“It was a more difficult game than the others. Maybe I was a little more tense, more tired. I was a little more apprehensive, "said the 35-year-old from Nice at a press conference after the match. Simon can have regrets, especially concerning the first round where he had the opportunity to win over his service, when he led 5-3. But he cracked on two direct faults and the Canadian subsequently chained four games in a row to win the first set.
"I had the means to do better than that."
Gilles Simon"I was ahead in the first set" but "I started to be too passive. I left her too much room at that time. He made three fine points and from that moment the match turns, "analyzed the Frenchman. In the second run, Simon held his service until the tie-break. But in the deciding game, he was dominated by the power of the Canadian and gave up the match on a double fault. "I had the means to do better than that," regrets the double winner in Marseille. “His game is not yet completely finished. But at 19, he is lucky to have a bison physique. Now I'm going to rest as I have done a lot and go to Indian Wells ”. Thanks to his solid performance, Félix Auger-Aliassime, 19, will play in Marseille the fifth final of his career, his second in eight days, who had been beaten by Frenchman Gaël Monfils in Rotterdam on February 17. Sunday Auger-Aliassime will face the defending champion, Stefanos Tsitsipas, another player of the rising young generation of tennis. The 21-year-old Greek, 6th player in the ATP ranking, dominated earlier this afternoon the surprising 22-year-old Kazakh, Alexander Bublik (55th), 7-5, 6-3.
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