00:00Nick Keriaz, congratulations, welcome back on grass, people missed you, you're very loved here, how did it feel?
00:09Yeah, it's quite emotional to be honest, I've had a lot of surgeries and just to come back here and
00:15I felt the love from the get-go, so I'm so thrilled to be back and playing some high-level
00:19tennis as well, and Moutet's a great friend of mine and he's one of our characters on tour that we
00:25should embrace, you know, he's always giving us entertainment, he wants to come out here and play, but
00:29you know, I'm just pleased with the way I played today, I'm pleased with the way I'm feeling, my body,
00:33I've been putting in a lot of work, so I'm just really happy to be back, you guys are amazing,
00:36honestly, there's no other place I'd like to come to and put on a performance like that.
00:44You certainly look like you were having a lot of fun out there, maybe tell us a little bit more
00:48about how your body is feeling, are you feeling confident?
00:52Yeah, look, confident is, I don't know if that's a word that I'm feeling just yet, obviously I'll see how
00:57I feel tomorrow, I mean, I had a wrist reconstruction,
00:59I've had four knee surgeries, so, you know, I'm really battling, but at the same time, I've been putting in
01:06a lot of work, I'm feeling really good about myself, and I've got so many fans, honestly,
01:09I was, so many times where I was thinking, you know, why am I playing, you know, what more do
01:13I need to do, and I look at you guys and this is why I'm playing, so I'll hang around
01:17for a little longer.
01:21Fantastic, and finally, a quick word about the grass season, first grass win in a while, what does the grass
01:27season mean to you?
01:28Yeah, it's a hell of a surface, that's for sure, this is where tennis started, it's tradition, you think of
01:33tennis and you think of the rich culture it has, and this is where it all started, you know,
01:37I think about Roger Federer instantly when I think about a surface like this, obviously my good friend Novak has
01:42had a lot of success, but it's always been something that I grew up with in Australia,
01:46we have a lot of grass courts and we always played, so I feel comfortable on it, and Stuttgart's always
01:50been a nice place for me on the calendar, I've always played it,
01:53even when I was battling through injury, I tried, I showed up and I tried to play, so, you know,
01:56this is a, it's a really good event, I'm really happy that I got a win.
01:59Thanks for a show and a lot of quality, good luck for the week.
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