by “The Grand Slams always made me smile and today could be another day”, were the first words of diego schwartzmannminutes away from achieving a very good victory in his debut in Wimbledon against the serb Miomir Kecmanovic for 6-0 6-3 6-4.
schwartzman He started out in a sweeping way and continued like this until the third set was 4-0, in which some dark clouds appeared that allowed his rival to equalize the score in four. that was where Diego He once again showed his confidence and the game that he has been recovering, overcoming a 15-40 with his serve, to close the game with authority and unleashing a crazy celebration that he had been holding back.
“It was a long day,” he commented. “The time was approaching when the light began to fade, I was 4-0 in the third and that set was a bit special because of my level, because of what the game had been, because of the time of day, and the truth that He suffered at the end in a match that was not for that. It was unexpected, the wind had also dropped a lot, he loosened his hand a bit, but the truth is that I was able to find some winners and the truth is that I ended up happy“.
Regarding the risk of it not concluding due to lack of daylight, he recognized that “one always thinks that if the match is extended it could happen for the next day, that is why I brought to find positive things, I went a little off axisit was something that could have been avoided, although it turned out that way but i was able to close it”.
Finally, the talk turned to the subject of the surface, the grass, normally elusive to Argentine players. About that, the little He reflected that a lot had changed lately, and he expanded by saying that “the other day we talked with Juan (Chela) about his time to this one and we talked about how before they avoided grass a little more, they played fewer weeks. Now seeing Fran’s title and that it had been many years since an Argentine player had won on this surface. I think that today it changed a lot, it is more playable. Beyond some issues of mobility, pique and others that when played are very little complicated. The first big obstacle we have is that after a tour of almost two months for us as Latinos being away from home, the fact of returning for a few days at the end of Roland Garros revitalizes us.It gives a lot of energy for the second part of the year.”
However, I mark that”there are the priorities of each one and their team and how they prepare, and to come on time or not. The vast majority this time took the time and also what Fran did, what Guido did a while ago (quarterfinals here at Wimbledon), what I did on some occasions, I fed others to say that it can be played on grass and hopefully it will be useful for the coming years, although this is an individual sport and each one is different and they organize and prepare as best as possible for the tournament they want to play”, he concluded.
Daniel Álvarez, from London.
