Del Potro第三輪賽後訪問 - 網球 Tennis

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Q. Difficult time out there. He kept his level up the whole way. Did you
think maybe he was going to drop?

JUAN MARTIN DEL POTRO: No, I know his game. He's a fighter, no? It's very
hard make a winner playing against Simon. But I try until the end, and I
play in lower level the tiebreaks. He take the chance and he close the match
on fourth set. Anyways, I'm glad to be here, play this tournament. And I
have what I feel little sad now because I just lose. But I think my comeback
is a good shape. I'm keep trying to improve my game.

Q. Were you feeling tired?

JUAN MARTIN DEL POTRO: Yes.

Q. Where is your fitness level now compared to when you won here two years
ago?

JUAN MARTIN DEL POTRO: Well, I don't know. It's not easy after a year out
of competition come to the Grand Slam and play five sets with this weather.
Today was very hot. I'm still trying to recovery my game, my fitness, my
mind, everything. I know that's take a long time, but I'm doing faster than
everybody thinking. Hopefully be ready or be better for the next Grand Slam
next year.

Q. Do you have any sentimental feeling or memory about today's match
regarding the final? Did it come into your mind at all today?

JUAN MARTIN DEL POTRO: Yeah, because I play tiebreak on fourth set both in
the final and today. I was thinking if I win the tiebreak maybe I can win
the match again, but that's not happen and Simon won the match.

Q. There was that one point where I think there were three times where it
looked like you had a winner, and three straight times he ran it down
somehow. How shocked were you? How mentally tiring is it playing someone
like that, too?

JUAN MARTIN DEL POTRO: Is tough because you try to make the winners all the
time, every point, and the ball come to you every time, too. And if you
don't serve really, really well, Simon plays a nice tennis, very fast and
it's not easy to make a winner to him. But, anyways, the crowd help me a lot
4 5 in the fourth set especially, and I was really close to win that set.
But not this year.

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