Tennis - US Open 2024 - Taylor Fritz : "It is a bit more open. I don't think you have to play unbelievable to go deep in tournaments"
Taylor Fritz a brillé durant cet US Open 2024. Mais cela n'a pas suffi à soulever son premier titre Grand Chelem. Soutenu par le public du Central new-yorkais, l'Américain n'a rien pu faire dimanche soir pour empêcher le numéro 1 mondial Jannik Sinner de remporter son deuxième Majeur, le tout premier aux Etats-Unis (6-3, 6-4, 7-5). Malgré un break d'avance dans l'ultime manche, Fritz a été incapable de tenir la cadence et d'amorcer une remontada. Brillant pendant quinze jours, Fritz était tout de même touché après sa défaite, conscient qu'il s'agissait de la plus belle opportunité de sa vie jusqu'à maintenant. Aura-t-il une nouvelle chance de gagner un titre du Grand Chelem ? Andy Roddick reste donc le dernier vainqueur américain de l'US Open. C'était en 2003.
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00:00Yeah, it was a it was a really tough match for me I think I had a
00:10You know a plan of what I wanted to do going out but a lot of I
00:16mean some parts of it I did well and a lot of parts of it I
00:21I didn't
00:23Definitely didn't I guess hit the ball as
00:26As well as well as I expected to and that's something that's big if I wanted to just
00:31you know go back and forth and ball strike with him because he's
00:35such a such an amazing ball striker and
00:40Yeah, I feel like I
00:43Served improved the serve a lot in the second set the first set my service was really struggling and then
00:49Third set started to kind of put it together a bit more with just hitting the ball hitting hitting my forehand a little bit better
00:56put myself put myself in a good position to win the third but
01:01Just I mean he played he played a good game when I I went to serve it out
01:06but
01:07Yeah, I mean that's kind of just how it goes when you're I mean I'm playing the you know
01:12He's the best best player in the world right now
01:15my plan
01:17My plan he's not working the the plan B that I fall back on
01:23you know would normally be just like
01:26Bringing everything in being a little bit safer
01:30Grinding it out and that you know that works along with my serve against some other you know
01:36a lot of other players, but I guess him when I tried to kind of
01:41Bring it down not be as aggressive then. He's just gonna
01:44He's gonna bully me a little bit too much, so I you know it was tough that I guess my
01:51Plan a wasn't wasn't really working for me until like you know the third set I started to kind of get it going
01:57Thank you one question each
02:01Brian
02:05Cheers from I mean when you play such an emotional and long semifinal
02:11I'm curious to Friday have any impact on today, and if so was it more
02:16Physical and like you was it more emotional having to I I don't really think I
02:23Don't really think it had too much of an impact. I think my body didn't feel like amazing maybe yesterday, but I
02:30mean like we're in the
02:32We're six matches in it's the finals of slam like I don't really expect to be feeling like
02:38Fresh you know I saw you know all things considered. I think my body felt felt fine and mentally. I think honestly
02:45I thought it was a good thing I
02:47was
02:49Very I guess nervous going into the semifinal and I didn't feel anywhere
02:55Near as nervous going into to this match as as I did in the semis, so I thought emotionally
03:03You know it's obviously the US Open final. I want to win. It's it's it's a it's a really big moment, but I
03:11Felt like
03:12emotionally I was gonna be okay because I
03:16Knew it wasn't gonna be as bad as I was before my semi-final match, and I found a way to get through that
03:22Troy
03:25Francis any other day how different it feels now
03:27How much more open it feels and that this tournament has really like reinforced that I just wondered
03:32I mean compared to like the big three peak here. I just wondered how you feel like going forward
03:37I guess like how much more confident or how much more open it feels now. Yeah, I mean obviously I mean obviously like
03:44Carlos or Novak, and you know some people lost early on in this tournament, so it really opened up the draw a lot and
03:52You can only really beat who's who's in front of you, but I
03:56Mean I think it's
04:00really positive for me, and I because I I don't feel like
04:05At any specific point in these two weeks. I don't feel like I was playing like amazing tennis. I guess I feel like I was I
04:13mean
04:16Playing solid like nothing I guess
04:20Special like I feel like I'm
04:22Having my back in as good as I'd like to I haven't been serving as good as I'd like to
04:27luckily I can still get away with it and hold but
04:31Maybe I mean
04:34Maybe maybe it is a bit more open. I don't think you have to I don't know play unbelievable to
04:42Go deep in tournaments and content like I said, it's different like you
04:47Know back and and Carlos lost you know I would have had to play a
04:51Really really a great match if I happen to play Novak
04:55somewhere else in the draw, but
04:57yeah, I mean, I think that
05:00you know you can find yourself a little deeper in the draws like quarterfinals and stuff if you just
05:06Play solid tennis. I still think to beat the top guys you need to you know you need to bring your your best game Howard
05:16It had been a little bit of time since you had played Yannick
05:20Is he has he improved in that span and if so are there specific things?
05:27Could it point to that make it feel more challenging or difficult again?
