Despite the defeat, Damir Dzumhur can be satisfied with the
\nmatch he played against Monte-Carlo Masters 2023 winner Andrey
\nRublev. The local player played well against the tournament\u2019s
\nsecond seed, especially in the first set when he demonstrated
\nthat he was slowly getting into shape.
\n"I think that we both played a good match. I felt mentally
\nstrong in the first set and it would have been better if I
\nmanaged to win the match. But that\u2019s tennis, and you have to
\ntake the advantage of every opportunity when you play the big
\nboys. I proved I could resist the best players in the game in
\ntoday\u2019s match, Rublev is most certainly one of them, and I\u2019m
\nglad. He plays the best tennis on clay at the moment, and he
\ndemonstrated that in Monte Carlo. I had a feeling I could
\n\u201cbreak\u201d him on several occasions during the match and that I
\ncould turn everything around. However, I needed a bit more
\nluck at times. I\u2019m satisfied, not with the result but with the
\ntennis I played. I said before the match that I wasn\u2019t
\nthrowing the towel and that\u2019s why I think that I put up a good
\nfight against Rublev. I was really close to turning the match
\naround\u201d, Damir Dzumhur explained.
\nThe local tennis player praised Rublev and talked about his
\nbest qualities.
\n"Forehand is his best shot. I tried to fight his forehands,
\nespecially when I served, but he had a great advantage when
\nthings were going his way\u201d.
\nMatches like this one against Rublev build confidence and
\nthat\u2019s what the local player lacked in the past.
\n"I\u2019m satisfied with my overall performance at the tournament.
\nI\u2019m really satisfied. This can also serve as an additional
\nencouragement to play even better and gear up for the future
\ntournaments. Definitely, this tournament helped me in terms of
\nmy mental toughness. I proved to myself that I can be on an
\nequal footing with the best and better ranked players in the
\nworld. I set the foundation for the next tournaments. I can go
\nfar if I continue like this\u201d.
\nDzumhur still doesn\u2019t know which tournament he\u2019ll play next;
\nwhether some Masters, maybe Rome or Madrid, namely whether he
\nwill have to play Challenger tournaments.
\n"After all this, I hope to play qualifying rounds at Masters
\ntournaments. My ATP Ranking is such that I still don\u2019t know<\/p>\n
whether I can play big tournaments, namely qualifying rounds,
\nor I\u2019ll have to play Challenger tournaments. I\u2019ve set a good
\nfoundation for the continuation of the season. These are the
\nkind of matches that build players\u201d, Dzumhur added.
\nAt the same time, Dzumhur has added that he will try to play
\nbigger tournaments as well, such as Vienna, because he\u2019s
\nalways felt good there with many people from this region
\nliving there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Despite the defeat, Damir Dzumhur can be satisfied with the match he played against Monte-Carlo Masters 2023 winner Andrey Rublev. The local player played well against the tournament\u2019s second seed, especially in the first set when he demonstrated that he was slowly getting into shape. "I think that we both played a good match. I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":5906,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/srpskaopen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6113"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/srpskaopen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/srpskaopen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srpskaopen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srpskaopen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/srpskaopen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srpskaopen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/srpskaopen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srpskaopen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srpskaopen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}