La vida que tuvo Marcelo Ríos y Paula Pavic en Miami.
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00:00Hey, first of all, thank you for welcoming us to your home,
00:03because we've been here recording, talking and everything.
00:06And Marcelo told me, well, that it was a decision to come here as a family,
00:12but that at the beginning there was a test.
00:14Yes, we came for a year, we were supposed to see if we could be away for so long,
00:20and in the end nothing was done.
00:22So it was like, no, let's stay, let's stay longer, let's stay longer.
00:27When your father says that he wants to come and live here,
00:29for you, at the beginning, was it a decision that was more or less clear,
00:33what could you do, or did it cost you?
00:35No, not at all.
00:36Because, you know, at some point they also told Marcelo
00:39that they offered him to work in China,
00:43just before all this coronavirus started.
00:46Yes, they offered him to work in China to prepare him for tennis.
00:48Yes, at an academy.
00:50And I said yes, I'm happy.
00:53You live in China too?
00:55And in the end, my family is them, so wherever we are, it doesn't matter where we are.
01:01I mean, the truth is, I don't care what people say.
01:05In fact, many people say like,
01:08because Marcelo and I are super different in the way of being, in the things that...
01:13Yes, what I have been able to... I mean, I've known Marcelo for many years,
01:16I didn't know you, but you are very different.
01:19Yes, super different in the way of thinking and everything.
01:21Also in the way of thinking?
01:22And in fact, there are things that he does that I don't agree with,
01:25but I'm not an extension of him.
01:29I have it super clear, so it doesn't affect me what he says, what he says, what he thinks,
01:34because deep down, we are two different people.
01:38We have been able to handle it super well,
01:40because as I always keep myself as a trap, there is no problem with that.
01:45It's like they say, Marcelo Rios in the house, Chino Rios out of the house.
01:49Of course, it's hard for me to deal with that,
01:52because inside the house he is a totally different person.
01:56But not here, here it's always the same.
01:58But in Chile, the fact of arriving in Chile,
02:01we were at the airport and you already start to feel that,
02:04like, that crust that you start to put in the airport.
02:07So it's like I already feel that weight of having to walk with Chino Rios everywhere,
02:13and really, I don't like Chino Rios as much as I like Marcelo Rios.
02:19So, of course, having to be with those two people in different places
02:26is kind of a dual issue, kind of complicated.
02:33But that's why it's been so easy here, because here it's the same person everywhere.
02:38In fact, here it's much more sociable than anywhere else.
02:43Here he talks to everyone, he's nice to everyone.
02:48But it's like they say, I'm from Chile, I hear a Chilean accent and something happens to him.
02:55It's like, I think that...
02:57You screwed me up one day.
03:00Your life is indeed a typical life.
03:02You had to be the number one in the world in a sports career
03:05that lasts until you're 30, 35 years old, and you finish at 26.
03:09But what you also lived in that period,
03:11you start working at 25, at 20, and you start working at 12.
03:15Of course.
03:16Of course, that's when you say,
03:18no one said anything when he was 12, 13 years old,
03:20like, how is this kid working?
03:22Because at that age he started working, deep down.
03:24So a sportsman works, regardless of whether he's a player or not,
03:27but he's working anyway.
03:28Exactly, but deep down, the responsibilities he has to have,
03:31the discipline he has to have, is not something normal.
03:33What happens is that people are jealous of criticism.
03:37You think that you're retired at 26, and your life is done,
03:41there are people who are jealous.
03:43And I've always felt that.
03:45I don't know, you're just getting out of college,
03:47and this kid has everything, he's ready.
03:50But at first it was hard for me, like I said,
03:52it was hard for me to be like, suddenly,
03:54like, you've already done all your work,
03:57you've finished, you've got your whole life ahead of you.
03:59What do I do now?
04:00And that was the challenge, right?
04:02Yes, to find something that moves him now,
04:04and motivates him to keep going.
04:06It's hard to find something that motivates you,
04:08if you've been competitive all your life,
04:10something that motivates you, and it's been hard for me.
04:13So, I haven't found anything that fills me up,
04:17even if it's not, I'm not talking about the economic part,
04:20something that fills me up, that makes me want to do it.
04:23Like filling you up with tennis?
04:25Of course, it's hard for me.
04:27That it's not competitive, that I'm not fighting
04:29because I'm better than the other,
04:31but that I go and go calm, that I go in peace,
04:33that I go and enjoy it.
04:35And I can't find it, like you.
04:37Yeah, well, thank you for giving me these minutes,
04:41and it's nice what you've done,
04:46because I didn't know you, I only saw you on TV,
04:49and you haven't been on TV,
04:52and you fascinated me with the relationship you have with Marcelo Contigo.
04:56Thank you for having me at your house.
04:58You're welcome.
04:59Very nice.