like something. But yeah, it's definitely, it definitely plays faster. And I played T-tops there last year, and I remember it being a little bit slower than it was th... |
0111/0111-4-A.mp4 | I'm shutting the roof so it'll be such short notice to unsettle you a bit. | I probably would have liked to play with an open roof, but I guess with the way I was serving it wouldn't have helped much. |
0339/0339-6-A.mp4 | Your opponent after the match said you kind of spoke to her in the changing room and she was kind of saying that you had been criticising the umpire a little bit in there about a time violation point. I was just wondering if you could kind of clarify to us what I was criticising what? The umpire today about the kind of... | I told her to and I would look into it as well because I mean I don't know but I thought that You I didn't think she deserved the time violation And I thought that the umpire has to wait Until the crowd stops clapping before announcing the score and I felt that you know just to keep the match going He was announcing it... |
0346/0346-7-A.mp4 | How do you feel now that it's materialized? | Well, it was not something I was thinking about, of course, because we all know anything can happen in tennis. But yeah, I mean, I'm super excited. This is why we play the big tournaments to play the best players. |
0357/0357-15-A.mp4 | I took two sets after the first set in Brisbane, and I took two sets after the first set this time. I saw how calm I was. I was able to win in the off-season training, and I was able to see how I could win in the full set. I saw the second set, the first one, the third game, the duels, and the third set, the duels of t... | Definitely, I think my training during off-season helped a lot. Abdul really helped me with letting me sort of believe in the fact that I can play long matches, and I'm okay with it because I don't really get tired. Yeah, about... I don't really remember points when I play, so I'm not really sure exactly what I was thi... |
0062/0062-9-A.mp4 | I was going to ask what particularly impressed you about her and is anything surprised you? You studied her quite intently before. Did you do what you thought she was going to do? | Well, she's a player that I actually watch a lot, because I don't know whenever they play her a lot on the TV. I didn't realize she was so tall, to be honest. I thought she was more my height, which I think she's taller than me. Yeah, but other than that, it was just, I've always wanted to play her, so it was a good op... |
0363/0363-9-A.mp4 | He said on tennis or maybe. | The way that we see how I have to play on court, how I have to behave, how my mindset has to be, the way that I have to build the point, the way that I have to be aggressive and small things like the technical things as well. It's very important because if you're not in green with your coach and then the pressure point... |
0016/0016-1-A.mp4 | First of all congratulations, how do you feel to win in 3 sets? | Yeah, it was a good match. Definitely much better than the first match. There were many up and downs, especially the second set and also third set too. But I think I was focused when I needed the game. Yeah, it was a good match for me. |
0289/0289-9-A.mp4 | I'm curious if you got to see, obviously it was really good inside the stadium, but if you saw it was happening outside with all the... Someone told me, yeah. | They were cheering all the time. Were they Greek fans? |
0330/0330-13-A.mp4 | Now, for this second Grand Slam final of your career, what things did you talk about with Sasha beforehand? I didn't talk to him. Is that different? | Um, I don't know, I just... Yeah, I... No, like, we haven't really been talking to be honest, like, before any of my matches here. He would tell me, like, one thing, and then... I would be like, okay. And that was it. I'm sorry. So, you're 21. |
0331/0331-19-A.mp4 | In the interview, I said that it was scary to shoot a serve. I said that it was the last scene or the second set. In the previous interview, I said that it was a great idea to have inner peace. But today's situation, especially the beginning, was made with such a mind. | Yeah, I mean if you notice like in the second set in the third set she got super aggressive on my second serve She was running around them and For me I Didn't like I wanted to risk hitting it a little bit faster, but at the same time I didn't feel like she was doing like she was hitting winners You know I could still t... |
0015/0015-4-A.mp4 | The next opponent is K Nishikori. But you are ranking world number 70. K is world number 5. So next match, are you challenger for next month's fourth round? 4K? If I am a challenger? Challenger, yeah. Who are? The next match, are you challenger for next month's fourth round? | If he's the favourite, or no? If he's the favourite, or...? Yeah, you need to see me. Yeah, sure. I mean, he's the favourite. Or maybe me, I don't know. It doesn't matter. It doesn't... The draw is still... I still have to play K. If he's the favourite, I'm the favourite. I don't know, but he's definitely played better... |
0257/0257-9-A.mp4 | Dennis, Novak hasn't even started yet, so he's going to play pretty late tonight. So, you have a pretty fair chance you play at night on Saturday. You played Arthur Ashe and everything. Would it be fun to play at night, man? Should Rod Leyberg and Sim? Definitely. | That would be a dream come true, man. That would be so sick for me. Yeah, I mean, I think every little boy, you know, dreams of a reporter asking him, hey, how would you feel, you know, playing at Night'sama Raw Labor Arena? That's unbelievable. Honestly, it would be, yeah, it would be amazing just to play Raw Labor, b... |
