AUSTRALIAN OPEN

January 24, 2022

Marin Cilic

Press Conference

F. AUGER-ALIASSIME/M. Cilic

2-6, 7-6, 6-2, 7-6

THE MODERATOR: Tough match out there, how are you feeling after that?

MARIN CILIC: It's all right. Yeah, tough match, long four sets. And, you know, played amazing first set and then second set I had I believe two or three games Love-30, some small chances there, not sure if I had a break point or not in the second set.

But Felix stayed in there and, I mean, I didn't do anything wrong in those situations, he just served tremendously well in those critical points and looking overall his serving performance was fantastic.

Today, one of the, you know, I played him three times and today was definitely the best serving performance from him. Obviously there second set losing 9-7 in the tiebreaker, you know, if that, you know, what could have been.

But I think just looking overall in these last two matches against Andrey and against Felix my level was really good, I'm very pleased with that and mentality on the court has been really positive, really strong.

You know, today was Felix was a touch better than I was and especially in those critical moments and definitely big congratulations to him for a great match.