Jakub Mensik a découvert une expérience particulière ce mardi. Celle d'affronter un joueur français à Roland-Garros, devant un public bouillant mais contre lui. Visiblement, le Tchèque n'a pas été tant perturbé, puisqu'il a sorti Alexandre Müller en quatre manches (7-5, 6-7(5), 7-5, 6-3). Comme Novak Djokovic, le n°19 mondial a voulu se sublimer dans l'adversité, face à tout un stade qui encourageait son adversaire. Ce problème ne sera pas à gérer au prochain tour. Il sera opposé au Portugais Henrique Rocha.
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00:00BNP Paribas, partenaire des plus belles histoires de Roland Garros, aux côtés des ramasseurs de balles depuis plus de cinquante ans.
00:19Hey, guys.
00:24Congrats, Jacob.
00:25Thank you.
00:26You can tell us, walk us through the match today, what do you think was the key?
00:29Thank you.
00:31Obviously, it was a very tough match.
00:34I knew it even in the beginning or before the match starts, that it's going to be tough, that everything will be against me.
00:44Actually, the weather was sometimes not playing into my cards.
00:50But yeah, I mean, for me it was most important to just, you know, stay focused, to try to, you know, play every single point.
01:01And actually, you know, Alex, you know, he's a great guy, playing really well past tournaments, you know, past this season, actually, you know, he did such a big improvement.
01:13So, it was great fight, great battle.
01:15And I'm glad that after everything, you know, I take the W and I reached second round.
01:22And I'm glad that you're here.
01:23Thank you.
01:24Hi, Jacob.
01:25There was obviously some to and fro between the crowd and yourself in the match.
01:32Your hero is Novak Djokovic, who, whenever he's in that situation, he often seems to play better if he's maybe got a crowd against him or something like that.
01:41I just wonder how you found the experience. Did you actually enjoy it? Or are you just proud that you've got through it? How did you feel?
01:50No, I knew before the game that it's going to be difficult, that it's going to be, like, amazing atmosphere, actually, you know, for him.
02:00So, yeah, I mean, but I didn't expect that much, to be honest. But, yeah, it's such a great experience.
02:07You know, everyone was telling me that on the Roland Garros, you know, the atmosphere, the French people are special, you know.
02:13Actually, I experienced that. So, I'm glad for that experience. And, yeah, I mean, like, like Novak is saying, you know, that when sometimes the crowd is against him,
02:24it was just, you know, you know, repeating in my head that, you know, that when they were cheering or shouting his name, you know, I was just, you know, like,
02:36trying to focus that they are shouting my name, you know, so actually, you know, of course, sometimes it was super difficult, but I think that I did well.
02:48And, you know, the atmosphere here is something special. So, of course, you know, sometimes it was really, really difficult.
02:56But, you know, in those pressure situations, I played really, really my great or my best tennis, which was the key, actually.
03:05And, like I said, I mean, maybe, maybe they pushed me forward. And that's why, you know, I played that good in the fourth set. And, yeah.
03:17Could you talk us through your celebration at the end of the third set? That looked like a pretty satisfying moment.
03:23And also just, you mentioned the conditions, if you could just talk a bit about that as well, the kind of weather and managing all of that stuff.
03:29Yeah, I mean, like I said, Alex is, you know, playing really well on the clay courts. And actually, you know, when it was, you know, slower and slower, it was playing with him.
03:43So actually, you know, when there was already for one hour, it was like rain, no rain, you know, and actually the court were super slippery already, you know, but, you know, the referee was, she wanted us to continue, you know, so the conditions were pretty tough at that time.
04:02And, like I said, for Alex, it was really great. And, yeah, I'm just, you know, glad that, you know, in the third set, I just, you know, like, I pumped myself up, you know, and actually, you know, like the celebration, it's like, like I said, I was just, you know, imagining in my head that, you know, they are cheering for me.