0031/0031-4-A.mp4 | Last time that you played a big, big fight and you won it, in your memory, which one is this? The one that you consider more or less the same level. | I don't know. I don't remember now, sorry. |
0316/0316-2-A.mp4 | Francis, fun effort today. Just want to understand more about what you do outside of tennis, like what do you do for fun? | I mean, I love basketball so I'm at a million NBA games, especially when I'm home. I'm a big Washington with a fan. I'm hanging out with my friends. I'll see my girlfriend when I'm not playing. Yeah, I mean, other than that, I'm pretty easy going. I'm screaming lazy so I wouldn't mind doing like a Netflix and chill, li... |
0374/0374-3-A.mp4 | So the end of the Sydney match, that was cramping or exhaustion? It was more... | cramping. Yeah, but it wasn't like an exhaustion. I, of course, I didn't sleep for four nights, but but yeah, it was like more cramping. And of course with the nerves in the end of the sets, it wasn't really easy. I couldn't serve it out twice, so you know, not easy. |
0323/0323-6-A.mp4 | Sorry, a bit of a different topic, but there was a lot of coverage yesterday of you forgetting your credential when you were heading into the locker room. And I'm just curious how conscious you are of this at this time of always being on camera. It seems that they catch everything here. Yeah, it's different times nowad... | So sometimes good, sometimes bad, you know. But it's not like we never have anybody taking pictures or videos of us. Now it's just like everywhere all the time. So it's hard to find the corner where you can actually sort of relax a bit. But I can deal with it. It's no problem. |
0147/0147-2-A.mp4 | So with your injury are you going to cut down your season? Are you going to play selective tournaments? So how is it going to be for the rest of the year? | We'll see, we'll see. I don't think I will change much. The plan is the opposite to play a bit more if the knee is keeping, because I didn't play for six months. But first it was to come here to see if I was able to play, and I won the first match. I'm going to focus on the tournament. I know that after that I have a l... |
0236/0236-4-A.mp4 | Do you feel right now kind of bad luck, you know, having come in with good form and just to come up with the injury that didn't allow you to play your best tennis or what's kind of the feeling right now? | Of course it's tough that I couldn't play my game, but it's like this. Yeah, probably an oculos a bit. |
0341/0341-12-A.mp4 | The coaching of your parents was briefly mentioned before. What would you say the one thing your dad has brought to you as a tennis player and the same thing for your mom? | Yeah, not just one thing, just pretty much everything, so it would be very difficult to just pick one. Okay, a few things. Yeah, I think the way my dad was thinking changed the game, so that's pretty huge. And thankfully we got to work with him and be a part of that. |
0429/0429-17-A.mp4 | This is a great success, a great result. I think it can be removed in the next three months or I don't know, I don't know, but it's already been removed because you have a great chance to have it on your hair, on your US Open, in two or three hours, on your hair and almost nothing, you can just put it on your hair and ... | Yes, so it's probably for the left track and the matches I played here. Not only here in Birmingham, I need to know what I did here. Because I know it very well, I'm an autopilot. Every day there are two matches, or there was free training. So I need to give some distance and then get back to it. And I think it will ma... |
0363/0363-10-A.mp4 | You've made the quarter finals a few times now at the Grand Slams. You haven't progressed further than that, but do you feel like you're ready to take enough of that next step and winning the WTA final? Has that sort of contributed to that? | It gave me a huge boost of confidence, so I don't think about the past anymore. I only look forward, I look for the next challenge, I try to win as many matches as I can, many titles as I can and this is the goal for this year. |
0313/0313-1-A.mp4 | He said before the match that you thought you'd learnt a lot about his game from that final in Toronto Does it feel to you like he's playing a different style of tennis now from them? For sure for sure he does I mean yeah definitely He's aggression and he served | Stephanie, do you still feel like the most happy man in the world? And what's the most important takeaway from this match for you? |
0055/0055-3-A.mp4 | Point in the match we thought, like a turning point we thought you might be slipping away from you. | Yeah, well I had a lot of chances, you know, I was down the second set and I was fighting to come back and I managed to break back. I had two set points, he served an ace on one of them and he had a bit of a long rally the second one and he went for a big forehand line and he managed to get it. One of the big plays tha... |
0007/0007-5-A.mp4 | I agree, you lost seven times out of eight to Nadal and beat three times out of four around each. Is it an easy bet that you prefer to play one instead of the other without the mean? There's no easy bets here, my friend. | There's no easy bets out here. I mean, whoever I play, I don't, I don't really care. I don't prefer either one. There's lightest preference? No, but in order to win a slam, there's no shortcut if you think about it. I mean, when you've seen like a easy, you know, semi-final or something like that, it's you gotta work f... |
