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Jannik Sinner Explains Loss vs. Juan Manuel Cerundolo - Full Press Conference | Roland-Garros 2026 · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: Yeah, any tough luck. Can you just tell us what
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  Speaker 1: happened out there and if you had a chance to
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  Speaker 1: talk to the medical team here.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I didn't feel I didn't feel very well on court,
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  Speaker 2: but it can happen. Was in a good spot, you know.
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  Speaker 2: Also third set, but I couldn't couldn't serve it out
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  Speaker 2: and then struggled quite a bit. But yeah, also congrats
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  Speaker 2: to him. I don't want to take I don't want
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  Speaker 2: to take anything away from him. I played a very
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  Speaker 2: solid match, especially also then, and that's the sport.
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  Speaker 1: And a really really tough one. I wonder if you
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  Speaker 1: could just describe kind of how you felt on what
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  Speaker 1: happened from that point at which you were kind of
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  Speaker 1: five one up.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I struggling to starting to feel very dizzy, very
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  Speaker 2: low of energy, and tried to serve it out, but
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  Speaker 2: then it didn't have a lot of energy. Ford set.
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  Speaker 2: I let it go a little bit, trying to have
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  Speaker 2: a bit more energy in the fifth very important game.
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  Speaker 2: The first one couldn't hold and then it went all
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  Speaker 2: a bit downwards. But yeah, woke up this morning, didn't
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  Speaker 2: feel very well and tried to keep the the points
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  Speaker 2: very short. Also in the beginning I was hitting very clean,
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  Speaker 2: very good, and and then I just kind of hit
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  Speaker 2: the wall and that's it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it came. When did you first I mean you
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  Speaker 1: said you weren't feeling great in the morning, but when
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  Speaker 1: did you first feel it in the match that things
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  Speaker 1: were starting to be difficult?
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  Speaker 2: Middle third set, even though I was playing some great
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  Speaker 2: tennis but really could couldn't find any energy. Today was
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  Speaker 2: a tough spot to be in. But again this is
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  Speaker 2: you know, the sport. It was warm, but not crazy warm.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like it was quite okay to play, and
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  Speaker 2: really it was nothing against the heat, nothing against the weather.
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  Speaker 2: Was just me today, which but it happens.
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  Speaker 3: And feeling just for physically sick or ill.
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  Speaker 1: In this morning or days before that as well, that
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  Speaker 1: you think was the main cause of low energy today.
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  Speaker 4: Tough to say.
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  Speaker 2: I think general many things can you know together, there's
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  Speaker 2: not only one. I played a lot and didn't have
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  Speaker 2: a lot of a lot of time to recover. I
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  Speaker 2: came here first match really good, really solid, but you
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  Speaker 2: know when you come back then the day day after,
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  Speaker 2: you still don't have a lot of time. Even though
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  Speaker 2: I finished late but not crazy late, and and yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I felt this morning, I did sleep very well, and
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  Speaker 2: this morning when I woke up, I was struggling a bit.
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  Speaker 2: But you know this can happen. Usually in Grand Slams
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  Speaker 2: you always have a couple of days where you don't
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  Speaker 2: feel perfect. This was what was today, and yeah, this
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  Speaker 2: this happened.
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  Speaker 3: How would you compare this to previous instances where you've
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  Speaker 3: had trouble on the court, like in Shanghai or in
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  Speaker 3: Australia in January? It was similar to that. There's tough,
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  Speaker 3: tough conditions today. I don't know. You said, not crazy warm,
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  Speaker 3: but tough, So I'm just curious.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think Shanghai was very tough for humidity, very high.
