AUSTRALIAN OPEN

January 19, 2022

Pablo Carreno Busta

Press Conference

P. CARRENO BUSTA/T. Griekspoor

6-3, 6-7, 7-6, 3-6, 6-4

THE MODERATOR: Congratulations. A very tight tussle. Can you talk us through your win today.

PABLO CARRENO BUSTA: Yeah. Yeah, it was important victory, of course, but very, very, very tough match. He was playing really good, no? He won a lot of matches in the last months. Also the end of last year he won every matches. Normally when a player, doesn't matter if he's in a futures, in a challengers, wins in a row these matches, is why he's playing better than this level.

He's ready to play on the ATP tour, for sure. He's ready to play these kind of matches against me, against these type of players.

So probably I didn't make my best match today, but is true that the conditions was very tough also. The weather with a lot of windy, also at the beginning of the match with the sun was very difficult to serve.

But I try to fight all the time, fighting mentally, because in some moments of the match, I thought that I was better than him. Probably he couldn't play at his 100% all the time, and I didn't take advantage of it. I have a lot of chances to be up in the score, but that's tennis, no? You need to be there all the time. Finally I broke in the last game, and I could win the match. That's important thing.