0405/0405-12-A.mp4 | What's your next move from here? What's your plans heading up to the French Open? | Oh, French is a long time away. I think I'll worry about getting home and being able to celebrate what my team and what I've been able to achieve over the last month. It's been a hell of a month of tennis and I'm extremely proud of myself and of my team and I think we'll certainly kick back with a beer tonight. |
0073/0073-1-A.mp4 | I mean it's how sharp you feel when you're not dropping it set through to the quarters. It looks pretty good as it feel, as good as it looks. | Thank you. I hope so. I mean, it's at this point in the tournament, you want to feel good, you want to feel like you're doing everything perfectly. And really at the end of the day, it's about walking to the net, shaking hands as a winner. So however that happens is if it's two sets or three sets, that's how I'm going ... |
0316/0316-3-A.mp4 | You got down an early break against each step, but besides that, how close did you feel like you were with him in most of the game? | I mean I had that one, forget, was it was three, two, or four, three, I can't remember in a second. I don't know which end that I can't remember. But I had a couple break points there. He started missing some first serve, the thing that was probably, if I could have broke there, you know, get going a little bit, but it... |
0253/0253-6-A.mp4 | On the broadcast and on social media coverage of this tournament, there's a lot of use of the many cameras they have in the tunnels around Radley Verbena and around the tournament. I'm curious how conscious you are of those cameras when you're doing your daily stuff around those areas and if you're always comfortable w... | I'm aware that when you get on site that you have cameras all over the corridor and that connects the transport area with locker rooms and gym, that's where we commute the most. So yeah, I mean look, the only thing that I don't like is that there's no connection between the ice baths, recovery center and the locker roo... |
0098/0098-4-A.mp4 | Do you ever look at past ways players have beaten her like Vinci or she also Brangle and Aplan just ways of different matches? Yeah I saw that match actually I guess. | in Auckland so yeah she's human and she is beatable but this is a grand slam and we are talking that she already won but I don't like these talks but if she wins I will try my best and I will have to work hard and then play my best tennis to beat Serena because she's amazing player and she knows how to play these match... |
0026/0026-3-A.mp4 | Possibly Jack is talking the next round. He had two tight wins against him. How would you imagine a match against him here? | Yeah, of course it's going to be a different match than the others. Different conditions. Anyway, it's going to be important for me to try to put my game on the court and not let him play too much. He's got a good foreign. He's going to go for it for sure. And it's going to be important for me to be good on my move to ... |
0186/0186-1-A.mp4 | How's the ankle? | I don't know now. I felt a big pain on court but I didn't have time to go to check it. I just had a shower, I had stretching and I came here. I just want to wait for tomorrow to see how I wake up. From my experience I feel that it's nothing broken but still the pain was big and I have to see with the doctors. |
0334/0334-12-A.mp4 | This is the first time I'm in Australia's best court. If Osaka's best court is in the best condition, I'm confident that I can beat anyone. | Hardcore is for sure the court that I'm most comfortable on. Everyone knows this. And yeah, I mean, I do have a certain level of confidence whenever I play anyone on hardcore. I think I've won the most matches on here, so definitely I think I can beat anyone. |
0161/0161-1-A.mp4 | Obviously tonight didn't go your way but it was a phenomenal match. How are you feeling at the moment? Can you put it in towards? | Yeah, well feeling a little bit obviously disappointed which is normal. It was a big battle, five sets. And I managed to turn it around in that fourth set. It was a big boost for me with the game that I played on 3-2 when he was serving. And then that lifted me a lot up and I started to play great tennis. I was hitting... |
0188/0188-4-A.mp4 | How does it feel to be back in the quarterfinals? | It feels good, I'm happy that I'm going to be again on the wall in the last eight when you're coming to the club. So, yeah, actually I was not sure about my tennis, about my level before the tournament, so I was happy for every round. So just happy that I'm back in quarters here. |
0013/0013-6-A.mp4 | Roger, you said K has one of the best backhand on the tour and today clearly he was attacking your backhand with his backhand so how did you deal with his strategies and backhand? Yeah I mean... | The good thing is you know going in that it's going to be that way. So you're mentally prepared for it. If I wouldn't know K, I would think, let me see how his backhand is and every time it comes flying in really quickly and with a lot of angle, a lot of pace, I would be caught. I would probably lose because I wouldn't... |
