Tennis - Shanghai 2024 - Carlos Alcaraz on Jannik Sinner friendship : "It's cool"
Rivaux et amis. La relation entre Carlos Alcaraz et Jannik Sinner est passionnante. A 17h30, heure chinoise, "Carlitos" a livré un combat épique contre le numéro 1 mondial. L'Espagnol est sorti vainqueur d'une joute de 3h24 pour s'adjuger l'ATP 500 de Pékin. Les deux hommes ont échangé des marques de respect lors des discours. Preuve de leur amitié. Mais ce n'est pas tout. Pour se rendre rapidement à Shanghai, Sinner, Alcaraz, et les deux teams, ont partagé un avion pour ce vol d'environ deux heures. Deux rivaux pas comme les autres.
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00:00I couldn't do too much after the final, what I have to do after the final, I went to do
00:20press and I took a shower, I was running because we had to take the flight to come here, so
00:31I just did everything in a rush, we took the flight, we arrived here in Shanghai super late
00:40so I couldn't sleep as much as I wanted but I'm happy to be here in Shanghai, I'm happy
00:48to feel that I'm able to play here in Shanghai once again, so I'm really happy about Beijing
00:56and now focus here in Shanghai.
01:07Carlos, congratulations on your win in Beijing yesterday, you obviously have an incredible
01:13rivalry with Yannick Sinner but you also seem to have a great friendship with him as well,
01:17I wondered if you could expand a little bit on that and whether you spend any time off court,
01:22say going to dinner or doing anything else besides tennis?
01:26Well, we don't talk too much when we are around obviously, we have a really good relationship
01:35off the court as well, I think we both respect each other a lot as a player, as a person
01:42but once we are on tour, travelling, doing tournaments, when we are on site,
01:53we are with our team, in our own, so we don't speak too much, but when we can,
02:02we talk a little bit besides tennis about life a little bit but not too much, but
02:09it means we have a good relationship but we are not close friends, but I think
02:19the respect that we have put in a position that we have a really good relationship.
02:32Your next opponent is Shang Jun Cheng, have you known him before and what kind of preparation
02:39are you going to do? I have played against him just once, it was an Australian Open,
02:49he got injured so after that I didn't practice with him, I didn't play against him so I have
03:00watched his matches a little bit, I know that he has a really good potential, really good tennis,
03:08but I'm going to approach the match the same way that I'm approaching every match,
03:14prepare as best as I can, I have two days to get used to these conditions here in Shanghai,
03:22to be ready for the first match, I hope to keep playing the same way that I'm playing
03:28and let's see what's going to happen, but I'll be ready.
03:38Hi, thank you, congratulations on last night, I was just thinking when you were describing
03:42your schedule over the last 12 hours, I know you've been quite vocal about the schedule of
03:48tennis in the past and I just wondered, do you feel you're going to have enough time to recover
03:54from that three-hour final last night to this tournament again today,
03:59can you just talk a little about what your feelings are about that?
04:03Well, I say so many times, the tennis schedule is so tight,
04:11but we have to get used to it or I guess we have to, yesterday we finished
04:20at 8.39, three hours match and then I had no time to do anything else, so I just went to the
04:34club before the final with all the bags because I knew that we had to run after the final to
04:41take the flight to come here, we arrived at 4am just to be ready or just to have some sleep here
04:51in Shanghai and wake up here in Shanghai just to, as I said, to get used to the conditions here
04:58and try to be ready for my first match, but the tennis schedule is so, so tight,
05:07and we were travelling from tournament to tournament with just one or two days
05:15before the tournament began, so it is difficult but we have to get used to it.
05:27Carlos, after your incredible run at Roland Garros and Wimbledon, the Olympics, there was a slight
05:33dip in the US season, but you seem to have your energy back here
05:37in Asia, what's been the difference?
05:42Practice, I had a really good month of practice after the American swing, of course
05:52the Davis Cup and the Lever Cup helped me a lot to get the energy back, to get motivated again,
06:00I love playing teams competitions, the Davis Cup with the players, with their team,
06:12with the Spanish Federation as well, all the people who are around just to help me to be better
06:21and feeling great off the court as well, that for me is really important, and in the Lever Cup
06:27same thing, so those competitions helped me a lot to get the joy back on the court and
06:36let's say being focused on what's next, so I came here to Asia with a lot of energy,
06:44enjoy every single second that I step on the court and that for me is really important,
06:50so right now I'm ready for the next tournaments, I really want to play the next tournaments,
06:58and have the joy back, so it was a great month of preparation, hard working with my team,
07:07and of course feeling great off the court with everyone, so for me it was a great time.
07:17So Carlos, how many hours did you actually sleep when you arrived in Shanghai,
07:21and can you share the plan for the day in order to prepare the tournament and your first round
07:27match? Well I just had six hours to sleep, so I couldn't sleep more, and yeah now I came here,
07:39today I'm gonna rest a little bit, that I think I need it, and tomorrow I'm gonna start practicing,
07:45and then Saturday I'm gonna try to play my best, but yeah I will try to get used to as much as I
07:54can in just one practice, one hour, one hour and a half, let's see, but I think I'll be ready,
07:59but yeah as I said, we have not too much time to practice, to get these conditions,
08:06but as a tennis player we have to do it.