US OPEN

August 29, 2022

Yoshihito Nishioka

Press Conference

A. DAVIDOVICH FOKINA/Y. Nishioka

6-3, 7-5, 6-3

THE MODERATOR: Tough day today. Your thoughts on the match.

YOSHIHITO NISHIOKA: Yeah, I mean, he played very well. And we are first meeting, so beginning I a little bit try to figure out like how he's gonna play. Couple things I a little bit surprise he can play. But better things before the match had started, and my team was told.

Couple things a little bit different way he played against me before he playing last couple matches. So then maybe he try to figure out before the match start how to play against me.

Then today my services doesn't work. But most of the groundstroke he's much better than me. So, you know, always when I play against opponent always I trying to play his weakness and then try to make going to be little bit like crazy between the match, then like starting the opponents going to be thinking like so many different ways or going to be like little bit easy mistake or something like that.

He just playing very solid, and then I couldn't figure out until the finish how I can beat from the groundstroke, which is a very tough opponent for me, I think.

Yeah, I think everything didn't work to Fokina, and I think he play very solid.