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  Speaker 2: Australia was very very warm. I do remember, And it's
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  Speaker 2: different when you play on hardcourt because the heat comes
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  Speaker 2: also underneath. And here was I mean, it was warm,
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  Speaker 2: but it was okay. You know, it was not like
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  Speaker 2: I was I was dying because of the heat. I
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  Speaker 2: think today was a completely different scenario. You know, I'm
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  Speaker 2: but again, you know this can happen. It's tough to accept,
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  Speaker 2: of course, because of the position where I've been in
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  Speaker 2: and everything considered. But yeah, now I have a lot
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  Speaker 2: of time to recover. I won't play any tournaments on
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  Speaker 2: grass before most likely, and now I need really some
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  Speaker 2: time off, recover completely also mentally, and then be ready
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  Speaker 2: to go again from Wimby.
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  Speaker 1: Bad luck. Yeah, as you said, the position you've been
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  Speaker 1: in obviously you've been performing so well. I know it's
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  Speaker 1: we'll coming off the court, but how do you think
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  Speaker 1: your kind of process and reflect on this result and
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  Speaker 1: particularly just the bad luck as of this coming in Islam. M.
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  Speaker 2: I always try to to look at the positive side.
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  Speaker 2: If you watch the whole clay swing very well, you know,
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  Speaker 2: played really really really good, winning three tournaments in our
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  Speaker 2: wrong clay coming here, I you know, I I also
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  Speaker 2: how I was playing tennis. I felt very well, you know,
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  Speaker 2: hitting the ball in a good way, moving well, and
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  Speaker 2: today was just not meant to be. You know. It's
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  Speaker 2: I think many things together, you know, because this this
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  Speaker 2: problem today, and but again it's it's it can happen.
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  Speaker 2: I just need my time now, you know, the process
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  Speaker 2: what went wrong here, and positive also that we can
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  Speaker 2: within good practice weeks before wimbib also because after after Wimby,
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  Speaker 2: we have important tournaments coming up with you know, Montreal
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  Speaker 2: and Montreal Toronto. I don't know, which one is this year?
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  Speaker 2: And Montreal and Cincinnati and US Open, so let's see,
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  Speaker 2: there are still plenty to play this year.
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  Speaker 4: Did you consider retiring at some point? And what what
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  Speaker 4: were your thoughts from one five in the third to
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  Speaker 4: the end in terms of shall I retail or not?
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  Speaker 4: And if I don't retire, what can I do to
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  Speaker 4: try to win? What are your thoughts flow?
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  Speaker 2: No, as I said the fourth said, I let go,
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  Speaker 2: you know, to recover also physically, and fifth set we
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  Speaker 2: all know everything can happen. But yeah, it was tough.
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  Speaker 2: I was a that spot that's in the fourth and
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  Speaker 2: also in the fifth. At some point I really was.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't have energy, really was very very flat, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the whole the whole body. I don't remember last time
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  Speaker 2: I felt this week, you know, But yeah, look it's
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  Speaker 2: it is what it is. I mean, I I tried
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  Speaker 2: to stay there and with all I had today and
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  Speaker 2: this was the maximum I head. Of course, a pity
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  Speaker 2: because I was playing really well first couple of sets,
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  Speaker 2: and also the third set was playing really well. But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that's that's the sport.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, do you have any regrets at all about playing
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  Speaker 5: so much in the build up to this tournament. Do
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  Speaker 5: you think potentially if you hadn't played one of those events,
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  Speaker 5: you would have felt with more energy here.
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  Speaker 2: You don't know. I mean, if I don't play Madrid,
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  Speaker 2: or if I don't play Role, maybe I come here
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  Speaker 2: and I still have a day like this, you know,
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  Speaker 2: where you feel sick. So you know, looking back, it's
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  Speaker 2: always very tough. In the same look, I won three
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  Speaker 2: tournaments on clay, incredible results, amazing streak I've I've had
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  Speaker 2: so of course, as I said in the beginning of
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  Speaker 2: the year, this is my main goal here and very
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  Speaker 2: early exit it's it's not it was not what I
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  Speaker 2: was looking for. But you also don't know if things
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  Speaker 2: would have changed, you know, if I would maybe skip
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  Speaker 2: Madrid and play only Rome, or maybe skipping Rome and
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  Speaker 2: to come here. You never know, so yeah, m hmm,