"Yeah, I felt relatively pretty good physically. My legs, my body felt really good. I felt fit and I'm in great shape. Obviously felt some discomfort with the wrist, but he does serve and hit the ball a lot bigger than probably some of the people that I have practiced with in the last year."
"But there is no hiding. Once you commit to playing like that, you've got to be ready. I'm relatively really happy with how it went. If I had to win that match, I'm honestly not sure if I'd be able to play my second round (smiling)."
"I've got six holes in my hand and one in my arm. Yeah, not one tennis player has ever had this surgery and come back and tried to play again. It's all really an experimental kind of -- the surgeon, like, yeah, if you ever go back and play at this level again, it's on you guys."
"I don't really have any protocol of how it's going to be or how it's going to pull up. So me and my physio, we are taking it as it comes. If we can get through a match, we get through a match. How it pulls up tomorrow, I have no idea. It's throbbing like s**t right now."
"I think I was, like, really excited for the Australian Open, but after today -- obviously I'm super excited. If I'm able to play, I'm able to play. But the reality kind of set in to me. That's a best-of-three match with my wrist."
"If I'm able to -- not only is a Grand Slam mentally, like, really draining, like you're there for two-and-a-half, three weeks, it's like physically a grind. I think I almost need a miracle, and I need, like, the stars to align for my wrist to hold up in a Grand Slam for sure. That's kind of the reality setting in."
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