I knew that it’s going to be a big challenge and that I have to stay tough. I knew that against Stefanos, it’s going to be different match than what I had throughout the entire tournament. The fourth round, quarter-final, semi-finals, just really comfortable on the court, hitting the ball great. I played some of my best tennis honestly in Australian Open. From fourth round onwards, I feel the leg was not bothering me as much. The good thing about the Grand Slam here is that you have a day between the matches, so it allowed me to have more time than normally on some other tournaments to recover, to try to do all the treatments in order to get myself in somewhat of a good state and condition to play and eventually win. Then it was just a matter of survival of every single match, trying to take it to the next round. If I turn back the time two-and-a-half weeks ago, I wasn’t really liking my chance in this tournament with the way I felt with my leg. It required an enormous mental energy really to stay present, to stay focused, to take things day by day, and really see how far I can go.
Of course, when I went into my box, I just think emotionally collapsed there and teared up with especially my mother and my brother, when I gave them a hug, because up to that moment I was not allowing myself to, I guess, be distracted with things off the court or whatever was happening in dealing with an injury, things happening off the court, as well, that could easily have been a big disturbance to my focus, to my game. A: Yeah, just a huge pride and satisfaction that I feel at the moment. Q: You said on the court the last four to five weeks what it’s been like for you. Novak Djokovic spoke to the media after his straight-sets final win.
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