NITTO ATP FINALS

November 15, 2021

Stefanos Tsitsipas

Pala Alpitour, Torino

Press Conference

A. RUBLEV/S. Tsitsipas

6-4, 6-4

THE MODERATOR: Questions in English.

Q. What do you make of your performance overall out there?

STEFANOS TSITSIPAS: Could have been better. I thought Andrey played really well. He was serving at his best that I have ever seen him serve. I think in the first set he had, I don't know, something like 22 consecutive first serves. Maybe the stats are different, but that's the feeling I have. It was pretty good on that side.

Q. I know you said that when you were practicing in the buildup you still felt a little bit of pain in your elbow. I'm wondering, how were you feeling? Matches are always different, so how did it feel on the court?

STEFANOS TSITSIPAS: I prefer not to comment on that. Thank you.

Q. How do you look ahead to your next one? How do you reset?

STEFANOS TSITSIPAS: Well, I'm excited. I mean, I still, you know, want to play good tennis, and despite the loss today I'm given more chances. I want to step it up and show better tennis next time.

Q. You have had success obviously at this event before. How important is it now for you to use that experience that you have had going into the rest of the competition?

STEFANOS TSITSIPAS: Well, I know how the format works. I know how everything runs. You know, I'm pretty experienced here, I assume, having played three times so far.

The feeling of playing here never gets old. I'm always the same kind of excited as I was at the very first time. It's a format that most of the players are not familiar with, because we don't get to play very often with round-robin rules, and, you know, sets can be kind of important, how many sets you win and how many you lose.

I like it, because it gives me chances and I can improve and get better match by match.