05:31I mean, I'd say he's definitely improved a little bit since I beat him in straight sets at Indian Wells in 2021
05:40Yeah, he
05:42The biggest improvement by far is is to serve
05:46If I'm gonna go back from the cuz I played him in in 20
05:49I played him in last year Indian Wells, and he had already improved to serve I think
05:54From then I don't think there's that I don't think the improvements like a ton. I think that's he was I think he was
06:02Very very good at that point
06:04And he had just kind of been injured pulled out of a lot of tournaments when he was already like deep into it
06:09So like at that time he was ranked like I think outside the top ten
06:13Like I got kind of a tough draw was the top eight seed and I had to play I had to play him but I
06:20Think at that at that point
06:24He was very close to
06:27You know he's improved now with confidence and winning, but I think he was very close to the level
06:32at that point he just
06:34Had yet to show all of the the results because after after that he had a I mean he went
06:40He lost to Carlos that week won Miami the next week was you know
06:45Unbelievable all last year and starting this year as well, so I think that was kind of like the start of it
06:51If I want to go back to like the 2021 Indian Wells
06:55Yeah, I mean the serve and the movement massive improvements. I could
07:00Find myself in a lot of a lot of return games just off of his first serve
07:06I felt like I could get myself in points off of his first serve every time and
07:10Then it was much easier to hurt him from the ground as well. So he's much faster a
07:18Lot better out of the corners and his service his serve is very good now, please turn off your devices Larry
07:25Understanding that the match didn't end all that long ago can you
07:31Appreciate what you've done in this tournament can can you define this tournament as a success or
07:36Do you have to wait a little while?
07:39Yeah
07:41Not not yet, I
07:44there's obviously a lot of like a lot of positives and
07:51When I when I get some time to like cool down, you know, then it's I
07:58Think I'll be you know
07:59I'll be happy about the fact that I made it to the finals and stuff like that
08:04but right now it's
08:07I'm pretty I'm pretty just disappointed and
08:12How like I just a lot of a lot of things on the court how I
08:16How I played how I hit certain shots it it sucks. I'm not saying like that
08:23It necessarily would have made a difference. I don't know if it would have but I just would have liked to
08:29I've
08:31Played better and giving myself a better chance. So it's it's you know, it's really disappointing right now. I feel like I I
08:38I
08:40Don't know I feel like
08:42the fans obviously American fans been wanting a
08:47men's champion for a long time and I just I don't know I'm pretty upset of with high
08:54how I play it and I I feel like I
08:57I don't know. I feel like I almost let a lot of people down there. We'll have time for a few more David Cindy Willie
09:09When you came out onto the court you looked pretty confident
09:13And I just wanted the whole occasion generally did was it different to how you expected it in any way?
09:20What's the match actually got underway?
09:24Not really, I think just kind of
09:27Walking on the court and and just like hearing
09:32the crowd go crazy and just kind of like soaking in the moment of like
09:37like I'm you know, like I'm walking out to play my match on ash in the US in the US Open finals is like
09:44What I what I dreamed about my whole life it like almost got me like a little bit emotional but I was just like I
09:51Was just really happy and ready to enjoy the moment. And like I said, I I just I really
09:57Because I didn't feel like overly nervous. Like I felt pretty good
10:02I just really expected to come out and play better from the start
10:07last two Cindy
10:09You go from here to Berlin for Laver Cup
10:12Is there some comfort in rejoining your friends your countrymen over there in that team competition?
10:18for sure, I think I
10:20Think coming from like just the highs of like playing the US Open like at home with the crowd like and
10:28Then also just being so like mentally locked in for these like two weeks. It's
10:33it would be really tough to go play like a
10:36Another like individual tournament, that's not gonna have the same like
10:41Just energy of playing like nothing really matches playing like being an American playing like the US Open. So it's
10:47It's amazing that I'm gonna get to go play like
10:50just a really fun event that I enjoy with all my friends because if
10:55It's pretty impossible for me to like not be fired up like playing a match when I have all these guys on the bench
11:01like kind of
11:03going crazy for me and also like
11:05it's just a fun tournament to like or event to just
11:09Compete in and be with the group of guys. So like yeah, I'm you know, it's it's a it's a good
11:16Time in the calendar for this. I think kind of just like play that and then you know
11:21Almost like recharge a little bit mentally
11:24To go I guess grind it out in Asia afterwards
11:27Willie last question given what you were sick of being asked about and when you hadn't had the opportunity to do before
11:35What do you think you proved to yourself at this tournament? I
11:41Think I
11:42Think the biggest thing is like like I said before and I just I
11:48Played solid this week, but I played very
11:52Within myself. I don't think I
11:56At any point was like wow, I'm playing
11:59Incredible or I'm I'm playing out of my mind, you know, and I think that's
12:04just extremely
12:08Reassuring to me that I was able to get to this point
12:12just just playing playing solid tennis and and I know that
12:17there's still a lot of a lot of room for improvement and something I've said throughout my
12:21Entire career whether it's when I won my first
12:24ATP point or I won my first challenge or I made
12:28My first round of 16 or whatever it is. I've always said once I do something
12:32Once I I just feel a lot more confident and being able to do it again. That's something that's
12:39That's always stuck with me sometimes it's taking me some time to get to a certain achievement
12:43but I've always felt like once I've done something I
12:47Gain a lot of confidence that I can do it again. So
12:52It's it is a great feeling to have gotten to this point knowing that
12:58You know, I'm playing well, but I'm playing very within myself and I I feel like it's it's it's repeatable