En conférence de presse après sa défaite au premier tour de Roland-Garros, Daniil Medvedev a expliqué qu'il n'aimait toujours pas la terre battue.
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00:00 It was a tough match. I don't know if I'm going to look back on TV, but my feeling was that he played well.
00:08 I don't think I played that bad, but he played well. The thing is that it's always the same, if he continues to play that way,
00:20 and in my opinion, at the end of the year, he's top 30. But last time I said something like this about someone, he didn't manage to do it.
00:28 So it's great for him to play like this today. I honestly hope he's going to play like this later on, because if not, I'm going to be disappointed.
00:38 I'm going to be like, "Why today? Why not in two days?"
00:41 It was very tough with the wind, but it's strange because it was here from the first day, like six days ago,
00:47 always in the same direction, always on centre. I don't remember this from previous years.
00:51 It is what it is. It was not easy, but it's part of the game.
00:57 But with these heavy balls, to adjust with the wind was not easy.
01:03 In my opinion, players who have a wrist game, like my opponent today, Carlos, I think Stefanos a little bit,
01:15 have a big advantage with these balls because they can create easy power, which I don't have.
01:21 That was a little bit the case today. He was controlling almost all the points and I was suffering a lot, especially on the side against the wind.
01:29 That's basically why it was tough and why I lost.
01:33 I mean, second time he did some mistakes when he had a set point.
01:38 But I really, in my opinion, tried to make him win this match and he managed to do it.
01:45 So again, no problem with that. He played great. I think he's a great player.
01:50 He won the US Open Junior, if I'm not mistaken, and stuff like this.
01:54 It's just that his life is going to be better if he plays like this every match.
01:58 He's going to get more money, more sponsors, win big titles.
02:03 But he has to play like this, not once on the Philippe Chattery, but a lot of times in different tournaments all over the world throughout the year.
02:12 And the way he plays this year, I think he wants some challengers and stuff.
02:15 Maybe he's capable of doing it. So let's see. We have to wait and see.
02:19 Today I had a win, dry court. I had a mouth full of clay since probably the third game of the match.
02:26 I don't like it. I don't know. If people like to eat clay, to have clay in their bags, in their shoes, the socks, white socks, you can throw them to garbage after clay season.
02:36 Maybe some people like it. I don't. I am happy to have it finished.
02:40 I'm going to have a good time off. I have to find positives.
02:43 A lot of relaxing next days.
02:48 And happy to go to the next challenges, even if for sure I wanted to stay longer in Paris, even if it's clay.