Daniil Medvedev a désormais atteint de trois des quatre tournois du Grand Chelem, Melbourne, New-York et maintenant Wimbledon. Ce mercredi, le Russe a trouvé la clé pour faire exploser son surprenant adversaire, Christopher Eubanks, et l'emporter 6-4, 1-6, 4-6, 7-6(4), 6-1. Dans les deux derniers sets, Medvedev n'a perdu que quatre points derrière sa première balle et a joué parfaitement juste. Notons que le 3e mondial n'a commis que 13 fautes en cinq sets. Le Russe jouera sa sixième demi-finale en Grand Chelem et donc la première à Wimbledon. Il tentera de décrocher une cinquième finale en Grand Chelem. Il faudra faire chuter Carlos Alcaraz. Un défi de taille...
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00:00 I'm feeling great right now.
00:01 It was a very tough match at one moment, really close to losing.
00:05 But I'm happy that I managed to put myself back together.
00:10 There was a moment in the match where I started losing everything,
00:14 the focus, the momentum of the match,
00:17 which can happen, of course, at this level.
00:19 Chris played well.
00:20 I'm happy that I managed to put it back together
00:23 and step it up to be able to win.
00:25 I'm really happy and looking forward to the next match.
00:29 Neil, how would you describe,
00:33 now that you're in your first Wimbledon semi-final,
00:36 your career journey to get to this point?
00:39 I don't know, actually,
00:43 because I thought about this today during the match, honestly.
00:48 When I started losing it, I was like,
00:51 "OK, what's happening? Why is it happening like this?"
00:54 Then I went, in my career, I was able to do a lot of big things,
01:00 which probably four or five years ago,
01:04 I didn't think I would be able to do.
01:05 That's when I was like,
01:08 "OK, I need to try to turn this match around
01:10 and to do like I did many times
01:13 to win these tough battles at the Grand Slam."
01:16 I would say that this Wimbledon semi-final
01:22 is honestly not that much about my career past before.
01:26 It's about I managed to step up my game so far during this tournament.
01:31 Before the tournament, I was not feeling well with my tennis.
01:34 First round, I was not feeling well.
01:36 Starting from the second round, it was only getting better and better.
01:40 As I said, today was a small moment
01:43 where I lost everything I was building until this moment,
01:47 but I managed to bring it back and maybe even go a step further.
01:51 I hope I can do it also in the semis.
01:53 Hi, Neil Spires from the Express.
01:57 When you're talking about the tough moments in the match,
02:00 you had that code violation there.
02:02 What was your take on that?
02:04 Also, was there any moment in your head
02:07 where you thought disqualification might be an issue?
02:10 I didn't do anything for this.
02:14 Yes, what happened, I for sure started losing a little bit frustrated.
02:21 There were some balls.
02:22 I almost was there and I saw I was not there.
02:26 I was trying to lean and the ball went in the ground.
02:29 I was like, "The referee is probably going to start talking to me."
02:32 Actually, the last one where I got a code,
02:35 I didn't want to do what happened to the ball
02:38 because it was actually a little bit dangerous.
02:40 I wanted to kind of chip it.
02:44 It goes over the net and it dropped.
02:47 It didn't bounce as it should be.
02:50 The ball was going like this and I was like, "Oh my God."
02:52 That was very unlucky.
02:55 But at the end, nothing happened.
02:57 That's why I was actually surprised about the code
03:00 because I can understand if something would happen.
03:03 I don't know, but finally nothing happened.
03:07 You cannot normally give me a code,
03:09 but we had a chat with Empire afterwards.
03:11 I think we were both wrong.
03:13 I was wrong with my emotions.
03:15 He was maybe in something else, but that's a question to him.
03:19 In general, it was a little bit of an unlucky situation
03:22 where nothing happened, so we moved on.
03:25 Did it hit the camera then?
03:27 It did.
03:28 I saw that what I saw hit the wall.
03:33 The wall is fine.
03:48 For a long time in that match,
03:49 so far back, you were maybe going to take a seat in the chair.
03:55 He kept hitting the serves and then the drop shots.
03:59 I think a lot of people were wondering,
04:02 "How long is this going to go on for?"
04:04 It went on for a really long time.
04:06 I'm just curious why you waited so long
04:08 before you then moved about 10 feet forward.
04:12 First of all, because the first set,
04:14 I was putting pressure on him every game.
04:18 I think every game was deuce.
04:19 I had a break point after I won his serve,
04:23 after I broke him already.
