00:00Hey Yannick, well played. I was gonna say Kasper was just in here and he said that he described
00:08your performance as perfect as he's ever seen, you know, while playing against it and he said
00:13it's next level shit. So I'm curious how did it feel to play that match and have you surprised
00:19yourself at all with your level given how early it is into your comeback and yeah how low your
00:23expectations were? Yeah, it was an amazing match from my side everything worked very very well
00:31there's not so much to talk about no I think now from the back of the court I felt very comfortable
00:38today I had the tactics prepared and I tried to replicate that you know as in the last time we
00:46played against was in was in Turin so you know I we prepared that that match in a very similar style
00:54things can change though quickly because you know I had you know a couple of points you know to go
01:013-0 but then was 2-1 if I don't if I have a small drop there it's and he breaks me there it's a game
01:07changer you know so but I'm happy that I that I handled that in a in a very calm way again it was
01:15it was it was a great performance very happy about that but things can change quickly you know
01:20every day is is different tomorrow is a different opponent we play again in the night but but still
01:27it's a different match-up so you know I always try to prepare myself in the best possible way
01:33can you just tell us the emotions of meeting the Pope yesterday and how they how that came about was
01:46it the Italian Federation that that asked for the audience or was it the Pope or how did it work it
01:52was a bit you know with the Federation and everything so it's amazing honestly I I never experienced something
02:00something something like this I was very honored I was I didn't know exactly really what to say no
02:07it was a very emotional thing also with my with my parents there and it was it was very nice it was
02:14something I will I will never forget and that's for sure and yeah it's something else really it's it's
02:25very difficult to to say how it was because I never experienced something like this I met important
02:31people in my in my young life and that this was something else so I was very honored and I appreciate it
02:42just just on that this is obviously been a pretty crazy 10 days for you and you know coming back and
02:54the crowd support the Pope seeing your face pretty much everywhere in the city just curious how do you
03:00stay calm and you know the way you are now while going through all of this I'm just happy to be here I
03:09mean there are no no many secrets there is we we prepared ourselves in the best possible way to be
03:15in shape here we had a lot of doubts of how my performance is going to be because in practice sessions I had
03:23some very many ups and downs and and you don't have the feedback of of the real match and so I just came
03:31here I'm very present person you know if things goes well I I'm positive if things don't go well I I work
03:39on that like after the match against Casper Jasper I you know stayed on court because I felt like
03:45something didn't work as as I wish to so and there are no secrets they're just you know hard work and
03:52believing in myself and you know that's really it's you know there is nothing else and obviously the
04:00support means so much to me you know and I feel very comfortable here and trying to give some some nice
04:07moments back the Italian tennis is in a great moment with Lorenzo and the other side of of the semis
04:13Jasmine making making final here so it's there's a lot of a lot of Italy here in the Italian Open so
04:20it's it's nice to be part of this
