00:00 Yeah, very tough match.
00:02 I think Marqueta played the right match to win this final.
00:07 And yeah, I'm going to learn from it and hopefully come back stronger.
00:12 The Princess of Wales spoke to you afterwards
00:19 and I saw that she gave you a hug as well.
00:21 What did she say and what does that mean?
00:27 Same thing after last year, to encourage me and to be strong,
00:31 to come back and win at Grasland, win at Wimbledon.
00:37 Obviously, she was very nice and she didn't know if she wanted to give me a hug or not.
00:43 So I told her, you know, hugs are always welcome with me.
00:46 So that was a very nice moment and she's always nice to me.
00:50 Were you consulted at all about the closure of the roof?
00:55 And do you think it had any impact on the match?
00:59 Because she's been playing pretty well indoors this week.
01:03 I honestly didn't focus much on that.
01:07 But yeah, I don't know, maybe it helped her today to play good and put more ball in.
01:14 I don't know if the roof was open, would have been a different story maybe for both of us.
01:20 But yeah, it is what it is. It happened.
01:23 So I'm very happy for her that she won her first Grand Slam.
01:26 I know she's a player that has been very injured a lot of times.
01:31 So I wish her all the best and hopefully she can win more Grand Slams.
01:35 I believe Kim Kleistas, Chris Evert and Simona Halep all lost their first three Grand Slam finals.
01:45 Four actually. Kim was just telling me.
01:48 We were crying together at the locker room.
01:53 How much inspiration do you take from the fact that great players have been in the position you are now?
01:57 And I wonder, for someone like Kim to come and take time with you like that must mean a lot as well.
02:02 I love Kim so much. She's a great inspiration for me.
02:08 I grew up watching her a bit and the fact that she takes the time to give me advice,
02:16 to really hug me and always be there for me, I think it's priceless.
02:22 She was telling me all the time that she lost four, I think.
02:25 That's why I know the information. Otherwise it would have been tough.
02:29 But yeah, I think that's the positive part of it.
02:32 You cannot force things. It wasn't meant to be.
02:41 What were you feeling in the minutes before the match as you were walking towards the court?
02:47 What was going through your mind at that point?
02:50 Honestly, I felt a lot of pressure, feeling a lot of stress.
02:55 But like every final, like every match I played, I was telling myself it's okay, it's normal.
03:04 I honestly did nothing wrong. I did everything that I could.
03:09 But yeah, I think things take time with me.
03:12 Again, I said it wasn't meant to be this time.
03:18 Hopefully I will be like the others that failed a couple of times to do it and will come after.
03:26 What do you do when you're on the court to try and fight through that, the stress and the nerves?
03:36 A lot of breathing, a lot of positive talks.
03:40 I try to tell myself that nothing is over. It's going to get better maybe.
03:49 I'm used to losing the first set in the last few matches.
03:54 So I had hoped that maybe it would be better in the next few games.
04:00 But obviously not. So I don't know.
04:03 We'll keep doing what I'm doing. We'll keep learning for sure.
04:06 Because I think that's the key for me.
04:08 Hi, Hans. Well fought.
04:12 First of all, when you said Marqueta played the right match today, what did you mean by that?
04:17 And then I wanted to ask, we saw that you had to change your warm-up clothes after you came out in all black.
04:21 Was that just other things on your mind this morning?
04:23 Oh no, I completely forgot the white rules.
04:26 When you go into a match court, you just dress up as normal clothes.
04:34 And for me, I completely forgot that today I was warming up on centre court, that it has to be all white.
04:40 But yeah, I don't know. It was an honest mistake.
04:45 I think Marqueta just put the ball in, slices a lot.
04:50 I believe that it was a completely different match from the last three that I had.
04:56 So maybe adapting to her rhythm was very difficult for me, plus the pressure and the stress of the final.
05:01 I didn't think she made a lot of mistakes.
05:05 I thought she served good.
05:07 And I think she played maybe a perfect final for herself.
