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You're not asking. Yeah. No, everyone
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will have to be quick. So, we go
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straight into questions. Three, four in
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English.
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Congratulations. Did you have the
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souvenir of making so many drop shot in
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one game?
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Did you ever remind that or? Well, maybe
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against Rafa, I don't know. uh played
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too many matches to remember to be
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honest. But
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uh yeah, I mean against the wind
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especially that side where I was uh you
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know playing the last game I felt that
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the wind increased the last few games.
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So I mean from that end was was almost
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playing against two players. you know,
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you feel like ball is not going
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anywhere. You're hitting it.
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But, you know, obviously people don't
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see that on the on the TV, but it's on
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the court. You can feel it a lot. And
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yeah, it was just trying to trying to
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mix it up at one point, you know, I feel
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like I couldn't go through him. So, then
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I I try to bring him to the net. I try
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to risk it, you know, with the drop
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shot, serve and volley. I mean, I had to
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he had to be done. I mean, I was
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obviously tense, you know, to finish off
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the match. And I think he just uh was
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playing consistent from the back of the
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court the last game. He was not making
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errors and he was making me work. So
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yeah, it was uh an amazing match.
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Obviously be beating uh one of the best
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players in the world on the biggest
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stage is is something that uh you know I
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definitely work for and I still you know
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push myself on a daily basis at this age
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to keep going because of these kind of
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matches because of these kind of
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experiences and you know it's a proof
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and kind of testament to myself that I
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can and to others that I can still play
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on the highest level you know and uh
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yeah it's it's a great obviously a great
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feeling and and I'm trying to enjoy it.
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Hey, well played, great match. Um, a a
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few weeks ago you were kind of in a room
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like this in in Madrid talking about how
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obviously after your losses it was a new
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reality for you and you mentioned like
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it's the circle of life of your career.
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Um, I'm curious, I'm sure there are a
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lot of doubts there, right? And and it
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was a difficult moment. So, how
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satisfied are you with the way you've
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kind of bounced back from that and and
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found a way to play at such a high level
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as you did today? Well, I mean, I was
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saying that because, you know, I mean,
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if you look at the results, uh, I've had
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this year. I mean, multiple first round,
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first match losses at the big
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tournaments, uh, masters events
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tournaments. So of course
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that's you know wasn't a great feeling
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but you know it's something that I
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haven't experienced for you know many
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years 20 years that I've been playing
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and that's why I said you know in a way
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I have to find you know try to find a
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way to to bounce back at the grand slam
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you know it's no secret I mean it's been
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like that for years but especially now
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it's all about grand slams for me trying
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to you know raise the level and uh play
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my best tennis uh at this at this four
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tournaments and this is what I've been
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managing to do. You know, I think the
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win against Alcaras in quarters of
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Australian Open, the win quarters
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against Verv tonight, you know, proves
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to myself and others that I can still
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play on a high highest level and um and
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I just thrive on these occasions. You
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know, this is where I kind of lock in
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and really give my
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best. So yeah, I just hope that
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uh I I will be able to
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physically uh keep up, you know, with
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sinner in a few days time. It's a big
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challenge for me. It's only going to get
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tougher, but uh it's it's good. It is it
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is uh how it's supposed to be, you know,
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at the the highest Grand Slam level. Now
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back as a sort of follow on to that, how
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much of this has also been a result of
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winning the 100th title and uh like a
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ton of bricks off your shoulders uh with
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that and then if you could also look
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ahead to to playing Yanik.
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Well, I mean it definitely helped uh my
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confidence level, you know, and my game
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uh in terms of, you know, obviously
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getting higher confidence level reflects
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positively on the game and then, you
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know, you start playing better as as you
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go along, which is logical to expect if
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you start winning. Uh I I I still think
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I believe that my game would still be
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good even if I didn't play Geneva and I
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came directly here because I just as I
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said thrive on grand slams and managed
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to play the best tennis always. Uh but
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nevertheless you know it was good
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decision to go to Geneva. So of course
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the hundth win and the way I won the
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tournament definitely helped me mentally
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approach Roland Garos in a better way.
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and and Yanik well I mean Yanik is in a
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tremendous form and he has been the best
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player for for the last couple of years
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uh deservely I mean he's been playing
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some terrific tennis attacking tennis
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and you know just super super strong
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from every aspect of his game
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so I haven't played him now in some
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quite some time uh and uh you know we
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always had some exciting matches. Uh at
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one point I think we played maybe three
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four matches with in a very short amount
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of time on hardcourt, but I don't think
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uh I don't think we played maybe once I
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think on clay in Monte Carlo years ago.
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So um yeah, it's it's going to be of
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course semi-finals of a grand slam
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against number one in the world. Uh
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there's no bigger occasion for me. So
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I'll try to do my best to step it up and
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and perform as well as I did tonight. We
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can take the last one. No,
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congratulations. Uh just wondering Yanix
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putting up some really lopsided score
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lines in his previous rounds and you've
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obviously run into you had a long
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career. You've run into many players who
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are sort of on fire. Do you do you have
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a a basic way you know how to how to
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stop someone who's a sort of runaway
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train when you're playing someone who's
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who's that kind of level uh running away
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from the field? how to how to reel them
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in. I mean,
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uh, yes and no, I guess. I mean, I it
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really depends on on the given day and
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how you feel on the court. And, uh, I
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know what to expect from Yanik. You
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know, he's going to come out. He's going
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to, you know, play on on a very high
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level as he did basically every
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tournament that he played in the last
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year and a half. And, uh, I don't expect
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anything less from him. So uh you know
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but this kind of matchups and challenges
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um in a way extract the the the best out
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of me. You know I I playing best of five
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semi you know light late stages of a
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grand slam against number one in the
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world is the you know you can't get more
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motivated than that you know for me at
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this age. So uh that that's how I see it
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now. Uh how am I going to stop him? I
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don't think about that. I think about
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how am how am I going to execute what I
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want on the court and feel how I want to
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feel. So that's where my thoughts are
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going. And uh of course I'm going to sit
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with my team tomorrow and think about
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it, work on the practice court a little
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bit on specifics that will be
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um that will be the case when I play
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Yanik. So uh you know I'll do my best to
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to get ready. Okay.