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Alexander Bublik on His Emotional Reaction to Defeating Jack Draper | 2025 Roland-Garros · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: Sinner Zverev and then Djokovic. Yeah, all makes sense.
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  Speaker 2: Public Draper, I mean, Draper's gonna move on right, first set,
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  Speaker 2: takes it down, psych.
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  Speaker 3: This is probably the match of the day on the
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  Speaker 3: men's side. I think a lot of people expected Draper
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  Speaker 3: to get through. Right, it's the five seed. It's had
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  Speaker 3: a great.
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  Speaker 2: Year nineteen and oh when winning the first set this season, Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: That's another good stat that's healthful form. Here's actually up
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  Speaker 3: a set and a break going into this match. But
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  Speaker 3: Alexander Publick, it's already come back from two sets to
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  Speaker 3: love this week. A tricky players to look that Wally.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, look, if there's a guy that can play
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  Speaker 3: at the net, it's this guy. Full of drop shots.
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  Speaker 3: Oh player Drick, Wow, Oh my gosh. Look those are
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  Speaker 3: the points that Alexander Bublrick has made a career winning.
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  Speaker 1: No one does it.
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  Speaker 3: Better than him. You gotta love the reaction, right, He's
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  Speaker 3: gonna elevate his game and matches like this in front
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  Speaker 3: of big crowds.
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  Speaker 1: Draper just couldn't get things.
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  Speaker 4: Going after that first set.
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  Speaker 3: It was all bluebook from there, six three second set,
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  Speaker 3: six' to two in the third, set and then the
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  Speaker 3: fourth set is where things got a little, trippy. Tricky
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  Speaker 3: bublick actually went break.
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  Speaker 1: Early look at.
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  Speaker 3: THAT i Mean bublick usually he plays a little more.
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  Speaker 3: Erratic it sectually honed it in this week and that's
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  Speaker 3: why we're seeing good results from. Him this final game,
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  Speaker 3: Though kubrick wins it, there but he fended off five
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  Speaker 3: break points and you can see the. Emotion you can
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  Speaker 3: see how much this means for. Him first quarter final
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  Speaker 3: for Bublic.
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  Speaker 2: Man he had four career wins here in six prior Rolling,
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  Speaker 2: garros he equaled that this. Week his second top ten
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  Speaker 2: player that he takes, down as you, mentioned his first major.
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  Speaker 1: QUARTERFINALS i don't say this.
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  Speaker 2: LIKELY i have not experienced as much honesty AS i
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  Speaker 2: experienced When Alexander bublick.
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  Speaker 1: Was on this. Set take a, listeners hear it for.
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  Speaker 2: Yourself public the game of his, life the match of his, career.
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  Speaker 1: The win of the, tournament the upset of the.
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  Speaker 2: Day Alexander bublick gets the w he moves on to the,
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  Speaker 2: quarterfinals knocking Off Jack.
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  Speaker 1: Draper and the man joins us right.
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  Speaker 4: Now thank, You thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Guys the drop, shots the play at the, end the
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  Speaker 2: magic throughout This some would, say it's in my notes
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  Speaker 2: the biggest career win for. YOU i could see at
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  Speaker 2: the end the. Elation what did it mean to you
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  Speaker 2: to win that match in front of that.
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  Speaker 4: Crowd, well you, know as an, athlete you, know you
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  Speaker 4: look for these. Matches you never know when it's going to.
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  Speaker 4: Happen you never know when you're gonna win the tournament
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  Speaker 4: or make you, know, WHATEVER i. Make you, know it's
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  Speaker 4: the first TIME i May i've made a. Quarterfinal and
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  Speaker 4: OBVIOUSLY i never got, emotional like this is the, Thing,
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  Speaker 4: Like i've never been emotional in my. Career so but
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  Speaker 4: that that specific match at the, END i was, Like,
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  Speaker 4: okay it hits. You, yeah, yeah, SOMEHOW i don't know,
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  Speaker 4: why but this is. Life sometimes you don't expect. That
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  Speaker 4: But i'm an honest, person So i'll let it all.
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  Speaker 1: Out you, know when you were, feeling what did you? Feel?
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  Speaker 5: What?
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  Speaker 1: Like was it an appreciation of? GRATITUDE i don't, know
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  Speaker 1: to be.
