00:00It was great. As the match went on, there was more and more people.
00:04You feel like people are used to seeing great players here.
00:09It's a great event. Since I've been here, everything's been really in place
00:13for us to get ready to train and to recover and get ready for the matches.
00:19It was fun. It was fun to be out there again.
00:22It was fun to be in Dubai playing for the first time this tournament.
00:26It was a long match, so I had a chance to stay on court for quite a while.
00:30That was difficult, but I'm happy to get it done.
00:32I would rather win more straightforward in two sets and shorter,
00:36but sometimes it's okay to test yourself and to be tested by your opponent
00:43in the early rounds. He beat me last time in the first round in the Grand Slam,
00:49so I knew it would be tricky. I knew I had to stay calm and compose
00:54and wait for my chances. I was fortunate at some point to be able to break in the third
01:02and then to keep going forward and win.
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