04:25 I felt like against Chris,
04:28 some of the players, they couldn't break him,
04:29 no matter standing close or far.
04:31 I was like, "I think I'm doing the right thing.
04:33 It's just I have to execute it better."
04:35 At one moment in the match, I was like,
04:37 "Okay, I have to try to change something
04:40 because I think second and third set,
04:42 I didn't have a break point."
04:43 That's when I was like,
04:45 "Okay, I have to try to change something
04:48 and see if it goes better."
04:49 I straightaway saw that it was putting
04:52 a little bit maybe more pressure on him,
04:54 so I just continued doing it.
04:56 I always said that I try to see in the match
04:59 what works and what doesn't.
05:01 Until I started doing it,
05:03 I still thought that it's going to work
05:05 the way it was.
05:06 At the moment where I thought it might not,
05:09 I changed it.
05:10 Daniel, Dan King from The Sun.
05:14 It was obvious today that the crowd
05:15 were backing him more than you,
05:18 but then after the match,
05:19 you got a really big ovation as well.
05:21 Because of everything that's going on elsewhere,
05:24 how pleased have you been that the crowd
05:26 have been fair?
05:28 Have you felt that the crowd have been fair to you
05:29 and indeed to the other Russian
05:31 and Belarusian players and just supported you
05:33 and appreciated you and not got on your backs?
05:36 I actually don't know about others
05:37 because I didn't see many of them play.
05:42 I saw Andrei against Novak.
05:43 I think the crowd was great.
05:45 I didn't see Arina play a lot.
05:46 I actually saw, but with no sound.
05:49 So I don't know.
05:50 But about me, I said after the first match,
05:52 the crowd is amazing.
05:53 I felt today that they were backing him.
05:56 Why? I don't know.
05:57 Maybe his tennis, maybe his underdog,
06:00 maybe something else.
06:01 But again, till all the matches,
06:04 till the quarterfinal, they were amazing.
06:06 And as you say today,
06:07 they were backing him a little bit more.
06:09 But same when it was two sets to one.
06:12 I was two sets to one down.
06:13 I was like, OK, what I was talking,
06:15 I'm down now.
06:16 Let's see if they support me.
06:17 And I actually felt more support,
06:19 as I said in the previous match.
06:22 So it's been amazing.
06:24 It's been amazing.
06:25 Let's see how it is on centre court,
06:27 because so far I have been playing only on court one.
06:29 I think it's going to be the same.
06:31 It's going to be amazing to play Carlos next.
06:34 Daniel, Sebastian Marella for Clay.
06:37 Have you been able to study Carlos Alcadaz
06:42 during this time?
06:43 What are you taking from that match in the USA?
06:48 Yeah, I think Indian Wells is not going to count a lot here.
06:51 Such difference, so slow Indian Wells.
06:54 So, I mean, it's not going to be the same on Wimbledon.
06:58 The ball bounces lower,
07:00 the serve is more important.
07:02 Where there, I felt like I couldn't get three points with the serve.
07:05 I saw some of his matches.
07:07 I saw a little bit against Mateo.
07:09 And did I see anything else?
07:11 I'm not sure, actually.
07:13 But I saw a little bit against Mateo.
07:14 For sure, I'm going to discuss tactically with my coach.
07:18 But it's interesting to play someone like Carlos.
07:21 I mean, he's an amazing, amazing player.
07:23 He's still 19, right?
07:25 So what he continues to do is just unbelievable.
07:31 He doesn't stop.
07:32 And I don't think he will.
07:33 But I played a lot of great players in my career
07:36 and I managed to win many times.
07:39 So I'm going to try to do my best.
07:42 And if I show my best, I'll have my chances.
07:43 Just to kind of follow up on that,
07:47 what about Carlos is most impressive to you?
07:50 I think the power and if when he was 17,
07:55 which was actually not long ago,
07:57 but he was much less mature and younger, which is normal.
08:00 He was missing.
08:03 So everyone was kind of wondering, everyone saw that he's amazing.
08:06 But everyone was wondering,
08:08 is he going to find a way to miss less, producing the same power?
08:11 And he did quite fast.
08:13 And so that's what's pretty amazing, you know, because,
08:16 yeah, you know, with him, if you give him one easy shot,
08:20 you can be in trouble.
08:21 Maybe big, big, big chances you're going to get a winner,
08:25 even with, let's say, in my opinion,
08:28 with Novak or Andy, even Rafa,
08:32 you kind of feel like you can have a chance to get this shot.
