Tennis - US Open 2024 - Carlos Alcaraz : "Jannik Sinner is declared innocent, I stand by that"
Le nom de Jannik Sinner est sur toutes les langues à l'US Open. L'Italien est au coeur des discussions depuis mardi. Le numéro 1 mondial avait été testé positif au stéroïde anabolisant Clostebol à deux reprises en mars dernier, mais a été blanchi. En effet, selon un tribunal indépendant, il y a une "absence de faute ou de négligence" de la part de Sinner, car la substance interdite, présente en faible quantité, provient d'un spray utilisé par son kiné. Son rival, Carlos Alcaraz, n'a pas échappé à une question à ce sujet lors de sa conférence de presse.
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00:00I think it is great. I just stopped my practice just for precaution. I didn't feel comfortable
00:14enough to keep practicing just in case if everything is going to be worse. But after
00:24a few hours later I am still feeling good on my feet. So tomorrow I will try to be practicing
00:35again 100% without thinking about it. But today I will take care about it.
00:43What about your game makes you so tough for your opponents?
01:00Well I think I am always pushing my opponents to the limit. I am trying to be aggressive
01:13all the time, just to play different shots, different kind of shots. I think the worst
01:27thing for my opponents is that they are not going to know what is going to be next. They
01:35have to be aggressive, they have to defend well if they want to be alive in the point.
01:44I think I am going to say that. That is the worst thing for my opponents about my game.
01:57You haven't had a lot of matches on the hard courts coming into here. How, if at all, does
02:05that affect you and do you come into a tournament like this not knowing maybe how well you can
02:14play, how you will do or that doesn't really matter for you?
02:18It doesn't matter for me. Obviously I would have loved to have more matches in my belt
02:26on the hard court before the youth open. But it doesn't affect me at all. If I look back
02:37a little bit, for example facing the Roland Garros, I hadn't too many matches on clay
02:45and it was a pretty good result. In Wimbledon, the same thing. I don't want to think that
02:57it's going to be the same as the previous Grand Slams, but I am not worried about not
03:04having too many matches on the hard court.
03:07You are still very early in your career. There haven't been many big lows, never lost a Grand
03:16Slam final, only one five-set match lost in your career. I just wondered, that defeat
03:21at the Olympics, was that the lowest you felt after a defeat? How were those emotions and
03:26were they new for you?
03:29After the Olympics? It was one of the most important finals of my career, of my life.
03:39I know that the Olympics game is every four years. I don't know if I'm going to have another
03:46chance to win the gold. I'm going to fight for it, for sure, the next Olympics games.
03:52It was a difficult moment to deal with for me, losing the gold medal in a really close
04:00match that I had opportunities. But in front of me I had a really good player, he was fighting
04:10for the same thing as me and he deserved it. So after the days after the Olympics, I realised
04:19that I won the silver medal. It was a great achievement for me that I have to be proud
04:26of. I try to keep going, try to learn about this match, the next finals or the next important
04:38matches of my career are going to deal in a different way or a better way than I did
04:44in the Olympics. But I realised that it was an important moment of my life.
04:53Willi Weinbaum from ESPN. Carlos, what are your thoughts about Janik's drug situation?
05:01Well, it's a really difficult moment for him, that's for sure. It is complicated. I'm not
05:14going to lie, it is complicated. But obviously, in English it's going to be difficult for
05:23me to explain myself, but I'll try. Well, I believe in a clean sport, so I don't know
05:34too much about that. I'm pretty sure there are a lot of things that we don't know inside
05:43the team or inside everything. But if they let Janik keep playing, it's for something.
06:00They said he's innocent, so that's all I know and that's all I can talk about.
06:08Last one in English, anyone?
06:10David Cain from tennis.com. Just going back to the injury in practice, when it first happened,
06:17were you nervous? Were you scared that maybe you wouldn't be able to play the US Open?
06:21What was the initial reaction when you hurt yourself today?
06:24Well, I wasn't worried at all for my US Open participation. Obviously, I was angry because
06:32I didn't want to stop the practice, just to respect Ferundolo as well. For me, I didn't
06:45want to stop any practice. I wanted to practice, I wanted to get better, I wanted to get ready
06:52for the tournament. But honestly, with the ankle, I wasn't worried about that. I'm sure
07:01that tomorrow or in two days, I'm going to be 100 per cent for sure. It's about time.