Chronicle Tsitsipas puts an end to Davidovich's journey, combative until the last ball in Monte Carlo
Hours after losing the final of the Monte Carlo Masters 1000 against Stefanos Tsitsipas, after completing the best week of his tennis life, Alejandro Davidovich (Málaga, 1999) attends EL MUNDO in a telephone conversation from the Principality.
What have you done since the end of the final? Nothing, eat.
We're all processing the week a bit. Is it easy to do? Damn, we've done something nice. He hasn't given up at any time. Well, he's been better at everything.
He was also fresher physically.
I have noticed the weight of all the previous games, but it is far from an excuse.
It took me a while to get to his balls, because he plays aggressive and quite fast.
I'm happy with the game I played, although I would have loved to have played a third.He hasn't been that far.
At no time has he been intimidated. The truth is that I have handled it well.
Even when I beat Nole, I did well the next day with Goffin, which was not an easy match.
He wanted to put me to see where I could get.
I have continued to enjoy every point.
What has changed in the last year? Mentally I am much better, calmer and more focused on everything I am doing.
And that has made the difference from how I was at the beginning of the year to how I am now. Have you done any specific work? I've been with my psychologist Antonio [de Dios] for 10 or 11 years, since I started with Jorge [Aguirre, his coach] and it is quite a daily task, you have to take it as a routine. Perhaps before it was a young volcano that had to be contained in some way. Yes, but as Jorge says, that volcano shot up a lot and had many holes.
We are channeling all that. But he maintains his essence and is capable of serving low on a ball as delicate as Saturday in the semifinals, against Dimitrov, break point to go 0-3 down in the third. Honestly, watching this week I am more me than before.
I have been Alexander,
from the deepest.
More "focus". What can I expect from you from now on? I haven't reached my ceiling yet.
I've had a very good week, but now we have to calm down, keep our feet on the ground and keep improving, because there's still a lot to improve. He's been through difficult times, because things didn't go as fast as maybe expected after winning the Wimbledon junior title, in 2017. From that experience I also learned to handle the situation, for example after beating Djokovic or in this final. How did you deal with seeing that the successes did not come? Yes, I put a lot of pressure on myself when I won Wimbledon and that was not a good thing.
I couldn't get out what I had inside.
It took me a few months to assimilate it.
I was a kid and seeing that you have done something great and you have more eyes on you is difficult to bear.
But you learn from that.
Outside of tennis, tell me about your foundation (Adoptas.org) to adopt animals. Two weeks ago they told us that we already had the foundation and people can donate to the shelters and to the website (www.adoptas.org).
I have loved animals since I was little.
After the quarantine of the pandemic I saw that there was a lot of abandonment in Spain.
Many people took the animals to be happy for two months and then left them.
We are the country with the most dropouts in Europe. What are you looking for in working with Martín Fiz? Above all, we work in the preseason, when there is more time to do more depth.
He already accompanied us in Rotterdam.
Seeing him on the bench and thinking about his mentality when he was running marathons helps a lot.
A game is long and many thoughts come to your mind.
It's good to know what's going on in your head and keep running and winning.
d Are you prepared for your rivals to see you differently now? I make my way.
After this week I have been able to do many things.
I'm going to continue training because I want to be a Masters 1000 champion, not a runner-up.
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