'It means the world' - Popyrin ends 21-year Aussie drought with Canadian Open title
Alexei Popyrin becomes the first Australian since Lleyton Hewitt in 2003 to win an ATP Masters 1000 title
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00:00It means so much. It means the world. All the hard work that I've put in over the last
00:06few years, all the sacrifices I've made, not just me but my family, my girlfriend, my team,
00:12everybody around me, they've just sacrificed their whole lives for me and for me to win
00:17this for them is just amazing. I don't remember what happened on match point, I don't know
00:22if I made my first serve or not, but I think I did and hit a pretty solid forehand to win
00:27and for me that's my thought process through the whole tournament. When I saved the three
00:33match points, I just kind of looked at them as break points, not match points and just
00:37focused on what I had to do on my serve because they were on my serve and it came through.
00:41Manny, congratulations.
00:42Thank you very much.