DAVIS CUP FINALS

November 20, 2025

Pablo Carreno Busta

Team Spain

Press Conference

J. MENSIK/P. Carreno Busta

7-5, 6-4

Team Czechia - 1

Team Spain - 0

THE MODERATOR: We'll start with questions for Pablo.

Q. Could you talk us through the match from your perspective, in particular the passage in the first set where you had the break, then he broke back. What was the key there?

PABLO CARRENO BUSTA: Yeah, is true that the match was close, but wasn't enough, no? Probably the key was in the first set when I make the break. It's very important in these kind of surfaces that the opponent don't make the contra-break. Sometimes happens, no?

Also if you have my serve, probably with his serve will be as easier. But yeah, probably that was the moment of the match, that I need to give something extra, extra.

After that he served really, really good. He didn't give me any opportunities to make another break. Probably at the end of the match in the 4-All, 15-30, I tried, but it wasn't enough.

Well, when you have to play every points from the baseline in this surface, is really difficult in the important moments continue pushing, like in the first games of the set.

Probably was the match like this.

Q. I was going to ask you about Jakub's serve. What is the tougher part of it, the placement or the speed that he's serving at? How difficult was it to read?

PABLO CARRENO BUSTA: Well, you try to know at the beginning of the match or before the match where he feels more comfortable serving. Is true that normally in the advantage, he likes to serve wide. Probably in deuce, he serves better also to the T. Then he can play both sides.

His speed is always more than 200 kilometers per hour. Is not easy to return. Sometimes you can return, but he has an easy ball.

Well, I just try to push ball in game as much as I can. But you need to push. If not, he has an easy ball.