"Of course, all the hours that he gets on the court, obviously, it matters to play the final. As he said, there is no time to be tired at finals. It’s one of the things that we were talking about before the match."
"I tried to tell him all the time to go for a match, not have the sensation to not play his level. So he tried to push and push and push all the time. I think he tried to do it all the time."
"The players now, they’re going to play very motivated against him, now he’s No. 1. Before he was 2 or 3, even like this, it’s like Real Madrid-Barcelona, there’s a rivalry that gets you to increase your level. It’s what is going to happen to him against his opponents. He has to be ready."
"I have the goal to put him on the high level of tennis. Of course, I think it’s going to be very, very difficult to achieve what they [Nadal, Djokovic, and Roger Federer] have done in tennis."
"We’re talking about 22 Grand Slams. He has only one. It's a long way still to go. But who knows? I think he has all the tennis and potential to be one of the best. All we have to do is try it."
"When he arrived at the academy when he was 15, he was like a spaghetti, very thin. We had to work. Obviously, we saw that he had very fast hands and very fast legs but no muscles at all, not in the back, not in the legs. We had to work a lot. But obviously, we saw something very special in him."
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