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  Speaker 4: Honest you, know like WHEN i was WHEN i broke
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  Speaker 4: came in and forth said the first game and it's
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  Speaker 4: been like going smoothly on my, surf and THEN i
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  Speaker 4: was serving. Out WHEN i was serving it, OUT i was, Like,
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  Speaker 4: OKAY i was fifteen, forty and THEN i had a
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  Speaker 4: feeling like you, know SOMETIMES i won a couple of
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  Speaker 4: tottaments in my, life and sometimes you have a, feeling
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  Speaker 4: this is the only chance you. Have BECAUSE i was
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  Speaker 4: serving here six four or five, four WHEN i was
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  Speaker 4: in the finals of doubles here AND i didn't serve it.
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  Speaker 4: OUT i, WAS i was. Out we were, lost AND
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  Speaker 4: i had the same. Feeling, now IF i would lose this,
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  Speaker 4: break that's. IT i would seven five six, Two, Max,
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  Speaker 4: like this is HOW i, feel you, Know that's HOW i.
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  Speaker 4: Feel SO i, Said, OKAY i have TO i have
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  Speaker 4: to be. THERE i have to go for, it and
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  Speaker 4: if it, goes it. Goes if, Not thank you very,
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  Speaker 4: Much sash for a.
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  Speaker 5: Round, WELL i WAS i was listening to your last
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  Speaker 5: press conference and you were talking about the difference between
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  Speaker 5: the top ten, guys the big guys that we talked
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  Speaker 5: about The Carlos Autgrazi Janick, center and how you have
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  Speaker 5: to be able in order to, compete work differently and think.
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  Speaker 5: Differently can you talk more about that of what that difference.
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  Speaker 4: Is, well you, know like they they're the, Machines they're
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  Speaker 4: an ultimate. Sportsman Like i've Been i've been around for
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  Speaker 4: like maybe six seven years and top. Fifteen i've seen
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  Speaker 4: many generations of. Those stop, guys you, Know i've seen.
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  Speaker 4: You i'm watching what they're doing in the. Gym i'm
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  Speaker 4: not capable of doing, that but, still but INSIDE i
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  Speaker 4: want to be, here you. KNOW i want to be
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  Speaker 4: a top fifty, player top twenty. PLAYER i was, once
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  Speaker 4: and so for, ME i have to find a way
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  Speaker 4: in order to win against them. Occasionally i'm not gonna
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  Speaker 4: win this kind of nases every week because, Physically i'm
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  Speaker 4: not going to be able to do. That, because as
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  Speaker 4: a many TIMES i, said like tennis is a fifty
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  Speaker 4: percent of my. Life you, KNOW i have other part
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  Speaker 4: of being a, dad being a, friend which is have
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  Speaker 4: the same importance for me as being a tennis. Player
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  Speaker 4: so in this fifty percent THAT i have as a professional,
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  Speaker 4: ATHLETE i have to do maximum THAT i want my
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  Speaker 4: body is capable. Of i'm not going to put my
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  Speaker 4: health on the. Line i'm not going to be fighting through.
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  Speaker 4: Injuries you, know IF i have, PAIN i, RESIGN i
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  Speaker 4: say thank you Very i'm not going there BECAUSE i
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  Speaker 4: prioritize my health a. Lot and if you tell, me,
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  Speaker 4: sah she's gonna win a, slam but you can't walk
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  Speaker 4: at Forty i'm not going to take the, Slam so
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  Speaker 4: THEN i have to work with the TOOLS i. Have
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  Speaker 4: i'm quite capable of doing certain things on, court but
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  Speaker 4: not not all very. Often SO i take. IT i
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  Speaker 4: say her a, moment AND i take it like this.
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  Speaker 3: Spear in the stadium during that last game was electric out.
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  Speaker 1: Here it was.
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  Speaker 3: This see many people are out. Here it was times one.
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  Speaker 3: Hundred it was electric out here as. Well you're, cool you're,
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  Speaker 3: calm you're, collected you save break. Points to that last,
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  Speaker 3: game you had a match, point you had a slip
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  Speaker 3: and you won. It were you stressed out of your
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  Speaker 3: mind that last five minutes because we were in here.
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  Speaker 4: Watching of, course AS i, SAID i said to, myself
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  Speaker 4: If i'm losing that break it's seven five sixty, Two,
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  Speaker 4: Max i'm not gonna. Fight because if you have this
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  Speaker 4: chance to make your first ever quarter final and you blow,
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  Speaker 4: it it's your. Fault that's HOW i see. IT i
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  Speaker 4: love that very.