08:36 But then the thing is that they're going to have 20 more.
08:39 With Carlos, maybe you're not going to get this one.
08:42 It's one shot sometimes is brutal.
08:46 And I think that's what's the most powerful in his game.
08:51 And that's what I will have to try to deal with.
08:54 Hey Daniel, you've talked obviously a lot this year about
08:59 adapting your game to clay and now adapting to grass.
09:03 I'm wondering, obviously, you've won Rome.
09:06 And here, your first one was in the semi-final, which is a huge deal.
09:11 Is there any kind of common thread from the two services
09:15 and the way you've been able to perform better on both this year?
09:17 On clay, for sure, I found something, let's say, adapted a lot.
09:22 And I found something, especially in the movement.
09:24 And again, for sure, Rome was amazing.
09:28 But even Roland-Garros and other losses, which was Madrid and Monte Carlo,
09:32 I played good.
09:34 It's just my opponents were better.
09:36 So I felt like I didn't have this feeling where,
09:39 you know, my God, clay, I cannot win a match.
09:42 I actually felt like I played well, just a little bit luck here and there.
09:45 And still not my favorite surface.
09:48 So you can beat me there.
09:49 And here, I would say I managed to
09:54 to find the rhythm, which on grass, I feel like you have to adapt less.
10:00 In a way, you just have to serve well and try to return
10:03 and make one break a set, which sounds easy, but it's not
10:07 because your opponent is trying to do the same.
10:09 And I managed to find this rhythm, which I rarely had on grass
10:14 because the bounces sometimes go through the court.
10:18 So you're going to be late on the swing.
10:20 And I managed to find it so far.
10:22 So hopefully I can keep it for two more matches.
10:24 Another thing is that after three sets, you, according to the stats,
10:32 you may not agree with them, but you had only five unforced errors.
10:35 And Krius, what it feels like to be losing?
10:37 I think I saw the stats after the match.
10:39 I was like, wow, I felt like at one moment in the match,
10:42 I was just missing in a way and it doesn't show in the stats.
10:46 So first of all, depends who made the stats, you know, maybe
10:48 maybe they were wrong, but it's also possible that the way Kris plays,
10:54 it's actually tough to do an unforced error because he's hitting so strong.
10:58 So that when you miss, it's probably a lot of the times a forced error.
11:02 So when I saw after the match, I was like, how did it go to five sets?
11:05 I have 39 unforced errors.
11:06 And if it's always a question, do they have double faults there?
11:10 If they did, I have like, I don't know, five maybe.
11:13 But it's true that maybe, yeah, the
11:16 the way he hit through the ball counted to that.
11:22 But what I saw is that I managed to step up my serve in the fourth set.
11:25 That's what I was missing in second and third.
11:27 And that was a key.
11:29 I actually saw I lost two to two points on the serve in fourth set
11:33 and one of them on the tiebreak.
11:35 And that's big.
11:35 That puts a lot of pressure on your opponent.
11:37 And that's very important on grass.
11:39 Obviously, you were allowed to play last year.
11:45 Does that give you additional motivation to try and do well
11:51 and try and win this tournament this year?
11:53 And also, I would just like to ask you straight straight out.
11:56 Do you like the grass now?
11:59 Let's wait for two more matches.
12:01 I like it definitely more than before,
12:05 but I want to try to go all the way and then you can ask me again.
12:10 And about last year, not really, honestly, I always said I want to be here.
12:17 I want to play.
12:18 I mean, Wimbledon is an amazing tournament and I want to do well here
12:22 because it was my worst Grand Slam fourth round.
12:25 Never managed to get into the flow here to make it click.
12:30 And so I was just disappointed last year that I didn't have this opportunity
12:34 to try, you know, to prove to myself that I can go far in Wimbledon,
12:37 which is an iconic tournament.
12:40 And so that's why I was really motivated this year.
12:42 Not especially for a long time, not playing well on Grand Slams.
12:46 I was like, I want to do well here.
12:48 I want to try.
12:49 It's not going to be easy.
12:51 I sometimes try to put less pressure on myself,
12:54 and I feel like it's good.
12:56 But this time I kind of put more pressure on myself before the tournament.
12:59 I was like, I have to do well here.
13:02 And sometimes it's tricky because by putting more pressure,
13:06 you become more vulnerable, especially if you yourself put pressure.
13:11 But I managed to do it, so I'm happy so far.
13:14 But I'm going to put even more pressure for next two matches.