Telle une machine parfaitement rôdée, Jannik Sinner a écrasé un Alex Michelsen pourtant bien en forme, - finaliste à Winston-Salem la semaine passée - et soutenu par son public, ce jeudi, au deuxième tour de l'US Open. Un bouillon subi par l'Américain, 6-4, 6-0, 6-2 en 1h41. L'affaire de dopage est derrière Sinner visiblement. Le numéro 1 mondial est concentré sur son tennis. Il défiera l'Australien Christopher O'Connell, au prochain tour. En conférence de presse, l'Italien est revenu sur sa gestion de cette affaire et les critiques reçues.
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00:00Yeah, it was a little improvement for sure, but I'm looking to get better now in the next days.
00:12I had a small practice session after the match, so I'm trying to keep going,
00:21trying to understand what works here best in this court, and let's see what I can do in the next round.
00:27Name and affiliation, please. Everybody file in.
00:32We'll get everybody taken care of.
00:35My Italian friend's in the front.
00:37This gentleman had his hand up first. Go ahead.
00:40Congrats on the win, Yannick.
00:42Gary Nathan, Defector Media.
00:44I was wondering if you're planning on hiring a new full-time physio and trainer,
00:49if you're planning on hiring a physio and trainer, a new staff,
00:53and was it difficult to continue working with your old staff for a few months,
00:57even after you knew they made a mistake with the group?
00:59Yeah, of course it was a strange moment.
01:04Obviously, I don't want to talk about this at the moment.
01:09We are trying to understand who would be the best option now.
01:14Not easy, obviously, to find now in the middle of the season the physical trainer and the physio,
01:21but we try our best to find the best people.
01:29And then we'll see.
01:31After the US Open, hopefully I have something.
01:35So, let's see.
01:38Hi, Yannick. Catherine Whittaker, the Tennis Podcast.
01:40I don't know if you've seen, but Nick Kyrgios has been doing some on-court interviews this week.
01:45He's had some inflammatory things to say about you on social media.
01:49I just wondered if you'd thought about how you might feel being interviewed by him on the Arthrush Stadium?
01:56Yeah, I don't know.
02:01I don't want to respond on what he said.
02:07Everyone is free to say everything, so it's OK.
02:15If that is the case, let's see.
02:20It's going to be different, for sure.
02:30I don't know what to say.
02:32Maybe I say something now and then the reaction is going to be something else,
02:37because you live in this moment.
02:39But I'm always quite relaxed.
02:43I'm someone who forgets quite fast something.
02:48As I said, everyone is quite free to say everything.
02:53It is what it is.
02:55Yannick, even before all of this, what was your experience with online abuse and hateful messages?
03:03And how did you deal with it?
03:05A couple of players this week have talked about the experiences that they've had.
03:10Yeah, there's always going to be.
03:12There is socially something good and there is also the dark side.
03:16This is one of them.
03:22And everyone reacts in a different way.
03:28There are no secrets behind it.
03:32If I lose today, obviously some messages are coming in.
03:36But I try to be as less as possible on socials.
03:41Also because of that.
03:46It's like when you live something positive and you want to see socials
03:50and then you see compliments and then when you lose you see something a bit more negative.
03:55But that's how everything works.
03:59Just take it easy.
04:04We always try to do our best.
04:07Sometimes we win, sometimes we lose.
04:10I think trying to give our best, we won already.
04:17Regardless of the result.
04:21As I said, there are always going to be some people who are going to talk in a negative way.
04:26But that's also why you have the family, you have the close people who know you as a person.
04:32And then just stick with them because they give you the real values.
04:37So it's good.
04:46I'm not so much on socials, especially in the last period.
04:54I try to not look so much about this.
04:58I know that there are some negative messages.
05:05But it's something you have to be careful about, especially when you are younger.
05:09Because you care a lot about your reputation.
05:16But at the end of the day, that's why you have the close ones.
05:23They know you as a person and as an athlete.
05:28My advice is always to stick with them because they are very honest with you.
05:33And yeah, that's it.
05:34Bill.
05:36Bill Simons, Inside Tennis.
05:39You're number one in the world.
05:41You're still a very young man.
05:43Many before all this occurred felt that you've been really growing as a person and saying interesting things.
05:50My question is to you.
05:54What have you learned from this?
05:57And how do you think you're growing from all that's occurred?
06:04As I said, it helped me to see also who my friends are and who are not my friends.
06:13This is all part of a growing experience.
06:18I wish nobody has this experience to grow because this is a different way of experience.
06:24But you also realize that there is also a life outside of tennis, which is much more important than what we do.
06:38Because our daily routine is to hit tennis balls and go in the gym.
06:44But then you see that some people are sick.
06:48There are different things that come in my mind.
06:52And I said, OK, tennis is big for me because it showed me what I am as a person and how important the sport is.
07:01But in the other way, there is a life outside of tennis, which is even more important.
07:07Trying to be healthy, surround yourself with good people.
07:11That for me is more important.
07:15And then on the tennis court, obviously, I try to do my best.
07:18I try to fight and let the spectators enjoy the show.
07:27But for me, I believe that I have grown also as a person in this period, regardless of how everything is going.
07:37Which hopefully can help me then in the future.
07:40Who have been most helpful for you?
07:43My close ones, my daily ones, who I text with, who I talk with.
07:52This for me has been the most important people in this moment.
07:59But also, most likely these are people who know you already for a long time.
08:04Or these are people who I opened myself, trying to be close with them.
08:11So it's very important people.
08:18During the first set, we heard more than 15 planes above you.
08:24Is it something that bothers you or is it like normal life on a heart rush?
08:30Here you know that it's a bit more noisy.
08:33I didn't even realise so much the planes.
08:36You hear a bit of noise, but it's part of here.
08:43So I think we are all players.