Le Masters 1000 de Rome s'annonce crucial pour Alexander Zverev, lui qui arrive au Foro Italico en tant que vainqueur de la dernière édition. En difficulté depuis sa finale à l'Open d'Australie, l'Allemand s'est montré lucide en conférence de presse sur les raisons de sa mauvaise passe : "Avant le tournoi de Munich, mon tennis était vraiment mauvais, et je sais pourquoi. Ne pas prendre quelques semaines de repos après l'Open d'Australie a été une erreur, car j'ai fini par être épuisé mentalement. Le tennis est un sport très exigeant ; il faut reposer son corps et son esprit, et je ne l'ai pas fait au bon moment. Maintenant, je dois être positif et me rappeler que j'ai gagné un tournoi il y a deux semaines."
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00:00Sous-titrage Société Radio-Canada
00:30Just going back to Madrid, is there anything you can take away from a match like that and the opponent that you are playing?
00:40Yeah, that I hate playing him, to be honest.
00:46Yeah, I mean, I think outside of the top guys like Yannick and Carlos, he's probably the most difficult for me to play.
00:53I haven't really figured out how to play him, haven't really figured out a way to beat him, which shows on the record.
01:01But all in all, I thought my level of tennis was okay there.
01:04I thought I played three pretty good matches there.
01:08Also, winning Munich the week before, I feel like my tennis is at the right spot right now.
01:13And just going back to having a kind of a bogey player like that, does that play on your mind before the match?
01:21Is that something you're thinking about?
01:22I mean, I know who's comfortable and who's uncomfortable for me.
01:26There's top guys, you know, top 10 in the world.
01:30I'm not going to mention names, but who are very comfortable for me, for example.
01:33And then there's guys who are not top 10 and maybe outside who are less comfortable.
01:38But that's how it goes.
01:40That's why tennis is such an interesting sport.
01:41It's all about match-ups.
01:43It's all about how somebody fits your game style.
01:47And that's why the results are so unpredictable sometimes.
01:50But all in all, you know, my main focus for the next two weeks.
02:01Hi, Sacha.
02:02Looking back to the last three months,
02:05did you have more expectation in terms of your results or level of playing?
02:11Yeah, I mean, before Munich, obviously, my level of play wasn't great.
02:16But there are reasons for it.
02:18I think not taking time off after Australia was a big reason for it.
02:23I felt like I burned out a little bit.
02:27You know, tennis is a tough sport.
02:29We play a lot.
02:30We travel a lot.
02:31We don't give, first of all, we don't give our bodies rest,
02:34but we also don't give our heads rest.
02:35Like, we don't give, we don't get mental rest.
02:37So I needed that a little bit.
02:40But, you know, I'm on a good path.
02:44I won a tournament, you know, two weeks ago.
02:45I kind of, I cannot forget that.
02:49And I have to focus on the positives.
02:52Sorry, I came in late.
03:03I hope nobody asked.
03:04But about getting back to the electronic line calling issue,
03:08we saw what happened in Madrid.
03:10You must be pleased, I guess, that in Paris, at Roland Garros,
03:17they still have, you know, they're still going to have the lines.
03:20Oh, they still didn't have that?
03:21I believe this year they still have them.
03:23Well, it screwed me last year.
03:26So you can't win either way, I guess.
03:28Well, I can, I can win, but last year the chair empire did screw me.
03:36So it's just a fact.
03:40But to be honest, I liked the electronic line calling.
03:44I think there was absolutely no mistakes in Monte Carlo.
03:47I thought there was no mistakes in Munich.
03:51I think there was something wrong with the system in Madrid.
03:55But I just personally put that down to the Madrid tournament, right?
04:03I think the weeks before it worked perfectly fine.
04:05And it was, you know, mistake-free kind of.
04:09So I still think that it's the right way to go forward, too.
04:14But when mistakes happen like this in Madrid,
04:16then maybe they have to readjust it for the next day
04:18and maybe they have to readjust the system a little bit.
04:21But all in all, Monte Carlo, Munich, it was working perfectly fine.
04:28Do you think there should be more wiggle room
04:30if there's something that's so glaringly wrong?
04:35Look, the Madrid case, I mean, there was obviously a mistake there.
04:39It was not only the shot, the Fokkin I hit.
04:42It was also the serve I hit, you know, because it was a game point.
04:46So I went to the other side after that and I saw the mark.
04:49The mark was clearly out also.
04:54Look, I don't know.
04:56I don't have the solution.
04:57But Madrid definitely didn't work well.
04:59The system didn't work well.
05:01But then again, in Monaco and in Munich,
05:04the system worked better than humans would, right?
05:07because there was no mistakes at all the entire week.
05:11So it's, yeah.
05:13I don't know how to answer that question.
05:17It's not for me to decide.
05:19But when it's clear like that,
05:21then maybe the umpire should be able to come down from the chair.
05:25If we're talking about millimeters, then no.
05:27But if we're talking about, you know, three, four, five centimeters, then maybe.
05:37Media and people talk a lot about the number one in the world.
05:41And everybody says it's a dream.
05:43But it could be an obsession as well?
05:46It would be one number one.
05:49It would be nice.
05:50I don't know.
05:51I have not been there.
05:53But I believe I will.
05:55So we'll see.
05:57We'll see how it goes.
05:59I do think also, you know,
06:01the media also loves to put players down.
06:03So I had bad two months before Munich, right?
06:08I didn't play great tennis before Munich.
06:12And all of a sudden,
06:13I'm like the worst world number two in the world ever.
06:19I don't deserve to be there.
06:21I'm there because I won tournaments.
06:23I'm there because I have results.
06:25And the ranking system doesn't lie.
06:28I mean, you get points for winning matches.
06:30You get points for winning titles.
06:31And, yes, I know I didn't play up to my standard.
06:35I know I didn't play up to what I wanted to do.
06:38But neither did Carlos.
06:42You know, and then he won Monte Carlo.
06:43And then there are periods in the player's career.
06:48Do you think Novak is happy with his results?
06:50Do you think Carlos is happy with his results?
06:51I'm not happy with my results.
06:53But at the end of the day,
06:54for big matches, for big moments,
06:56I still believe that the top players will rise.
06:58And I still believe that I'm going to find my tennis
07:00for the biggest tournaments.