00:00 The road to number one is not only successes.
00:02 We need to take the lessons, we need to understand,
00:04 and we need to find solutions to go further.
00:07 That's basically the job.
00:08 Now if I look back at him in October and him now,
00:15 I think he's a different player.
00:17 He grew a lot, he developed a lot, he won a lot.
00:21 He was third in the world in October,
00:23 he's now fifth or sixth, which is not the final destination,
00:26 but he made a big step.
00:28 He won a lot, he's also tired physically, mentally.
00:31 It's not an excuse, but it's a fact.
00:33 And I think it's time to sit down and think
00:35 what the good things that have been done,
00:37 but also what needs to be done in the future
00:39 to the next evolution from a top 10 player,
00:42 a solid top 10, because now what we can say
00:44 is a solid top 10, to a potential number one
00:47 and a Grand Slam winner.
00:48 If you just look at his ranking and the result,
00:51 it's logic, but it's disappointing to lose in quarters
00:54 because that's not the goal.
00:55 The goal is not to play your level,
00:58 but to play your future level and continue to develop.
01:01 So now when Holger plays a Grand Slam, it's to win it.
01:04 Not that before it was not to win it,
01:05 but before it was more difficult to imagine winning it.
01:08 When you do a season on clay,
01:10 you reach to a Masters 1000 final and win a title,
01:13 and you're number six in the world,
01:14 and you're clearly on your way up.
01:16 You can't imagine winning it, and you have to aim,
01:19 and we do aim at winning Grand Slams.
01:20 So that's why it's disappointing,
01:22 because he didn't win it.
01:23 To stop in quarters is not the result that is expected.
01:25 If you think you wake up tomorrow and you're number one,
01:28 that's not the right way to think.
01:30 Everything is a journey to success
01:33 with, again, development and wins.
01:35 So you need to experience the failures
01:37 to understand what you do wrong,
01:39 what you should, maybe a behavior, maybe a shot,
01:44 maybe a combination of shots,
01:45 maybe a percentage of a serve,
01:48 whatever it is, to keep moving up.
01:51 I think mentally he was extremely tired,
01:54 not only from his previous match in five sets,
01:57 but more than that, the whole clay season,
01:59 the whole year, the whole eight months
02:01 that were crazy in a way,
02:03 and the last weeks before the Slam,
02:05 and I think it can be also a lesson to play, of course,
02:08 to play to win, but not to overplay.
02:10 And there is a fine line there to find
02:13 between playing and overplaying.
02:14 When you are emotionally exhausted in tennis,
02:17 it's not one reason.
02:19 It's a combination of many factors
02:21 that play the role.
02:22 So again, the clay season, a lot of matches,
02:24 a lot of emotions, won a lot,
02:27 but also paid the price for winning.
02:28 There is always a price.
02:29 Started the Rangaros tired, and this five-set match.
02:32 But also a new status.
02:34 He came to Rangaros being not a favorite.
02:37 There are two favorites, Alkaraz and Djokovic,
02:39 but being one of the main outsiders.
02:42 Probably two, three guys that were very serious outsiders,
02:45 and he was one of them.
02:46 So this just brings the expectation to the higher level,
02:49 and you have much more pressure.
02:50 I mean, I think it's great with pressure,
02:52 but it's new, and when something new comes to you,
02:55 there is always a little time for adaptation,
02:58 and I think this also burned a lot of mental energy.
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