05:16 You said that it's a new you playing at this year's Wimbledon.
05:20 But you have also mentioned that you felt pressure and stress.
05:24 How are you going to cope with that and how are you going to cope with the expectations that continue to grow from your fans?
05:31 The same thing that I've been doing the last few years.
05:36 I've been having more pressure.
05:38 The more good results that I do, the more pressure I feel.
05:41 But it is what it is.
05:44 Like I said, I cannot force anything right now.
05:47 It wasn't meant to be.
05:49 Definitely this match, last year's match, the final of the US Open, will teach me how to win these finals.
05:58 And we'll definitely keep learning, keep being positive.
06:02 I think that's the thing that will keep me going.
06:05 Because otherwise, if I'm going to be depressed about it, it's not going to help much.
06:10 So I'll try to stay positive.
06:13 You said on court that you felt this was the most painful loss of your career.
06:19 I know it's difficult, but can you put into words why it hurts more than the others?
06:24 Because I already lost two finals and this is the third one.
06:28 I don't know. I felt I was doing everything right.
06:31 Again, with the same thing that happened last year.
06:38 It's painful because you feel so close to achieving something that you want.
06:43 And then actually back to the square one.
06:46 But again, just try to get rid of these negative thoughts and continue being positive.
06:54 You said Marqueta played the right match today.
06:59 Does that mean you feel you played the wrong match?
07:01 Or was it execution?
07:03 I did play good.
07:05 I didn't think I played good today.
07:08 So many things that I should have maybe done.
07:10 Not serving well did not help.
07:13 But also Marqueta returned every ball.
07:17 Even if I did a good serve, she was there.
07:20 That didn't help my serve much.
07:22 My backhand wasn't here today.
07:25 Again, I think playing two different players the last few matches did not help too.
07:33 I don't think I played good as well, but that doesn't take away the match that Marqueta did.
07:38 Despite the loss, you've now been to three of the last five major finals.
07:46 Other players can't make that claim.
07:48 What do you think your position is right now in the game?
07:51 Again, that's a positive thing that maybe I should focus on.
07:56 Along being a side of the players that didn't make the cross-slam.
08:02 The first three finals maybe.
08:04 I think, hopefully, I will be able to take the confidence out of it.
08:10 And consider myself as a consistent player.
08:14 Take this experience as good ones, but not bad ones to continue and improve my game.
08:21 Be the player that I want to be.
08:26 But I know this thing, maybe with me, will take years.
08:31 And I will go for it.
08:33 I will put enough work for it.
08:35 For me, my goal is to be a really good, consistent player.
08:40 And unlock whatever is going to come.
08:44 Learn from this match, for sure.
08:47 And hopefully, I want to be one of the players that could win Grand Slams.
08:55 That's what.
08:57 Take two more English.
08:59 This is Mohamed Taf from the BBC World Service.
09:02 You were advancing 3-1 in both sets.
09:05 Do you remember you were changing something at this moment?
09:09 Or she was changing something?
09:11 I think it's related to the fact that I didn't serve really well.
09:14 I was able to break both times, but very difficult to...
09:19 I didn't have the feeling that I was controlling my serve.
09:23 I was maybe troubling her a little bit.
09:27 So that's why it was very difficult for me to win that serve game.
09:31 I wish I was able to hold.
09:34 Especially in the first set.
09:36 Maybe it could have been a different match.
09:38 They were saying on TV that you changed your lock screen to your niece?
09:45 Yeah, my niece and nephew.
09:47 Was there a reason you changed from the trophy to your family?
09:51 I don't know. The trophy didn't work last year.
09:53 So I thought maybe...
09:55 I always put my niece's photo and the nephew's new member of the family.
10:00 So I needed to add him too.
10:02 I love them so much and they bring so much joy to me.
10:06 And I wish...
10:09 They give me a lot of love.
10:11 So seeing them every day on the screen makes me happy.
10:14 makes me happy.
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