“If I had lost the second set, I don’t know if I would have continued the match.”said Novak Djokovic during the on-court interview after his victory against Carlos Alcaraz when he had his left leg strapped at the end of the first set.
Asked to respond in his native language to this statement from the Serb, the Spaniard explained that he simply did not believe it given the level of play displayed by Djokovic in the third and fourth sets.
“Everyone saw that Djokovic was having trouble moving. In the third and fourth sets, I didn’t see any of that. Someone who thinks about withdrawing from a match would not have played the way he did afterwards. I think even if he had lost the second set, I would have had to sweat to beat him. I’m not going to go into detail, but I don’t think he would have given up. »
Published on Tuesday January 21, 2025 at 5:16 p.m.
