PARIS (ANP/RTR) – Defending champion Novak Djokovic certified for the eighth finals of Roland Garros on the evening from Saturday to Sunday. Djokovic, who solely completed his match in opposition to the Italian Lorenzo Musetti at 3:06 am, was nonetheless filled with adrenaline afterwards. The Serbian due to this fact joked to the viewers that he was open to a potential occasion within the early hours of Sunday morning.
“Who can sleep with all that adrenaline?” he puzzled. “If there is a occasion, I will come,” Djokovic joked.
After his match in opposition to Musetti, Djokovic didn’t need to remark an excessive amount of in regards to the late finish time of the match. “I do not need to get into that debate,” he mentioned. “This match has created nice issues to speak about as a result of Lorenzo and myself’s performances stand out at the moment. I do not need to discuss in regards to the schedule.”
“After all I’ve an opinion about it,” he lastly admitted. “I believe some issues might have been dealt with in another way. There’s something good in profitable a match at three within the morning, if it had been the final of the event. However that isn’t the case. I’ve to get better as shortly as potential. Bodily, I actually did my utmost to win this match.”
“While you play rallies of greater than twenty strokes, at two o’clock within the morning… Who performs at two o’clock within the morning? We do not play many matches in our lives at the moment. The circumstances have been very powerful, it was very chilly.”
Djokovic will face Argentinian Francisco Cerundolo within the eighth finals on Monday.
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