Novak Djokovic a complètement manqué son match contre Alejandro Tabilo au troisième tour du Masters 1000 de Rome. Deux jours après l'incident de la gourde, le numéro 1 mondial est passé à côté de son sixième match, sur ocre, de la saison, en s'inclinant finalement 6-2, 6-3 après 1h08 de jeu. Il admet toutefois que cette lourde défaite n'est pas forcément au coup sur la tête qu'il a subi.
Vidéo : Internazionali BNL d'Italia
Vidéo : Internazionali BNL d'Italia
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00:00 Congratulations to my opponent. It's the first time I faced him. Great player, you know,
00:09 really a quality player, all-round game. Yeah, I just wasn't able to find any kind of good
00:19 feelings on the court, to be honest, you know, with striking the ball and just, yeah, I was
00:24 completely off.
00:25 Hi Novak, was this related at all to the bottle incident? Were you feeling anything from that,
00:39 from what happened on Friday night?
00:42 I don't know, to be honest. I have to check that because I thought yesterday, okay, training
00:46 was different. I was going for a kind of easy training yesterday. I didn't feel anything,
00:53 but I also didn't feel the same. So today under high stress, it was quite bad, not in
01:01 terms of pain, but just in terms of complete disbalance, just, you know, no coordination,
01:10 no, you know, just a completely different player from what it was two nights ago. So
01:17 could be, I don't know. I have to do, I guess, medical checkups and see what's going on.
01:21 Yes, Novak, what is your mindset before Roland-Garros at this point?
01:30 Same like always.
01:31 What do you think you need to look at as you lead up to Roland-Garros and then after Roland-Garros,
01:48 ahead of the Olympics as well?
01:51 Well, everything. Everything needs to be better in order for me to have at least a
01:57 chance to win it.
02:06 Sorry to return to the same theme, but I was just wondering whether you thought, given
02:09 the difference between training and how you played on the court today, whether there might
02:12 actually be a risk that what happened to you could affect your chances of participating
02:16 at Roland-Garros?
02:17 No, I didn't do any scans or any tests. So right now I feel like I should do it. So I
02:26 will do it. And let's see. Let's see what's happening.
02:29 Sorry, Novak, can you tell us more what happened the night when you received the bottle? How
02:39 did you react? How did you understand it?
02:41 Well, I mean, I think in the video you saw it very clearly. It was a very unfortunate,
02:50 unlucky situation for me. It was an accident where that guy leaned over the fence and the
03:00 bottle dropped from his rucksack and landed directly on my head. So it was unexpected,
03:06 obviously. I wasn't even looking up and then I felt a very strong hit in the head. And
03:15 that has really impacted me a lot. After that I got the medical care and been through half
03:31 an hour, an hour of nausea and dizziness and blood and a lot of different things. But I
03:41 managed to sleep OK. I had headaches, but the next day or yesterday was pretty fine.
03:47 So I thought it's OK. But maybe it is OK. Maybe it's not. I mean, the way I felt on
03:54 the court today was just completely from a different player entering my shoes. No rhythm,
04:04 no tempo, no balance whatsoever on any shot. So it's a bit concerning.
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