A year and a half later, Lucas Pouille finds the 3rd round of a Masters 1000. By obtaining his third victory on the main circuit this season this Wednesday, and especially his second in a row at Montecarlo, the Habs are gradually returning to the front of the stage. After a convincing first round against Guido Pella, the Frenchman had more trouble against the Australian qualifier Alexei Popyrin, 83rd in the world, but did not give up. Led by a break in the decisive round, he finally won 7-5, 2-6, 6-3 after 2 hours of play. Next round against spanish Alejandro Davidovich Fokina, previously seeded n ° 8 Matteo Berrettini. At a press conference, Lucas Pouille, who has won for the first time since September 2019, two consecutive matches, however regrets having played on court n ° 9 this Wednesday, where his coach was on the court, just in front of him. Lucas Pouille is explained in the video below: “I had the‘impression of playing Futures on court n ° 9 … while they put a double on center court …! ”
Pouille has won 2 games in a row, a 1st since 2019!
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“I had to fight against myself”
Since October 2019, Lucas Pouille had not won two games in a row. A release for the Northerner who necessarily found the time long. “Winning two games in a row was a long time ago. It was long. Now, it’s focus on tomorrow, to try to erase what was not good today, to keep what was good (…) it’s really important to win this kind of matches, especially in my situation. It gives a lot of confidence. If we start with the defeat, it undermines a bit and if we win we have a smile. I’m really happy to have come out of it with courage, after losing the second where I was very negative and I had to fight against myself.“
Winner of Australian Popyrin (7/5, 2/6, 6/3), @la_Pouille qualified for the eighth final in the #rolexmcmasters ! It had been over a year and a half since he had been this far in an ATP Masters 1000.
— FFT (@FFTennis) April 14, 2021
“I have the Olympics in the back of my mind”
Deprived of the Olympic Games in 2016 when he was 29th in the world and 6th French at the time of the closing of the selections, Lucas Pouille hope to catch up this year and finally discover at Tokyo the biggest sporting event ever created: “The dream of my life, maybe not. But yes it is in a corner of my head necessarily. I had missed Rio in special conditions. I was 5th French and 25th in the world so it was hard not to not go there at that time. Today, it can go until after Roland. You have to be in the 4. Yes, I have it in the back of my head. I don’t think about it on the short but I would like to play my first Olympic Games. I fell a little behind but I did not sink in the standings thanks to the new system. To be in the 40 after Roland is the objective.f “, he confided.
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