00:00So no man has defended the title here since 2008, do you think he kind of will do that?
00:11Do you think he's the favorite?
00:12Like, did you see anything today that changed your mind at all?
00:16I mean, it's really tough to say.
00:18There's so many great players in the draw and, you know, you definitely have to probably
00:24give it to him, him or Carlos, you know, to the two favorites.
00:28Obviously, they've played, I think, almost every final together the last few months.
00:33So most likely, you know, the chances are it could be one of them too.
00:37But to be honest, there's a lot of great players.
00:40And I mean, I was able to put pressure on Yannick today.
00:44So, you know, who says that another player can't do the same, you know?
00:48Dennis, on the right hand side, right there.
00:50Hi, Dennis.
00:51Congrats for the way you played today.
00:53You said earlier that you grew up mentally, like, in the last couple of months.
00:58Did something push you to grow up?
01:01Did something help you to do it?
01:04I think I'm just getting older, getting more mature, trying to, you know, to go about things
01:10the right way.
01:11And yeah, just trying to understand also what helps me, what doesn't help me in the moment.
01:18Sometimes I do need to get a little bit more fired up, you know?
01:20And sometimes I just need to not stress about the situations and the moments in the match
01:27and just play point by point.
01:29And yeah, I mean, I'm definitely learning to do that much better.
01:34You know, like I said, when I took that break from my knee injury, it wasn't just, you know,
01:38physical, but it also helped a lot mental.
01:40You know, there's a lot you deal with throughout the years as a tennis player.
01:45And it was good to have that break to kind of reflect on, first of all, what I had gone
01:51through, but also what I still wanted to achieve in the sport and how to get there, you know?
01:56And one of the big things for me was to have more titles and to become, you know, consistent
02:01at the top level.
02:02And I'm very happy, you know, that me and the team around have put in the work to try
02:08to get there as best as possible.
02:10And yeah, you know, I mean, it was a very positive few matches for me.
02:17I didn't have an easy draw going into it and just very happy, obviously pissed and upset
02:23that I lost today, but very happy with the way I lost and with my efforts, for sure.
