Malgré deux sets d'avance, Alex De Minaur sorti par Alexander Bublik au deuxième tour de Roland-Garros. Quart de finaliste sur la terre battue parisienne l'année dernière et alors qu'il menait deux sets à zéro, l'Australien Alex De Minaur (9e) s'est incliné face au Kazakhstanais Alexander Bublik (62e) en cinq sets (2-6, 2-6, 6-4, 6-3, 6-2).
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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.
00:17Oui, c'était pas un bon jour à l'hôpital, c'était pas un bon jour à l'hôpital, c'était pas un bon jour.
00:38Alex, physically, all that, no illness, no injury, or was there anything?
00:50No, look, I'm just tired, tired mentally, I'm a little bit burnt out, if anything.
00:59A lot of tennis being played, in a way, the good thing is that what's happened today is something like a miracle, right?
01:15In a sense that I'm not known for these types of performances, or losing a match like this from two sets to low up.
01:23You know, I'm probably known for the opposite, which is just being consistent and not losing really matches that I shouldn't be losing.
01:35So, saying all this, obviously have to have a chat with the team and analyse everything that's been happening and kind of find a reason of why this happened today.
01:53When you say about tired and feeling a bit burnt out, was there a period last year when you had a similar sort of feeling?
02:03That you had a bit of a dip in form and things were not going that well for you, you were getting frustrated?
02:09Look, if there's probably anything, last year was, I had to deal with the injury, right, after Wimbledon.
02:21And I went on a good run here, I went on to the grass and went on another good run there and then had the injury.
02:32And after that, then, it was probably something completely different I had to deal with.
02:39And it was frustrating at times trying to get back to 100% health.
02:44But I wouldn't say, yeah, especially this early in the season that I felt like this.
02:55Alex, do you feel that was a game that you lost or public won, really?
03:00I think I lost that one.
03:03I mean, yeah, probably looking back at my grandson career, I can't think of another match where, yeah, I felt this way and I ended up losing a match that I probably, by all means, shouldn't have.
03:25Look, not to give credit away from public, he's extremely dangerous, but saying that, I was also too such a slob up.
03:35So this is a match that, you know, I win 99.9% of the times.
03:43Today was just the odd occasion that it slipped my way.
03:49Sorry, do you put that down basically to your fatigue or mental?
03:57Yeah, I put that down to myself.
03:59I feel like if I can come up and put in, you know, the level that I know I can, I don't lose that match.
04:09Sorry, just one.
04:17I mean, we were talking to Tomo a couple of days ago.
04:19I know there's no easy solution to this, but, you know, the fatigue is across, and we saw it with Kasper yesterday, players talking about having to play through injury because they're going to be at mandatory events, Alex, and all the rules that are in place.
04:34I mean, no one seems to have a total solution, but it's long and demanding and takes a toll as much mentally as physically.
04:44I mean, have you got any thought as to what?
04:48I mean, it's, no one's got a solution, but the solution is simple.
04:52You shorten the schedule, right?
04:54Like, what's not normal is that for the last three, four years, I've had two days off after Davis Cup, and I've gone straight into pre-season and straight into the new season again.
05:09And, yeah, sure, I mean, I could have maybe taken a week or a week and a half, but then that means my pre-season is two weeks long, and I'm already starting in Australia, which is, you know, my home ground where I want to be doing well.
05:26And once you start, you don't finish until November 24th, right?
05:31So it's just never-ending, that's the sheer fact of it, and the way it's structured, as Kasper put it out there, I had to deal with that.
05:46I'm still dealing with that right now, right?
05:48My ranking right now consists of two zeros, because I was injured and I couldn't play Cincinnati, Montreal, well, three, and Shanghai, which is ridiculous, if you ask me, right?
06:05But that's just the rules of the tour and where we are right now.
06:10And the solution is, you shorten it, because what's going to happen is players' careers are going to get shorter and shorter, because they're just going to burn out mentally.
06:25There's just too much tennis.
06:27And, look, there's no excuse, again, for today, myself, and what happened today.
06:34I need to look at myself in the mirror and find out the reasonings, because ultimately this isn't going to change.
06:42It doesn't look like it's going to change, so I've got to adapt and make sure it doesn't happen again.
06:51During the match, I mean, we know you're going to fight for every point right to the bitter end, but during the match, did you at all feel that this is not going to go right?
07:03It's slipping away, and on the second part, as disappointed as you are now, what will you do?
07:11Will you just be peed off for the next couple of days and just get on with things after that?
07:18Yeah, I think the biggest tell sign when I'm not feeling good or I'm not, like, I'm tired or I'm just, is me getting edgy on the court.
07:32Normally, I win this match, as I said, nine times out of ten, based on my attitude, and I don't let anything that he throws my way affect me.
07:44And today, I just, I was getting, you know, frustrated with myself, which ended up lowering my level, and then I got into an even bigger hole, right?
07:59I forgot how to serve for a while there.
08:02It just, it just all became a little bit too much, to the point where it was one of the few times in my career where I felt like, yeah, there's not really, I don't see the solution today.
08:17I don't think today is going to be that day where I, where I turn things around, just because I, I couldn't mentally get myself up for it.
08:28Yeah, and as for now, I'll have a chat with, with the team and, and find a way to, to regroup, and I'm in the grass season coming up, so that, that is always an easier swing for me,
08:42and I'm hoping that I'm, uh, definitely up for that. Thank you.