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Novak Djokovic Reacts To Shocking Loss vs. João Fonseca - Full Press Conference | Roland-Garros 2026 · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: I know that.
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  Speaker 2: Just your thoughts overall on the match, Well.
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  Speaker 3: Incredible match to be part of.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously tough one for me to lose, being two sets
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  Speaker 2: to love up, but huge credit to Joal for really
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  Speaker 2: deserving to win the match. I think he, without a doubt,
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  Speaker 2: was a better player, and important moments in those crucial
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  Speaker 2: fourth and fifth you know, some amazing exchanges and points
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  Speaker 2: and he just yeah, he found incredible shots lines.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it was just amazing from his side.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously not great for me to be facing player playing
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  Speaker 2: in such level.
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  Speaker 3: But.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think I've done too much wrong with
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  Speaker 2: my game.
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  Speaker 3: It's just that he was just better.
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  Speaker 4: I know that.
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  Speaker 3: Tough luck today.
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  Speaker 5: With Carlos Sideline Yanich losing yesterday, Did your mind begin
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  Speaker 5: to sort of dance and jam and think about it?
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  Speaker 3: So I'll stop you right there.
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  Speaker 2: You just lost their round. Let's just talk about something else.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you.
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  Speaker 5: No, just in general, what was your belief level now
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  Speaker 5: looking back at this tournament about your readiness for playing here?
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  Speaker 5: You have now played a ton of tennis office this year,
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  Speaker 5: and you thought that was a factor in this matches
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  Speaker 5: as it went on, around.
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  Speaker 2: Of hours I played in three matches here, felt like
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  Speaker 2: I played every tournament in.
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  Speaker 3: The last three months, honest.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, I think I was playing good tennis, really
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  Speaker 2: good level. I you know, considering you know, I was
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  Speaker 2: injured and for three months and trying to come back,
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  Speaker 2: and then you know, going pretty much straight into Grand
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  Speaker 2: Slam on this surface that you know, it was very
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  Speaker 2: demanding and for me it takes takes more time to
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  Speaker 2: get used to kind of find my groove. But you know,
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  Speaker 2: taking everything in consideration and all the circumstances, I think.
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  Speaker 3: You know, the level level was really good.
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  Speaker 2: I mean I was happy with my level of course
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  Speaker 2: right now, being disappointed right off the court.
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  Speaker 3: Losing being close to win it, and yeah, that's what
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  Speaker 3: I can say.
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  Speaker 6: Uh No, like you here, hond You're right. We know
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  Speaker 6: you are very gracious in defeats with your opponents. We
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  Speaker 6: saw you talking to Joe.
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  Speaker 3: At the net.
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  Speaker 6: If you want to say, yes, what you told him,
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  Speaker 6: We're happy to have the information. But more globally speaking,
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  Speaker 6: how do you see his potential, his future, his game,
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  Speaker 6: the tennis player he is today and he might be tomorrow.
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  Speaker 2: Well, of course I congratulated him and told him that
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  Speaker 2: he deserved to win, and played an unbelievable match, and
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  Speaker 2: you should be proud of himself and wishing him good
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  Speaker 2: luck for the rest of the tournament. The kind of
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  Speaker 2: level of tennis we've seen him play created a lot
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  Speaker 2: of hype around him, and I think we all seen
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  Speaker 2: today why there is hype around him.
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  Speaker 3: So just the level was amazing.
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  Speaker 4: Novak regarding the outcome today and the results, do you
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  Speaker 4: realize the legacy you're leaving us with thirty nine years
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  Speaker 4: old playing five sets in grand slaps like this.
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  Speaker 2: Tough to reflect on this right now, if you would
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  Speaker 2: understand me. But at the same time, a couple of
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  Speaker 2: times where I felt like I was barely standing on
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  Speaker 2: my legs, you know, towards the end of the match,
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  Speaker 2: and looking at the crowd and seeing them lift my
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  Speaker 2: spirits and board me was something really magical, honestly.
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  Speaker 3: So I.
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  Speaker 2: When I take out all the disappointment and you know,
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  Speaker 2: negative thoughts about the match, you know that there's there's
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  Speaker 2: a lot to be proud about what I've been through,
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  Speaker 2: what I experienced, you know, and I'm very grateful for.
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  Speaker 3: This kind of experience. Yeah, no, that will we see
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  Speaker 3: you back at Rolling Garretts next year? I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: Would it be okay if that was your last match
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  Speaker 5: against to play against a player like that, I don't know.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, it was about having fan seca you you obviously
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  Speaker 7: played a great, great match, and I was basically going
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  Speaker 7: to ask about if you see him maybe as the
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  Speaker 7: next next achieving great things.
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  Speaker 2: In the hopefully, and he definitely has the potential to
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  Speaker 2: do that.
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  Speaker 3: Things have to come together.
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  Speaker 2: And of course he's very professional from what I've seen
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  Speaker 2: so far the last couple of years he's been on
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  Speaker 2: the tour, which is preconditioned for success.
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  Speaker 3: Talent, he's got, firepower.
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  Speaker 2: He's got and the whole Brazilian nation, you know, cheering
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  Speaker 2: him up. So there's a lot of excitement around him, rightfully,
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  Speaker 2: so so hopefully he can be the next great.
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  Speaker 3: Thing, you know, win Slams. You know, I definitely wish
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  Speaker 3: to see that one more in English. Not your first.
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  Speaker 8: So sorry. Well, watching the first two sets, had the
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  Speaker 8: impression that you were always choosing the right choice. You
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  Speaker 8: were always making the right choice, and he was playing
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  Speaker 8: a little bit like a jor Did you have the
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  Speaker 8: impression that you were the one who could decide the
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  Speaker 8: match in the when you were still pressure that there
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  Speaker 8: was something missing probably because of lack of energies.
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  Speaker 2: Well, if it would be nice if it was best
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  Speaker 2: of three, but it's not. And yeah, just I ran
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  Speaker 2: out of guests.
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  Speaker 3: To be honest, I.
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  Speaker 2: Didn't feel didn't feel good at all on the court
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  Speaker 2: in the next couple of sets, you know, I think
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  Speaker 2: and of the fourth was my chance. I felt like
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  Speaker 2: best chance for three fifteen forty. He just played really
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  Speaker 2: good points. I mean he was attacking. He was I mean,
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  Speaker 2: pig serves. When I look back in important moments, could
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  Speaker 2: I have done something different?
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  Speaker 3: You know, you can always say yes, but.
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  Speaker 2: You just have to say well done and congratulate him
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  Speaker 2: heads off. I mean, he just played lights out tennis.
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  Speaker 2: Every time there was a decisive moment, he went for it.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe the only my fault was three to one in
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  Speaker 2: the fifth and serving and when I dropped the surf.
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  Speaker 2: But again, he played a couple of very aggressive points
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  Speaker 2: and any ball coming to his forehand, around the forehand,
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  Speaker 2: mid fourhands, he was crashing it and it was really
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  Speaker 2: hard to read. And he was just playing with extreme.
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  Speaker 3: Pace and.
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  Speaker 2: Break point to come back to the match three aces
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  Speaker 2: and what can you do? You know, with strongest aces,
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  Speaker 2: He's got the whole match to twenty two fifteen.
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  Speaker 3: So you know the only thing you can say is
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  Speaker 3: well done. That's that's it.
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