En conférence de presse, Alexander Zverev, écœuré par le niveau de jeu de l'Italien, a été très réaliste sur les causes de sa troisième défaite, en trois matchs, lors de finales du Grand Chelem.
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00:00Yeah, I mean, unlucky moment for me, but in general Jannik is better than me at the moment.
00:11It's as simple as that. I think I serve better than Jannik and everything else he does better.
00:18So at the end of the day, he deserves to win. He's the best player on hard courts right now,
00:25and it's as simple as that.
00:28Sascha, on court you said,
00:30I don't know whether I'll be able to lift the trophy in your speech.
00:35This seems to be a bit of a shift from some of your previous statements.
00:38Do you feel there's been any change in your perspective in that regard?
00:43I think it's very difficult to give an on court speech after you lose a Grand Slam final.
00:52I'm doing everything I can.
00:56I'm working as hard as I ever did.
01:00I think I'm doing all the right things off court.
01:03I think I'm practicing the right things.
01:07But I lost in straight sets today.
01:14Those are facts. That is a fact. I lost to Jannik in straight sets today.
01:19I don't want to end my career as the best player of all time to never win a Grand Slam, that's for sure.
01:26I'll keep doing everything I can to lift one of those trophies.
01:33Great tournament, Sascha.
01:34How do you compare this to other times you've played Jannik in terms of where his level is
01:40and how you measure yourself against that?
01:43Today he completely outplayed me.
01:46From the back of the court, completely outplayed me.
01:49As I said, I think I'm serving better than him, but that's it.
01:53He does everything else better than me.
01:55He moves better than me.
01:57He hits his forehand better than me.
01:59He hits his backhand better than me.
02:01He returns better than me.
02:02He walls better than me.
02:04At the end of the day, tennis has probably five or six massive shots, massive factors.
02:11He does four or five of them better than me.
02:16That's the reason why he won, and he deserved to win today.
02:22Before your speech, someone shouted out,
02:25Australia believes Oli and Brenda.
02:27I'm just curious what your reaction is to that
02:29and what your reaction is to people who believe the domestic violence accusations against you.
02:34I think there are no more accusations.
02:38There haven't been for nine months now.
02:42Good for her.
02:43I think she was the only one in the stadium who believed anything in that moment,
02:46so that's the case.
02:48Good for her.
02:49I think I've done everything I can,
02:51and I'm not about to open that subject up again.
02:58You've played all the big four at their best,
03:01and you've played Carlos and Yannick at their best.
03:04I just wonder, where do you think Yannick compares to, say, Novak or Rafa?
03:09He's very similar to Novak when he was at his best.
03:17They barely miss, and they make you feel like you have to overhit all the time
03:24to have a chance in a rally against them.
03:26It's very, very difficult to win a point from the back of the court against them,
03:31against Novak and him.
03:35Their move is obviously tremendous.
03:37They're constantly on the baseline, they don't give you any space,
03:40they don't give you any time.
03:48Right now it's too good for me.
03:50Again, I'll do everything I can to be able to compete with them
03:57and to lift that trophy, but today was nowhere near good enough.
04:05How far do you think the gap is between his game at the moment
04:09and the rest of the players inside the top ten?
04:12On hard courts? Yeah, by far the best.
04:15The facts speak for themselves.
04:18He's won all the grand slams on hard courts since last year.
04:22He's lost, I think, three matches on hard courts, right?
04:25Three, four, something like that?
04:27I'm not sure, but somewhere around that.
04:34I think the facts speak for themselves.
04:37He's in a different universe right now to anyone else.
04:43I was just wondering, when you come out onto the court,
04:46obviously it's exciting, you've got it all ahead of you.
04:49How soon were you concerned about your own form in the match today?
04:58I felt like I could win the second set.
05:01I felt like that was a massive point.
05:04I think whoever wins that set can get a little bit of momentum.
05:09Being down two sets to love, especially Dan,
05:12his confidence goes up, mine goes down.
05:16It's a long way back against someone like Yannick.
05:19If it's one set at all, then maybe I have a chance,
05:22but two sets to love.
05:24I didn't stop fighting, I didn't stop believing,
05:27but then in the third set I thought he outplayed me more than in the other sets.
05:36I just wondered, you're talking about how dominant Yannick is, how good he is,
05:41how strange is it then that he could get a lengthy ban?
05:45How much does that create uncertainty amongst the rest of the players?
05:51Well, I didn't expect that question.
05:57I don't know anything about the situation that he's in.
06:02I know he's been cleared once.
06:06I know someone over the tennis integrity unit is taking a look at it now.
06:21He's a great guy. I have absolutely nothing against him.
06:25I don't know what will happen, but let's see in the next few months.
06:29I didn't expect this question, so I don't really know how to answer it, to be very honest.
06:38It looked like before the trophy ceremony he put his hands on your shoulders
06:41and said something encouraging.
06:43Are you happy to share what the conversation was?
06:46Yeah, I mean, I was quite down, I was quite emotional also in that stage.
06:50I think he saw that.
06:53He said that I will definitely lift one of those trophies in my career.
06:58I'm too good not to, that's his words.
07:03Yeah, it was a little bit of a tough moment for me,
07:06because I really went into that final and also the preparation today,
07:11I really thought I had a very good chance, because I was feeling good.
07:16I was feeling the ball quite well, I was feeling like I can compete.
07:22So it was just a difficult moment for me.
07:25Now, for the third time, seeing somebody lift a trophy
07:28and me standing next to that is difficult,
07:31because there's nothing more I want than to be able to hold one of those trophies in my hands.
07:41You beat him in the 2021, 2023 US Open on a hard court, Grand Slam.
07:47You're a better player than Din today.
07:50What is he doing differently that he did run away so much from other players?
07:59He serves better, he returns better, he hits his forehand better,
08:02he hits his backhand better, he moves better, he volleys better.
08:06I mean, there's nothing that he doesn't do better right now.
08:10Before, I remember those matches before, I always felt like
08:14once I was getting on top of the rally, I was winning most of those rallies.
08:18Now it's like he's prime Novak, it's so difficult to go through him.
08:26I think he's just all around a much better tennis player than he was back then.