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  Speaker 1: Simple that's such a great.
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  Speaker 4: Answer that's that's that's as very simple as. THAT i
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  Speaker 4: said it to. Myself i've blowed it a couple of
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  Speaker 4: times in my, life but this ONE i can.
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  Speaker 3: Do so that one you blow, it you're just going
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  Speaker 3: into the fifth set saying IT'S.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know IF i would even. Continue i'll be
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  Speaker 4: honest with, you But i'm this kind of For sometimes
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  Speaker 4: you have a feeling that it Has LIKE i had
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  Speaker 4: this feeling six four or five four serving to win
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  Speaker 4: a double, slam AND i said to my Partner andrea
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  Speaker 4: at the, TIME i, said, like if we blow this,
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  Speaker 4: one my, Serf i'm not playing. Anymore that's.
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  Speaker 1: It and we lost a tough.
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  Speaker 4: Partner, Gee it's, Okay BUT i, mean you have to
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  Speaker 4: get this is. All some times it's like. This sometimes
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  Speaker 4: you fight. BACK i have won titles WHEN i was fighting.
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  Speaker 4: BACK i won matches like. This but SOMETIMES i have
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  Speaker 4: this strong feeling within me that this is the only,
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  Speaker 4: chance and this time it, Worked So i'm really. Happy
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  Speaker 4: that's WHY i PROBABLY i had some emotions on court
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  Speaker 4: BECAUSE I i JUST i just did, it you, know
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  Speaker 4: as simple as.
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  Speaker 5: That.
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  Speaker 6: YEAH i remember a few years ago you Played Monte
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  Speaker 6: carlo and you gave a great interview in which you
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  Speaker 6: talked About.
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  Speaker 4: Clay you said it was.
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  Speaker 6: Terrible you didn't understand why we played so many tournaments.
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  Speaker 1: On it and you absolutely hated.
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  Speaker 6: IT a few weeks ago After, madrid you want a
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  Speaker 6: few matches In, madrid started to find some good, form
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  Speaker 6: lost to Min, chek and then went To turin you
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  Speaker 6: won a one to seventy five. Challenger there seemed to
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  Speaker 6: be a lot of emotion in that final after you
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  Speaker 6: went on match. Point you could see. It your child was.
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  Speaker 6: There it was it was a really touching.
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  Speaker 1: Moment, now how do.
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  Speaker 6: You feel about the clay advancing to your first grandstam
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  Speaker 6: quarterfinal here In Roland.
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  Speaker 4: Garrels you, know it's a very good. Question, chris AND
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  Speaker 4: i had no options this year to. COMPLAIN i was
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  Speaker 4: out of the. RANKING i was eighty in the. WORLD
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  Speaker 4: i was talking to my cars THAT i want to
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  Speaker 4: quit ten is BECAUSE i can't be eight in the.
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  Speaker 4: World it feels disgraceful for, me AND i hated. It,
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  Speaker 4: then you, know imagine IF i approach the clay WHICH
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  Speaker 4: i have to defend maybe like a three hundred points or,
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  Speaker 4: something AND i just, say, OH i can't, play and you,
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  Speaker 4: KNOW i whine AND i just, say you, know blow it.
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  Speaker 4: Out i'm out of the top, Hundred and what then
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  Speaker 4: is SO i just said to. Myself you have a,
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  Speaker 4: gear you got to use your. Chances IF i have,
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  Speaker 4: One i'm going to use. It i'm just gonna. Fight
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  Speaker 4: i'm going to try to play on clay and see
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  Speaker 4: how it. Goes and it worked like. This so this
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  Speaker 4: is this part BECAUSE i had no, room you, know to,
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  Speaker 4: Cry because if you have room to, CRY i always
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  Speaker 4: would take the. Cry you. Know it's always, nice you,
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  Speaker 4: know like you, say, ah it's not, me it's Someone,
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  Speaker 4: god whatever. Line but when you have no, options then
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  Speaker 4: it's that's how it. Works and of course the title
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  Speaker 4: THAT i wanted to rein hanging of course because it's seventy,
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  Speaker 4: one seventy five. Points So i'm back in the top.