0106/0106-3-A.mp4 | You said before that you had a tendency in the past to maybe beat yourself up over losses and maybe that kind of took you out of months of tournament play as you kind of sit there now. Is this a tough loss for you or do you walk away from Melbourne Park feeling like things are on track? | So it's 50-50 because first of all of course I'm very disappointed I lost today and I actually I thought I had a lot of chances today and I didn't take a lot of chances in the first set and also tie-break in the second and so that kind of disappointed. I'm not very confident but at the same time definitely had up and I... |
0443/0443-7-A.mp4 | So the factor that you sort of have to get two wins over those three guys? Yeah, exactly. | Yeah, for sure that comes into it. I mean, they just know what it takes to get the job done at the end of the day, and it's been amazing that they've been able to dominate for so long. |
0260/0260-9-A.mp4 | Roger mentioned last night that you had a practice with the UNAs impressed with your game. Hey, destroyed me. How did it go and how did it come about and what was it like? | It was fun. Honestly, every time I'm hitting with Roger and I was telling Rob, I was just like, in shock still. Every time I'm talking to him and I've spent so many times just chatting, he always stops and talks to me. But he's honestly my hero. So every time I see him, I'm still shocked and I just couldn't believe it.... |
0378/0378-11-A.mp4 | Maria talking about your own off-routine. My white routine? Your routine when you're on the court and off the court. Are you a little bit more easy with yourself? We saw your Instagram with a croissant. I think you were eating in it. | love croissants. Yeah. Alright, who doesn't love croissants? No, I know, but does that mean? He sounds like he likes a croissant. |
0355/0355-6-A.mp4 | Do you see your own rankings quite similarly then? In the sense that you're both quite aggressive players and you've maybe struggled a little bit last year. | Yeah, I think we both have an aggressive game. I don't know where she's at or her ranking and stuff, but I know it's not easy stuff. So the moment you don't play extremely well, for sure you are out of that top level. |
0346/0346-4-A.mp4 | Did you change your service motion a little bit? Yeah, I did a little bit. Change your operating? | Um, well, what do you think I changed? |
0417/0417-14-A.mp4 | I wonder what your skill looks like for the next weeks. I guess maybe you need to get a short check before deciding or you already know what is the next tournament. | Yeah, I'm planning on playing St. Petersburg and probably nothing after that until I need to. |
0167/0167-6-A.mp4 | What are the biggest differences you think between what you saw from Roger this year here and last year here? Just coming back last year. I don't know, maybe he has a couple more gray hair. | I don't know, I mean guys this is like, I'm not any analyst of Roger's game, you know, so yes he's playing well, I mean that's, and he has definitely, especially with what's happening in the draw then I think he has a very good chance to win. |
0143/0143-6-A.mp4 | Yeah. To keep putting on when you've got so many other things to think about. | No, no, because you're in the sun quite a lot. I know I have to because of my pale skin, so I have to take responsibility. And my mum gives me a lecture as well, if I don't say. |
0079/0079-2-A.mp4 | And you guys have had a lot of matches over the years. You know her game really well Where you bothered it all today by her getting some coaching in the stands or she was | You see it coaching, right? That's what you see. You said that, I didn't say that. No, I mean, I believe that tennis game, it's one-on-one, that you face opponent and it's a bit frustrating and she was talking to her coach and hitting partner, which each one of them was sitting different sides. It's a bit frustrating, ... |
0253/0253-7-A.mp4 | Can I ask you about the super tie breaks in use here, the first to ten points? Do you think it's a problem at all that the four grand slams have all got different ways of ending final sets? And which of those four systems do you like best? Well, I actually thought it would... | It was a good change, it was a good innovation to say you play a super tie break. I don't mind it personally, I'm more in favour of closing out the match in a tie break or super tie break rather than going for 11 hours like Isner and Mahou. But those type of matches are part of the history and I understand that and I u... |
0339/0339-13-A.mp4 | Just on the equality thing again, there's a big men's team competition they're preparing for in January next year. It's possible the hotman cup might get kind of swallowed up or ended because of that. Is that kind of a bit of another symptom that maybe the priorities are a little bit skewed? | I'm gonna apologize. I should know about this, but I I don't know enough about this to comment on it I've heard a lot about it, but I don't really know the details of it, so |
0425/0425-2-A.mp4 | You really took it to her today over 40 winners. What did you feel like was working particularly well? And just how are you feeling out there with your game and movement and everything? | Yeah, Angie is definitely pretty tough to play. She makes a ton of balls, like a human backboard. But it was definitely a tough match, tough challenge. But I knew going in that key was to change the pace. And I had a bit of difficulty finding a happy medium between being aggressive and working the point and making a lo... |
0148/0148-11-A.mp4 | You seen him playing? Do you know how he plays? No, I haven't. | Play him before, one time, so we know how to play each other, so I have to be ready. |
