Daniil is somebody that plays a way that we have never seen before. So whatever they have, they can leave it for themselves. I have a very good relationship with Daniil since we're kids, and I'm having a good relationship with Stefanos now since the Laver Cup. But Stefanos and Daniil have a weird relationship a little bit. Do you find anything like that in the match?ĪLEXANDER ZVEREV: That he bored me? No. There have been other players that that's been said about, like Brad Gilbert and stuff. Stefanos said yesterday he thinks one of the reasons that Daniil, at least for him, is such a tough person to play is because he bores him playing against him. I will take that into the indoors now where I had good success last year, and hopefully I will have even better success this year. Making it into the finals of a Masters 1000 is always very difficult and you have to be playing very good tennis to do that. Beaten Roger, beaten other great players. I think we're past that a little bit (smiling).īut, yeah, I mean, as I said before, it was a very positive week. Can you expand a bit on the positives that you have taken away from the past week? What's your biggest lesson learned?ĪLEXANDER ZVEREV: Look, I think we're through the stage where we learn lessons in my career. But obviously I have to be on this path for a longer period of time, I think.īut making finals of a Masters is huge for me right now, and I'm very happy about that. I feel like I'm on a very good path again. You know, to beat someone like him or to beat someone like Novak, you have to be playing good for a longer period of time and not just for one week, because a big difference was at 4-All when it gets tight, he does a few first serves and he's through the game. But I talked to my dad about it and obviously my coaching staff and everybody, and to beat these kind of players, you have to have a lot of confidence. What was so tough about playing him today as compared to the previous four times?ĪLEXANDER ZVEREV: Look, he's a different player now. So just excited, and this thing was a hotrod, just had to get it up front.Octo| by FastScripts Transcript by ASAP Sports He’s worked so hard for so long to get good opportunities, and it was awesome to see him take advantage of that.įor us, we’ve given away a few here over the years, and it feels nice to get one to come around our way for once. It was such a big day for our family to see Ryan do that on Saturday. MARTIN TRUEX JR: Yeah, it’s just special. Your whole family has been here all weekend long. Your brother Ryan won on Saturday, you win today. Just thanks to everybody at JGR, as well. Tough day today with a few pit stops early and then obviously the guys got it going at the end, so really psyched and happy for everybody. I kept saying that we’ve got to just keep doing what we’re doing and not overthink it. We’ve dominated races, and it just would never all come together. Thanks to everybody that stuck with us, all our fans, Bass Pro Shops, Auto Owners, Reser’s, Toyota, TRD, all my personal sponsors. I’m out of breath, I’m breathing so much Goodyear rubber. But just a great call by James to take two and then was able to get a pretty good restart and get Blaney there. Thought today, man, late caution, what’s going to happen here. It felt like we’ve been close a bunch of times, and we gave some away, that’s for sure. MARTIN TRUEX JR: Man, it feels incredible. For the fourth time at Dover, and now for the first time in 54 races, you are a winner again.
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