“How do you are feeling after your two finals in Madrid and Rome?
I’m very completely satisfied to be again right here. I had good ends in Madrid and Rome (final)so I come right here actually assured.
How do you have a look at enjoying with Iga Swiatek, who nicely, and who completed the season on clay and who feels good at Roland-Garros (three titles)?
I do not concentrate on that, I concentrate on myself, on my targets: to get higher in order that I’ve an opportunity to beat him on clay, and particularly right here. He’s clearly had nice outcomes at Roland-Garros, so it is an additional problem. It really motivates me quite a bit, it pushes me to struggle on the sector.
“These video games (towards Swiatek) allowed me to have a look at the place I can do higher”
Do you suppose your rivalry with Iga Swiatek will go down in tennis historical past?
This rivalry we now have with Iga is excellent. We also can say that Elena (Rybakina) or Coco (gauff). It’s not simply the 2 of us. He motivates me to be higher and enhance many issues in my recreation due to our conferences. These video games allowed me to see the place I might do higher.
It’s arduous to say that the rivalry we now have proper now is the same as different legends. Maybe on the finish of my profession I’ll look again and say ‘possibly we had that rival too’. But as we speak, I simply hope that we will proceed to play good video games towards one another, in order that we will proceed to boost our stage to provide the perfect recreation, for us and for the viewers. I’m already grateful to be certainly one of these greatest athletes.
She will meet Erika Andreeva (19 years outdated, 101 on this planet) within the first spherical. What are your ideas in your opponent?
I by no means performed towards him. I simply met her sister (Mirra Andreeva, 17, within the quarter-finals this yr in Madrid). I nonetheless have to observe a few of his video games to know extra about how he performs. He could be very younger and already enjoying tennis at a excessive stage so I am unable to wait to satisfy him. »