0292/0292-1-A.mp4 | Taylor, how were you able to shake off against the second set and see that through? | It was really tough because I was just up in the second set. I mean, I shouldn't have lost it. I was a 4-1. I had chances, a lot of chances, to double break, to go 5-1. More chances to break again, to get the break back, and then set point serving in the tiebreaker. So it was really frustrating. But what else are you g... |
0111/0111-5-A.mp4 | When you talk about your serve kind of letting you down today is it just about first-term percentage? Yes, yes first-term percentage. | It was not very good. And just, even though I felt like my second serve was a good serve with a bit of pace on it, but every girl just knows and they know that second serve you have to be aggressive and that puts me under pressure straight away. |
0334/0334-13-A.mp4 | Today, you lost for the summer Bracket TV at the 2nd Arena in Southern Baton,酌빛 리ству을 Olympics | Yeah, I've played Svettelina a couple times now and it's been back and forth a lot. And every time I've played her it's always been super difficult for me because she gets every ball back and she doesn't really make mistakes. So today I just wanted to go in there to play at a higher pace than I normally do. I don't nor... |
0313/0313-3-A.mp4 | He did surprise me. He's not the biggest server on tour. I was pretty average server, but it's annoying that I didn't get close to breaking him at all. He's just very aggressive from the baseline. That's pretty much it. But I don't know. I really can't think of something positive on that match. Probably the second set,... | Stefan, although this is hard as you said, you only took six games, you weren't even close, I understand that. But maybe not tomorrow, maybe not in a week time, but in a few months, will this defeat help you maybe? |
0429/0429-18-A.mp4 | I'm really happy because I can see the straight side of this match with all the чтобыz | I was really happy to come here and to be exposed to my family and friends. I think it's really nice to see that I can play in my own age and play the semifinals. Because they know that it's a really important tournament for me and it's really important. So it's nice that they used it with me. |
0063/0063-2-A.mp4 | Sorry, you've made the quarter finals. It's an amazing grand slam. Obviously, that's ahead of you, but what are you hoping to achieve this year? | I'll have a few different things. My main couple goals are top 20, also making another quarter finals of SLAM, which I've already done, but as well as hitting a semis in a Grand SLAM. Those are three pretty important goals for me. |
0279/0279-4-A.mp4 | Though that you guys can get to do these things noise | It's nice, especially we had to get each other to know each other because we didn't before starting. So we were here in Dubai, in Paris all the time, together, eating together, trying to know each other and to do some stuff with the coaches. It's always nice, so it's fun. |
0184/0184-7-A.mp4 | in terms of, I don't know, like last year just sort of riding a wave, you know, of you weren't expecting much of yourself, I suppose, this time do you expect more of yourself, I suppose. | Yeah, I think last year was just everything was unexpected. It was sort of new ground for me. Everything was brand new and even though this situation is also brand new, I feel like I've got, I put pressure on myself to perform well and to play well and to do well and that's what I expected myself. It's not always going... |
0342/0342-3-A.mp4 | I want to talk, I wonder if you could talk a little bit about your focus? Like your life is so much more demanding now than it was 10, 15 years ago. You've got a child, you've got a thriving business. Are there exercises, things you do to stay focused or breathing stuff or I don't know, keep some people have mantras, w... | Yeah, you know, it's way more demanding. I mean, even today I was replying to emails about our next collection with S-brand and where we want to see it. And so it's different than I'm thinking, oh, I play a night match, so I want to spend time with my daughter because I won't see her this evening for dinner. We do have... |
0408/0408-1-A.mp4 | Venus obviously, playing against the world number one anytime. Just how much can you see that match as a measuring stick of where you match up against the top player? | I think she played pretty flawless today, only 12 errors and unfortunately I had almost three times as many and you know just needed to keep my errors down but she played a great match. Is it disappointing not to be going ahead to play Serena? I would just say in general losing is not fun, no matter who you're trying t... |
0095/0095-5-A.mp4 | Do you have any moments of flashbacks or memories when you went out on Lever for the first match since semifinal last year? | Not quite, but actually, while we were doing the five minute warm up, and the presenter was going through how I did last year and how I'm back here now, that gave me goosebumps a little bit just because it has kind of a, yeah, a comfortable circle with once season, I guess. So, yeah, that made me feel a bit warm inside... |
0451/0451-6-A.mp4 | I know you've come to anything about that point now. Yeah. But when you speak to the supervisor... | I was I was speak to Laura just right away come to press conference because she say She only watched your TV so she didn't know exactly when the lights man was calling out and what happened so maybe I try to If I have chance I try to talk to Tony. I think Tony was on side So so I'll ask her how they make the point to r... |