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  Speaker 4: Fifty you, Know i'm back in the conversation WHICH i
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  Speaker 4: WHICH i FEEL i deserve to be and this, WIN i,
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  Speaker 4: mean proves it. Again so for, ME i just have
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  Speaker 4: no room to. Cry very. SIMPLE i heard.
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  Speaker 5: It was a trip To.
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  Speaker 3: Vegas that was that was a difference.
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  Speaker 5: Maker what was it the?
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  Speaker 1: Casinos was it the? Pool was?
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  Speaker 2: It?
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  Speaker 4: YEAH i MEAN i lost like whatever ninth match in
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  Speaker 4: a row or something To Yusuki watanuki In Indian. WELLS
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  Speaker 4: i was out of a top eighty and you, know
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  Speaker 4: the thing, is like AS i said already in the previous,
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  Speaker 4: interviews THAT i was working. Hard that was the. Problem
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  Speaker 4: and then we were sitting in the in the lobby
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  Speaker 4: of the hotel And i'm, like, okay man to my,
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  Speaker 4: coach we have to work, hard you, know we have
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  Speaker 4: to get extra. Practice he, said, Like, alex. Relaxed you've
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  Speaker 4: been practicing for a year already and you were not winning.
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  Speaker 4: Matches can we just enjoy it a bit and play.
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  Speaker 4: Tennis you know you can, play you can, drop you can,
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  Speaker 4: serve so stop. Working SO i, WAS i was counting,
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  Speaker 4: days you, know Before. Phoenix IF i do like one,
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  Speaker 4: session if we miss, it if what is going to.
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  Speaker 4: Happen you just kind of, said, like, man we're not
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  Speaker 4: going to practice at. All you just have to remember
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  Speaker 4: what you, achieved what you're capable. Of how can you play?
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  Speaker 4: Tennis and we just go To? VEGAS i, said what To?
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  Speaker 4: Vegas so we went To, Vegas bilajo, everything and you,
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  Speaker 4: know it was. Nice and THEN i arrived like five
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  Speaker 4: hours before the first, match AND i had no time
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  Speaker 4: to prepare and SO i just played BECAUSE i, simply
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  Speaker 4: AS i, said LIKE i was eighty five in a
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  Speaker 4: old losing every match to random people you know most
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  Speaker 4: of the. Time and, yeah so it worked like, this
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  Speaker 4: And i'm really happy that it, is but you, know
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  Speaker 4: it could have been the other way.
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  Speaker 1: Around i'm a relatively new. Dad how old is your?
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  Speaker 4: Children he's going to turn three very soon.
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  Speaker 1: When he gets to an age where he.
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  Speaker 2: Understands and you watch this match with, him what do
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  Speaker 2: you think he's going to learn about his.
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  Speaker 4: Dad i'll probably not watch it with, him. REALLY i,
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  Speaker 4: mean if he asks me about certain, MATCHES i will
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  Speaker 4: definitely tell him the. Stories BUT i think he has
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  Speaker 4: to live his own life and TOTAL i think he
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  Speaker 4: has to be. Himself he doesn't need to follow my,
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  Speaker 4: footsteps you. Know and if he's going to ask me
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  Speaker 4: about certain, MATCHES i will explain him. Everything but within
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  Speaker 4: the family it's important only Because i'm a tennis, player
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  Speaker 4: so he's. Not so why would make you? Know fake?
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  Speaker 4: It you? Know to be? Important you know how to
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  Speaker 4: be proud of your. FIGHT i don't THINK i think what.
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  Speaker 1: You did today was more than.
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  Speaker 2: TENNIS i keep looking at the tattoo and it says
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  Speaker 2: you won't break, me AND i feel like what you
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  Speaker 2: show today is who you are in terms of, resiliency
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  Speaker 2: AND i think that's something you can pass.
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  Speaker 4: Along sometimes it happens with. Me SOMETIMES i feel, like
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  Speaker 4: AS i, said there's one chance you blow.
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  Speaker 1: It it's your, problet your entire.
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  Speaker 2: Career you had four wins right here At Roland. Garros
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  Speaker 2: you have had four wins already this. Week an incredible.
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  Speaker 2: Run thank you for your honesty and thank you for
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  Speaker 2: sharing your. Time Alexander.
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  Speaker 1: Bublack thank you on to the quarter finals for the
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  Speaker 1: very first. Time