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Lexus presents tennis on Sky Sports. Try and describe your emotions of not only winning your first Italian Open, but completing the set of nine Masters 1000 titles. yeah, amazing, you know. Um you know, it has been already since first time here 2019 playing first time here in uh and this court actually I always felt as a very special tournament for me and you know, now saying that I won this tournament here, it means a lot to me. It's important also for Italy, you know, uh 50 years back exactly this year, you know, it's uh it's a big number. Um but you know, I'm very happy to make, you know, Italians happy. We are such a strong group with many
other Italian players playing incredible tennis and so our chances are getting always higher and higher to win, you know, and talking about Italy at the moment, so I'm very happy to be part of this moment. And describe how hard this run you've been on and then coming here mentally, emotionally dealing with the long matches, the rain delays and trying to please the home crowd. Yeah, a lot of tension, especially today in the final I felt a lot of tension, but I tried to control my emotions in the best possible way and um it's also this kind of, you know, a learning process. I feel like, you know, I cannot know everything when I'm 24 years old and um but look, I'm I'm very happy how we handle this situation, you know, as I
said here down court, you know, thanks also to my physical trainer and then send physio and osteopath to put, you know, also the body in the best possible shape and because those you know, without them it's not possible, so um it's uh it's it's a big teamwork. And small celebration tonight? Uh I might be a big one, actually. Could be. You deserve it. Well done. Thank you so much.