0334/0334-15-A.mp4 | In the last game, 3 harsалоes later, I was thinking, we handle match points after you drop back… The mentality appeared in before the queue, on the third side. What is your age? | I mean in the last game of the first set I did, I got really tight. I think I just got nervous because I had so many break opportunities and I was always thinking maybe I should go for this shot or maybe I should wait and I never really did anything like with 100% conviction. So when I went back I just thought that I h... |
0416/0416-6-A.mp4 | Will there be any difficulty in the sense that you've shown that you really relish playing the biggest tournament? Would you have to prove that you can play that well at a smaller tournament? | I feel like I've already done that. I've had some of my best wins I played in China at the end of my year last year and had my best win in my career. So to me, playing on a small court, on a big court, I'm going to put the same thing out. I work as hard as I possibly can day to day and I'm looking forward to proving it... |
0301/0301-2-A.mp4 | Greg, Greg, we're expecting already, we do it, Andre. Can you take us through how that relationship started, who we approached to? | How the relationship? At some point last year, I think through the year, me and Dany sat down to talk about our goals, objectives and so on. I've known Andriy for a really long time. Since I think I was 14, I've spent some time with him back in the past in Vegas. We just wanted to kind of add a person that has done a l... |
0340/0340-7-A.mp4 | You didn't start here as the informed player, especially here coming into Melbourne. Now you seem like you're right up there as the number one player ready to fight, doing your thing. When did it change and when did you think you started feeling that way? Was it in your first round or was it today? I still don't feel i... | It's something natural on court. When I'm stepping on the court, I want to win the match, so everything I have in my head is that. And I just wait and see during the matches. I cannot say I'm going to win this match. I never said and I will never say. Every match is tough. Every opponent is working hard like me, so it'... |
0440/0440-5-A.mp4 | You had obviously many infos to date during this match. When it's going like this, it's a bad day at the office as we say. What do you feel? Do you try to change the things? What did you try today to maybe find back your timing? | I don't think I'm doing well. If I'm doing well, I believe I still can win the match if it's not my best day. But I don't think today I try a lot. I think this is probably not even just stay the, stay what I'm doing wrong thing until the end of the match. |
0076/0076-8-A.mp4 | If you weren't here playing tennis, what would you be doing instead? | I would definitely be in the office if this had saved me from that. I like to be outside. So I'm still making the transition of being indoors a lot. It's hard on me. |
0290/0290-6-A.mp4 | After the game today I spoke to the coach, Apostle of the City Pass, and he told me when he's coming to the draw, when they have the draw, it's a conference, you come into the third round and you play against Federer. Are you ready to make any preparation training special to play against Federer? I just didn't know muc... | I have a day tomorrow, so I'm going to work on it. I'm going to work on everything that I have to do to prepare for that match. I'm going to have to play my best, obviously, game that I've played this week to beat that player. Yeah, I'm going to have to work on a lot of things. Again, it was nice to have an experience ... |
0421/0421-4-A.mp4 | What's, I guess, the first thing that you sort of go right? This is what I need to do. | Yeah, I think as soon as I walked off the court and I saw my team, I said, I need to get so much fitter. Yeah. Yeah, that was what really hit me first was how, you know, well, she retrieved and yeah, as I said, she just makes you play an extra shot in each rally. And yeah, I mean, today was only I only I was six, one, ... |
0319/0319-5-A.mp4 | Rapper was one of those players who said he'd not been kind of consulted. Do you find that particularly worrying that, you know, they're not reaching out to the most experienced guys on the tour? And Rapper and Roger have both said they're quite keen to call a no-back and talk to him about it. Will you be trying to do ... | I was surprised that Rafa didn't know about it. That shows the situation and how difficult it is right now. As I said, a lot of things came out in the press. Now everybody is talking about it. We have the players meeting here. I think it's going to go in the right direction, at least for all the players to talk and to ... |
0016/0016-3-A.mp4 | Do you think that this here is here that you can break the dominance of Andy and Novak? | I hope so. Yeah, I think those two guys are still dominating the tour, like you see last year. But I hope I can sneak in there to beat Andy and Novak. And I mean, if I want to win a Grand Slam or Masters, I have to beat those two guys anyway. So yeah, it's going to be a big challenge for me. But I'm enjoying this chall... |
0157/0157-2-A.mp4 | Roger, you're playing Thomas next. Could you talk a bit about the match you played against him last year? Because I think most of us watching were surprised by how well you played and I'm unditiously surprised yourself that day as well. | Well, against Thomas, sometimes in the past, when I did play very well, things went my way. Same for him when he beat me on those occasions. He also played extremely well. I don't remember what I thought was going to happen in the third round. I just remember looking at the draw and thinking what a horror draw it is. B... |
