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.
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