The Spanish tennis player Roberto Bautistawho returned against the French Arthur Fils In a match that lasted almost three hours (2-6, 7-5 and 6-3), he declared that “it was an epic match, I thought: fight hard, you will have a chance… And everything changed.”
“Sometimes you fight hard until the last chance, sometimes you get it sometimes you don’t. All the players feel pressure to play with me because they know that I will chase to the last point. “I was a better player at the end than at the beginning,” he told a press conference after giving Spain the first point of the series against France.
Baptist, who won nine of his last ten Davis Cup matchesadmits that without the help of the public “it is almost impossible.” “I have felt that the public has carried me along, Arthur has felt the pressure of the public, in the third set I have experienced the moments on the court that I will always carry,” he added.
On the other hand, the 36-year-old tennis player analyzed that “the level of tennis is very good, at the end of the match I had a very good level, it is not easy to hold a player on the scoreboard in the way that I did in the second set. The Davis Cup has it, tomorrow I will see how I am physically, but I am very happy.
“The Davis Cup is a special competition, experience helps to manage moments and I think Arthur has an incredible future, he played great tennis, we both played a great match , but tennis has it, no tie. He has to be satisfied with the good game he played,” he said of his 20-year-old rival.
Regarding the level of difficulty of the game since Davis has been playing since 2014, he said that “I put it very high, on the bench talking to David I told him: I rarely feel an opponent hit so hard and very good. in front of me.”
“David always told me: have faith, that you will have a chance and you will take it. At 5-5 I took that opportunity and finished on a good level. Davis is a competition that motivates me a lot and it is a date that I have marked a lot, it is my great goal of the season after a difficult year (due to injury) where I left the top 100 after for many years,” he admitted.
Finally, the man from Castellón also admitted that “my relationship with David (Ferrer) He has always been very good, we are both from here (from the Valencian Community) and I have the opportunity to learn from him, to enjoy with him.”
“I miss him on the circuit, last year I didn’t have the chance to play with Davis with him on the bench and we had a great moment in the game,” he concluded.
Source: La Verdad
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