0415/0415-13-A.mp4 | A lot of people say the popular ideas that the Russian players, players of Russian heritage are just really tough mentally, tough competitor. Many have said that. What are your thoughts on that perception? | I mean, I guess, but I mean, players here from every country are tough. I mean, look at all of these players like Petra today and Serena. So I don't really think it's specific country or Russian roots. I mean, there are so many Americans who fight really hard. So, yeah, I mean, I was born American. |
0297/0297-1-A.mp4 | What do you remember from that 2016 match that set the call? What do you recall of that occasion? | Well, to be honest, I remember playing well. And I remember the match more what I played against him at the Hopman Cup a couple of years ago. Because it was my, I think it was my first match back after the knee issue. So that was my first match. So, clearly, that was in some ways memorable. It was a first or second mat... |
0340/0340-10-A.mp4 | Coming into the tournament obviously with the number one ranking, do you feel like an extra sense of pressure on you to perform or does that kind of motivate you even more? | No pressure at all. As I said a few days ago, the ranking doesn't matter anymore. Many players are playing well. I finished two years number one, so it's not about the pressure. It's a positive thing that I am still number one and I'm trying just to enjoy it. It's nothing bad in this position. |
0396/0396-8-A.mp4 | Can you just repeat if it was, what did you feel like when that final point was won? | Yeah, so surreal. So many emotions running through my head. Yeah, so many emotions, just so much excitement and happiness. And yeah, I'm just so happy and excited to get to play again. |
0165/0165-3-A.mp4 | How do you go about trying to process this? You can take a couple of days off and then actually go back and look at it or leave it behind now and focus on the next. | Obviously, you know, it's hard to hide a disappointment. I am disappointed. It's how I feel. It hurts, and so it should. But yeah, right now, I probably won't think to rationalize info as that. I think it's good to give myself a couple of days, just to relax a little bit and do things that I don't get a chance to do du... |
0188/0188-3-A.mp4 | After dropping the first set, obviously it was a very tight one and you had your opportunities with the break points and couldn't get it done, but what were you telling yourself after the first set? Didn't look like you looked too stressed or panicked after the first set. | I was fine. Obviously the first set took me some energy, some power, but I had some chances. I didn't play well on them, which was those break points. The tyre breaker didn't play well, a little bit unlucky, so everything came together a little bit. But I think I could play definitely better at those moments. She didn'... |
0365/0365-11-A.mp4 | Who was more nervous at the end? You or Gail? | I think you've been in that kind of situations too, so I think we both have been pretty chilled, you know. |
0369/0369-9-A.mp4 | Do you make, do you request ever to play early? Do you like playing that first match? | Sometimes I do breakfast, but I didn't do this this time. So obviously, like, since Sydney, I played, like, later matches, but not this time. So I need to say that, like, before my match, I had a quick nap, like, five minutes by the physio room. And, yeah, it was kind of weird to wake up at 10.30 to be ready in half an... |
0152/0152-2-A.mp4 | I think you spoke after the match about having never finding yourself in this period in your career, six months out, and you talked about your nerves. How did you deal with the nerves? Because 23 minutes in, you've taken the first set, 6-1, you didn't appear nervous. | Well, I did have various emotions, mostly good ones, excitement, joy, just gratitude for being able to have an opportunity to compete. Because not a while ago, about three weeks ago, I didn't know whether I'm going to play Australia or not. So obviously, there was a lot of good emotions, and I was looking forward to ge... |
0028/0028-5-A.mp4 | Just last, have you got any concerns about your draw? Any players coming up? | No, you know, I just take every match one by one, you know, and it's already difficult when you're on the court. If you think about the next match, it's even more difficult, so I think it's important to stay focused on the present and the present moment. We can say that. One day at a time. Yeah, one day at a time. |
0266/0266-7-A.mp4 | It was difficult to keep the spiciness upload but I was satisfied. | I was conscious not to give a point at all. I was relaxed, but I was conscious of being focused. |
0060/0060-1-A.mp4 | Ines, it was quite the celebration for you. After match point, can you just kind of articulate what it means for you to be back in the semifinals? | Absolutely. To me, the semifinals is a stepping stone. Just like the other rounds, it's an opportunity to advance. The tournament is by no means over. It's definitely down to the business end. And I feel like I'm playing the kind of tennis I want to produce the results that I want. |
