Un nouveau vainqueur a été sacré à Roland-Garros, ce dimanche 9 juin 2024. C'est Carlos Alcaraz qui a un inscrit son nom au si prestigieux palmarès du Grand Chelem parisien en domptant Alexander Zverev, 6-3, 2-6, 5-7, 6-1, 6-2, en 4h19. Une fin frustrante pour l'Allemand qui devra encore attendre pour un premier titre du Grand Chelem. Celle-là sera sans doute difficile à digérer pour le joueur de 27 ans...
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00:00 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:02 Hey, Sascha.
00:05 Tough luck today.
00:07 Can you sort of compare the experience of this Grand Slam
00:11 final with the last one and how you're feeling now compared
00:15 with that loss?
00:17 And do you sense you've made a good bit of progress?
00:23 Yeah, I mean, look, I feel like I did everything I could today.
00:29 The fifth set, fuck, there was some unlucky moments.
00:32 I heard that at 2-1, the second serve was out from the Hawkeye
00:38 data.
00:39 I saw that.
00:40 So I break back there.
00:42 I break chances.
00:43 Then in the next service game, a fifth set can go the other way.
00:48 But it is what it is.
00:51 Look, he played fantastic.
00:54 He played better than me the fourth and fifth set.
00:57 And it's how it is.
01:00 I mean, I felt like this Grand Slam final, I did everything I could.
01:04 At the US Open, I kind of gave it away myself.
01:06 So it's a bit different.
01:10 In the fourth set, did you hit the wall a little bit physically?
01:13 Did you feel any of your energy levels dropping?
01:16 Yeah, I lost focus.
01:18 And all of a sudden on my serve, I didn't get the power from my legs anymore.
01:24 It was weird because normally I do not get tired.
01:29 I don't cramp.
01:32 I don't get tired normally.
01:35 But again, against Carlos, it's a different intensity.
01:38 So maybe that was the case a bit.
01:40 But maybe I have to look at my preparation.
01:44 Maybe I have to look at how I do things on a physical base as well.
01:50 Of course, I felt like from the tennis level, I was playing decent.
01:55 And he was playing decent for three sets.
01:57 And then I dropped a lot.
02:00 Sascha, you mentioned it, the second serve at 1-1.
02:09 How frustrating is it that there won't be electronic line calling here until next year?
02:13 Otherwise, if this was next year, you'd have won that game.
02:17 I know it's probably not much consolation.
02:19 But did it distract you at all in the coming points?
02:23 Or were you able to put it out of your mind?
02:26 Look, there's a difference whether you're down 3-1 in the fifth set or you're back to 2-0.
02:30 That's a deciding difference.
02:33 Yeah, it's frustrating in the end.
02:38 But it is what it is.
02:39 Umpires make mistakes.
02:40 They're also human.
02:42 And that's OK.
02:45 But of course, in a situation like that, you wish there wouldn't be mistakes.
02:50 Tough result.
02:56 I just wondered what next week will hold for you.
02:59 How do you start to move on from this?
03:03 Will you watch any tennis?
03:05 Will you just cut yourself off?
03:06 What does next week hold, do you think?
03:09 Right this second, I'm still in the draw on Stuttgart.
03:13 Right, yeah.
03:15 Are you going to play that?
03:16 We will strongly see about that.
03:19 Yeah.
03:20 And if you don't, what do you think you'll do instead?
03:24 Well, look, I don't know yet.
03:29 The chances of me playing Stuttgart are...
03:35 close to the chances of me going back out there and winning the final now.
03:40 Repeating the time.
03:43 But we'll see.
03:46 I'll probably...
03:48 I have a thing with FloorBank tomorrow in Switzerland that I'll go to.
03:55 And then I'll probably fly to Berlin,
03:59 because I have a very important person I want to see there,
04:04 which I always do after tournaments.
04:07 And then we'll see.
04:10 I guess you may be in favour of electronic calls in the future.
04:18 After today?
04:19 Even on clay.
04:20 But apart from that, how do you explain Alcaraz won 11 times out of 12
04:28 when he played the fifth set?
04:29 I had a similar statistic before today here in the French Open.
04:34 We are 23-11.
04:37 No, at the French Open I think I was like 10-1 or something like that.
04:42 We're both physically strong, but he's a beast, he's an animal for sure.
04:49 And the intensity that he plays tennis at is different to what other people.
04:53 He can do so many different things.
04:57 I think he changed his tactic a lot in the fifth set,
05:00 started to play a lot higher, a lot deeper,
05:02 for me to not create as much power.
05:05 Especially with the shadows on the court, it was slower again.
05:09 But he's a fantastic player and physically he's fantastic.
05:14 So I have to look at myself and I have to look at the team that I have
05:19 and see what I can do to become at the same level.
05:24 (upbeat music)
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