Dusan Lajovic is the winner of the Srpska Open tournament. Over the course of only a couple of
\ndays, the Serbian tennis player defeated two Top 10 players, something he can be really proud of.
\nLajovic played wisely every point at the tournament and clinched a well-deserved title.
\n\u201cThe match was really demanding. From start to finish. I don\u2019t know where I found the energy in the
\nsecond and the third set. I played many long matches this week. Somehow, after 5:1, I managed to
\nfinish the match. All matches I played this week were against very good friends, including Andrey,
\nand, unfortunately, one of us had to lose. Sometimes it\u2019s not easy at all to play against a friend. It\u2019s
\nmuch easier to play against some other fellow at the tournament you are not close with\u201d, said Dusan
\nLajovic.
\nLajovic admitted that at one moment he was doubting whether he would be able to finish the match
\nbecause he was \u2018running out of fuel\u2019.
\n“I\u2019m tired but in a good rhythm. I hope I can continue, physically, I mean. I really enjoyed my time here
\nthis week. My tennis was good and I fought really well. I expect the same from every match but I\u2019m
\naware that\u2019s not always possible. I hope, at least, to recover before Madrid, although there isn\u2019t much
\ntime.\u201d
\nAfter he lost the second set, Lajovic said he felt drained and kept thinking how Rublev was getting
\nback into the match.
\n\u201cIf I had broken his serve only once, I don\u2019t think I would have won the match but I did break his serve
\ntwice and I used that to my advantage when I was serving\u201d.
\nIn his answer to the question what was running through his mind when the result was 5:4 in the third
\nset, Lajovic did not hide that he was considering a defeat.<\/p>\n
“I was not playing well so I told myself \u2018come on, play a good forehand shot and then we\u2019ll see\u2019. I
\nrealised that I was not going to win if I was only going for the winners. I had to focus on the fight
\nbecause the fight was required. Honestly, at 5:1, I lost my strength. I felt dizzy and I thought I would
\nfaint. Then I said to myself \u2018hang in there\u201d and the crowds really lifted me up. If it weren\u2019t for them,
\nwho knows how it would end.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Dusan Lajovic is the winner of the Srpska Open tournament. Over the course of only a couple of days, the Serbian tennis player defeated two Top 10 players, something he can be really proud of. Lajovic played wisely every point at the tournament and clinched a well-deserved title. \u201cThe match was really demanding. From start […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6627,"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\/6815"}],"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=6815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/srpskaopen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srpskaopen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/srpskaopen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srpskaopen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srpskaopen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}