Per usual, gracious in defeat. #🐐

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• Personal disappointment and congratulations to Italy

“Congratulations to Italy for qualifying for the final, they deserved it. They played very well, especially Jannik in singles and also in doubles. He barely failed during the whole game, so you can only congratulate on a performance like that. Personally it is a great disappointment because I take responsibility, obviously having three match points and being so close to winning it. It’s really unfortunate. This is a sport. When you lose for your country, the feeling of bitterness is even greater,” Novak Djokovic confessed at a press conference.

• Three match points that he didn’t manage to take advantage of

“At this level, against one of the best players in the world, everything happens very quickly. In the 0-40 I had the rally but I failed from the center of the track and made a couple of great serves. Maybe I had a passing in my hand in the 30-40, but he did well on the net. He was serving extremely well and it was difficult to read him.”

• Sinner’s deadly right

“It has one of the fastest right-hand strokes and gives it a lot of effects and a lot of power. That didn’t surprise me too much. I know the quality of Jannik, but I was thinking that maybe he was going to go down a little in doubles, but that was not the case. He kept the very high level and at the end of the individual game. Also in the third set, I had many opportunities to break the service, but every time I needed it I found the serve.”

• Physical and mental fatigue at the end of the season?

“I don’t want to talk about it because it’s going to sound like an excuse. It’s what it is. You just have to shake their hand and move on. Obviously this is difficult to accept. I was really trying to cheer me up this week. Throughout the season my thoughts were this week with my Davis Cup team. I tried to contribute. I did it in the first round, but today it couldn’t be.”