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Andre Agassi Reacts to Alexander Zverev Advancing to the Roland-Garros Final · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: He's on eighteen of his last twenty matches at Roland Garros.
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  Speaker 1: It's now made the finals two of the last three years.
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  Speaker 1: Everything you go, how was he not one one yet?
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  Speaker 1: He just dispatched Hodar, Now he dispatches ben Chikan from
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  Speaker 1: an chic just twenty Definitely a breakout star, many more
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  Speaker 1: years to come, but Zverev handles business at vances. Have
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  Speaker 1: you had enough time to process?
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  Speaker 2: I guess I have. I guess I have. You know,
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  Speaker 2: I mean a little bit disappointing my match, I have
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  Speaker 2: to say, I mean, you got to give always credit
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  Speaker 2: to the winner. There's two guys out there. You got
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  Speaker 2: to be better than one person. It's all that's really
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  Speaker 2: asked to Goad. And you know, Mensik's twenty, he's young,
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  Speaker 2: he's been through a lot physically this tournament. He's been
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  Speaker 2: through a lot mentally, So who knows. Who knows how
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  Speaker 2: that played out. But I have to say that if
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  Speaker 2: I was MENSI and I flew my mental coach in
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  Speaker 2: first class, he's going back coach. I mean, Phillips make
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  Speaker 2: him walk back or something. Because he had three four
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  Speaker 2: you know, first said fifteen forty. He had an opportunity
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  Speaker 2: with the forehand laid off of it a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: For all, he gets four you know, shanks in a
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  Speaker 2: row off of Zerev's forehand. So I think all of
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  Speaker 2: a sudden he started to realize, maybe maybe making this
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  Speaker 2: match difficult, it's a real possibility, maybe I have a shot.
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  Speaker 2: From that point on, he just he kind of lost
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  Speaker 2: the plot a little bit. And I think if you
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  Speaker 2: if he had a point to something, he maybe could
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  Speaker 2: have done different. I mean, I still feel even in hindsight,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he's going after Zarev's forehand, and he's going
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  Speaker 2: after it so often that he's actually grooving him into,
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  Speaker 2: you know, into feeling good. And then when you go
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  Speaker 2: to the back end you realize what a weapon it is.
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  Speaker 2: You have to be able to stay with Rev a
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  Speaker 2: little bit backhand to back end. Then you have to
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  Speaker 2: go to his forehand, make him take that swing when
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  Speaker 2: he might not want to. But you definitely can't go
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  Speaker 2: to the drop shots so many times until you get
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  Speaker 2: somebody backed up on their heels, you know, and he's
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  Speaker 2: not backed up on his heels, you know, when you're
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  Speaker 2: pressing against your greatest straints. I mean, Mensig's forehand pull
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  Speaker 2: from inside in is not how he's going to penetrate
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  Speaker 2: the court against this guy, even though it's to you know,
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  Speaker 2: Zerev's strength, He needed to pounded there. He needed to
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  Speaker 2: stick to his his strength so that he could at
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  Speaker 2: least feel the best of himself. And I never felt
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  Speaker 2: like he quite made that adjustment. And then when he
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  Speaker 2: lost that first set, gave him a quickly in the second.
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  Speaker 2: Definitely came back in the third. We didn't expect. But
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  Speaker 2: that foreset again. Right when the pressure starts to build,
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  Speaker 2: let him off the hook, and you don't want anybody
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  Speaker 2: with that kind of runway like the rev. He's going
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  Speaker 2: to take it and run with it.
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  Speaker 1: Just to back you up. Only four fourhand winners for
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  Speaker 1: Manshka in this match, fifteen for Zverev or Mary Joe
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  Speaker 1: Fernandez caught up was Verev after the win.
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  Speaker 3: Sasha, Congratulations, that was a terrific performance. You're back into
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  Speaker 3: the row in Garos final. You have your mom, your dad,
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  Speaker 3: your brother, your grandmother here. So what does this moment
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  Speaker 3: mean to you?
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  Speaker 4: Not much at the moment. We still have a match
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  Speaker 4: to play on Sunday, and that's what we're here for.
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  Speaker 4: That's what we're focusing on. I want to play the
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  Speaker 4: best possible match and just focus on that.
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  Speaker 3: You've only lost two sets getting into the final. What
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  Speaker 3: are you proud of us of, not just today, but
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  Speaker 3: throughout these last two weeks.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I've always found a way even when
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  Speaker 4: it got difficult. I feel like today started playing amazing
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  Speaker 4: tennis in the third set, and I you know, found
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  Speaker 4: a way straight away in the fourth set. And today
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  Speaker 4: definitely was the toughest challenge. He played some amazing tennis
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  Speaker 4: throughout the entire two weeks, and yeah, I'm happy with
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  Speaker 4: the win for sure.
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  Speaker 3: Congratulations, good luck on the final. Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: In addition to the Mary Joe interview, he was asked
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  Speaker 1: afterwards about how he feels. He said, quote, we are athletes.
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  Speaker 1: We usually don't have too much in our heads. Sometimes
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  Speaker 1: it's easier to be stupid. So Zverev a little bit
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  Speaker 1: light hearted after a win that was seemingly easy. What
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  Speaker 1: did you think about the performance today?
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  Speaker 5: Well, I thought he came out and played really well.
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  Speaker 5: He played solid, but he was never really pushed. It
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  Speaker 5: seemed like he'd already won the match before the first
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  Speaker 5: ball was really hit. I didn't feel like Min's sheep
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  Speaker 5: really gave it a push. I would have liked to
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  Speaker 5: have seen him come out firing from the first set.
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  Speaker 5: You know, he played well in the third set, but
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  Speaker 5: that was a little too late at that point. I
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  Speaker 5: think you have someone in Zverev who's been there so
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  Speaker 5: many times before. He's felt the pressure. But you know,
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  Speaker 5: unless you're one all in sets and you really go
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  Speaker 5: toe to toe to toe, I just think Zverev has
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  Speaker 5: too much experiences induced moments and I don't see him
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  Speaker 5: losing in the next match either. I think he is
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  Speaker 5: going to cruise through and he's going to win his
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  Speaker 5: first time here.
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  Speaker 1: Sloana. Is now a twenty nine match win streak for
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  Speaker 1: Zverev against players outside the top ten.
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  Speaker 6: He's consistent. He beats the people he should beat, and
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  Speaker 6: that's I think exactly what this tournament is the people
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  Speaker 6: in front of him. You only have to beat the
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  Speaker 6: opponents in front of you, and that's what he's done
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  Speaker 6: so far. And I think for him, this is the
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  Speaker 6: tournament for him to win. It's also the tournament for
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  Speaker 6: him to lose. He will never probably I won't say
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  Speaker 6: he'll never, but he won't have another opportunity with Janik,
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  Speaker 6: with al Kharaz, with no back with all of those
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  Speaker 6: players out that would really be pushing him in the
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  Speaker 6: semis or assignment.
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  Speaker 5: The point cele.
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  Speaker 1: They are honestly Andre we were going to say about
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  Speaker 1: for you, that's a little.
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  Speaker 2: Route right there. Yeah, we are bringing.
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  Speaker 5: The festivities here.
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  Speaker 2: Go home. To get hold of the township, they had
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  Speaker 2: to
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  Speaker 1: Appear to Paris, France well