Q: Alex, a big tournament for you, now inside the top 50, defeated many top opponents. What would you take away from this week overall?
A: The points and the prize money. No, it was a great week.Today was not enough to beat Seba, he was playing very well. High intensity and physically I was not at my best. I mean, he was just better than me today, so congrats to him. I did my best, it was not enough.
Q: Congratulations for the week. How would you explain Sebastian's game because he was definitely playing unbelievable. You played really good as well, but, we thought that maybe he was not in the same level and he was over you almost like all the match.
A: I think he was a little bit over me. Physically it was tough for me. I had a great battle yesterday against Comesana and today I felt it was a little bit more difficult. I was trying to be very aggressive, but every time he played very, very deep, his defense was very well, so it was tough for me to make him move and I think he played very well today.
Q: Alex, you are number 11 in the race at the moment, does that change the way you look at your goals for the next, for the rest of the season in terms of ranking? Do you have something in mind maybe for the end of the year at the moment?
A: Not for the moment. Maybe I'm gonna take some week off. Like for example, I don't know, Marrakesh after Miami, some stuff like this, but for the moment nothing changed. I have my flight tonight at 1am to Acapulco. So life is still the same, sorry.
Q: Alex, there were three French players in this wing, you, Moutet and Gaston. I would like to, to ask why did many players from France came to the swing this year, considering, of course, you have Montpellier and Marseille at this same stage of the year, and if you would have to address fellow French players, would you recommend them to play this kind of tournaments?
A: I think it's only because they like to play on clay. We have lot of good players in France, but maybe the results from Fils last year was not as he expected so he decided to play, I think Dubai, I don't know, but I think he was injured during Rotterdam. Umbert, I think he's better on hard court. So, I don't know. I choose for myself South America this year, uh, because I love clay.And I think it was a good choice, so I'm happy.
Q: Alex, even though you killed our dream of seeing João Fonseca going through the competition, you still had like a huge support from the crowd here today. How do you take that?
A: It was nice. I said thank you to the crowd at the ceremony because they were super nice with me during all the week. I said sorry directly after my victory, so I think people liked me or I don't know. They were super nice with me.
A: The points and the prize money. No, it was a great week.Today was not enough to beat Seba, he was playing very well. High intensity and physically I was not at my best. I mean, he was just better than me today, so congrats to him. I did my best, it was not enough.
Q: Congratulations for the week. How would you explain Sebastian's game because he was definitely playing unbelievable. You played really good as well, but, we thought that maybe he was not in the same level and he was over you almost like all the match.
A: I think he was a little bit over me. Physically it was tough for me. I had a great battle yesterday against Comesana and today I felt it was a little bit more difficult. I was trying to be very aggressive, but every time he played very, very deep, his defense was very well, so it was tough for me to make him move and I think he played very well today.
Q: Alex, you are number 11 in the race at the moment, does that change the way you look at your goals for the next, for the rest of the season in terms of ranking? Do you have something in mind maybe for the end of the year at the moment?
A: Not for the moment. Maybe I'm gonna take some week off. Like for example, I don't know, Marrakesh after Miami, some stuff like this, but for the moment nothing changed. I have my flight tonight at 1am to Acapulco. So life is still the same, sorry.
Q: Alex, there were three French players in this wing, you, Moutet and Gaston. I would like to, to ask why did many players from France came to the swing this year, considering, of course, you have Montpellier and Marseille at this same stage of the year, and if you would have to address fellow French players, would you recommend them to play this kind of tournaments?
A: I think it's only because they like to play on clay. We have lot of good players in France, but maybe the results from Fils last year was not as he expected so he decided to play, I think Dubai, I don't know, but I think he was injured during Rotterdam. Umbert, I think he's better on hard court. So, I don't know. I choose for myself South America this year, uh, because I love clay.And I think it was a good choice, so I'm happy.
Q: Alex, even though you killed our dream of seeing João Fonseca going through the competition, you still had like a huge support from the crowd here today. How do you take that?
A: It was nice. I said thank you to the crowd at the ceremony because they were super nice with me during all the week. I said sorry directly after my victory, so I think people liked me or I don't know. They were super nice with me.