0306/0306-5-A.mp4 | Roger was talking a little bit about the new balls here earlier and he was kind of saying he thought it was difficult to kind of out spin people particularly late at night. I was just wondering what you'd made of playing with the balls on a night session tonight on a bit of a cooler evening and whether you were able to... | Well, the ball is big during the with colder conditions and especially during the night the ball is bigger and and yes, the ball is going a little bit more slow, no, not that high bounces that sometimes we used to have here but the ball is what it is and it's fair enough. It's a good quality ball so I can't complain ab... |
0436/0436-3-A.mp4 | Was there anything different about him today, if you can remember and compare it to those past matches? And was there anything you tried to do differently today from when you've played him in the past? | Of course every match is different. I told you before, the problem in this match was that Rafa plays very good and I couldn't continue his rhythm. I tried to play with my backhand to his forehand, trying to be very aggressive but Rafa plays with a lot of topspin and it's not easy to do with my backhand against these ba... |
0134/0134-6-A.mp4 | Do you see anything when you were hitting against him that you thought he might be able to bring into your match tonight? Was that just totally surprising? | I mean, I was not entirely surprised. I knew he's gonna play well again because I You come out here and you just play your match basically and again has nothing to lose Already won four matches out of here three qualities So his first match also a little bit so just also he builds of confidence as well I mean any playe... |
0417/0417-6-A.mp4 | You took Mildonium legally for 10 years to deal with your health problems. I wanted to know that it's banned and you can no longer take it. Is it a struggle physically to deal with it, the demands of a Grand Slam Fortnight? | Is there another question? |
0315/0315-5-A.mp4 | What's your cut now? Um, just got a... | evaluate where I'm at. I have to have a checkup done on my knee and then see what's sort of in the schedule for the next few weeks. I'm not sure if I can play the Davis Cup switching surfaces for one week, but I'm going to sort of take the next 24 hours to make that decision and then it would be to play indoors and rot... |
0180/0180-11-A.mp4 | With Pliscova and Stratsova obviously they play two very different styles. Yeah, very different. Do you have any, I mean you've played a lot of power players coming into the now the quarter finals. Is it, I mean would you rather play at Pliscova or would you, I mean Stratsova is tricky, what do you think? | Well, both of them are very tough. Even if I played with big hitters this tournament, Pliškova is always dangerous and she's playing great these days. I'm used to her. I played in Thailand as well, but like I said, it's going to be a new match. You never know what is going to happen. With Stryková, I played a few times... |
0371/0371-4-A.mp4 | You got injured last year in Miami. I'm just curious after having a really good annual health especially how that set back. That helped in the long run giving you time to work more if it was frustrating and your momentum broken and how it affected you coming up to now. | That was definitely frustrating because I was playing really well at the time and then I had to get back to where I was so it was definitely hard but you know it's I don't know. I took some time to think about a lot of things and then the year was pretty up and down but this year I came out with a lot more confidence a... |
0257/0257-5-A.mp4 | Along those lines a little bit Dennis, what's the difference in how your brain is wrapping itself around playing those top guys now as opposed to a year and a half ago when they may have seen so many levels above you? | I think probably two years ago, I was just happy to be on the court with them, get a couple of games. Now, I'm thinking, you know, how am I going to give a fight to this guy? You know, how am I going to win sets and potentially even the match? And I feel like if I do play a good tennis, my best level, I'll definitely b... |
0250/0250-5-A.mp4 | We'll continue looking past, like, the just pointing up tonight and see how great two weeks you've had. | Well, about the tournament, I'm very happy. The way I played and the way I got into this tournament and this beginning of the year, I think was the best start possible. It gives me a lot of confidence for the rest of the year and for the next couple of tournaments coming very soon with Montpellier in 10 days. Yeah, I'm... |
0404/0404-3-A.mp4 | Naomi's return on your second serve. She was stepping in pretty much in the baseline. How were you, did you feel that pressure or comfortable for you when you had your second serves? | I was expecting this because I played against her maybe four or five times already, so I knew what to expect. But when I cannot do 100%, you know, she's a top player. And when you give her this chance, obviously, she's going to take it, and all the top players are going to take it. So, you know, it's very disappointed ... |
0289/0289-2-A.mp4 | On that point I remember you kind of saying at Wimbledon that you'd been watching the Federer-Sampras match two or three times on your way to the fourth round. Is that a match you watch every slam or do you just watch them caught by surface? Were you just watching that at Wimbledon or have you been watching that here a... | I haven't watched that match here in Melbourne yet. But actually, that was fourth round as well. That's crazy. What a coincidence. Yeah, I did watch that match when I was playing Wimbledon, Grasscourts. I did watch a couple of his matches in the past that he played on Hardcourts. I watched a few highlights of him on th... |