04:23And that was the key for me, just, you know, because if I would be, you know, rude to myself or like saying something to myself that it's bad, you know, that I don't like, you know, actually, I would start to play really bad.
04:37So actually, not just after a third set, but all the time, you know, I was just, you know, repeating in my head that they are cheering for me.
04:47So, like, you know, I don't know if you remember, like, like, no, no, no, like celebration, you know, I think it was against Yannick in Turin during the Masters.
04:58It was like doing also orchestra, you know, so, I mean, I was like, kind of, yeah, that can be it, you know, so, so, yeah, it was fun.
05:07Jakob, for the last months, you were playing with electronic line calling, and now here we have the linesman back.
05:14In a match like that, did you have any concerns that some close calls might be a little bit tricky?
05:21Actually, in my match, there was nothing, like, of course, you have to pay more attention about, like, what is going on on the court.
05:30Sometimes you have to just, you know, look at the mark and see if it is out.
05:34Sometimes it happened, you know, that I stopped the game.
05:36And so it's after we get used to play with electronic line calling that you just, you know, focus on the hit.
05:44Now you have to pay attention on the marks, which, of course, it's like in these days, it's already old style.
05:52But, I mean, I like it and the referees here are super good. So, so in my match, there was nothing, not a big incident, you know, but I saw when I look in the TV, you know, there were a couple of matches that the marks were that super close.
06:06that you were like, oh my God, you know, what to say. So, I'm glad that, you know, in my match, there was nothing like that.
06:13Hi, Jakub. Do you think sometimes the French crowd goes too far, like, for example, between first and second serve?
06:21Or do you think it's part of the game and it should be like this all year long?
06:25Well, like, good question. You know, it's tough to say what is like too far and what is not too far.
06:32Well, I mean, sometimes, you know, when there is really some pressure situations, you know, and like, you know, 30-40, like, you know, I'm break point down and, you know, something like this happened.
06:46Of course, I mean, as far as it is fair play, it's okay. But sometimes, like you said, like screaming and shouting like between those serves and, I don't know, like something like some gestures and everything, you know,
07:01sometimes it is too far, but I mean, like I said, it's an experience and just, you know, like Roland Garros is very known of the French fans and the French people that they are super cheering.
07:17It's like sometimes, you know, football match. So, in here, I think it's okay.
07:23You're still really young in this career. I mean, you've achieved a lot of things already. It doesn't show when you play that you don't have the experience of the players you're facing.
07:38Why do you think you've been learning so quickly or to adjust to all these new situations?
07:46Yeah, it's like a great question. I would like to know as well. It's, you know, it's something like I'm saying in all of the interviews, you know, I've been on the tour already for more than one year right now.
07:59So, I think that I took a lot of experience. I have already a lot of matches, you know, behind me. Of course, you know, even if I'll be on tour ten years, there will be always something new like today.
08:13But, yeah, like I'm trying to take every experience, every match, every practice, every tournament, like something that I have to work on or something that I want to improve all the time.
08:27And actually, you know, even if it is going that quickly, for me, it's natural, you know, it's like, you know, for someone it can take even faster, you know, for someone it takes slower.
08:42And it's, you know, it's very individual and for me it's going very natural. So, I'm glad for it and glad that I can compete on the highest level with, you know, the best players in the world.
08:57The best players in the world are still playing, right?
08:59And sufficer and conflicted out for me.
09:00So, you know something for us today on Friday, that if you want one of those who do it, or is not someone with me, or even one of those who do it.
09:02We do not have to work on the highest level.
09:06But I do not think that I do not work on the GC person in any way.
09:07For me parents, school grandkids won't go 100%.
09:10And when I make it out for next week, get crazy runs on purpose.
09:14I feel like, you know, like Ron Fair слово, you know, I JONAH, had a guest, eh, paddle silby also got up some tricks.
09:16And as I like the fact I do, it's very nice to try to frame aocket clown mindset.
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