Diego Schwartzman, who on Monday qualified in an agonizing way for the second round of Roland Garros against the Spanish Bernabé Zapata, confessed that next year his future could be considered if his game and the results do not respond to the preparation effort.
El Peque, who is currently ranked 95th in the ATP ranking, explained in statements to journalists that he has a "huge" wear and tear on a day-to-day basis for his preparation and that it is "costing him a little more" to get results, something that then "moves to the court."
"To be honest, I'm a little tired. It costs me day to day. I don't have to think about the ranking anymore because a lot was lost and to get back to that there is an abyss," he said.
In a season so far very negative due to poor results and physical problems, he recalled that "before he did things very well off the court and saw the results", but in the last year he has not found them, and with that "frustration" sometimes "it costs to renew those desires", he continued.
Schwartzman recalled that this is the first bad year he has, so "one has to give himself a chance to have a year with a tennis slump", after a series of very regular seasons, especially in 2020, when he finished as number 8 of the ATP and played the Masters Cup.
"If next year I see that I continue in the same way, trying and doing the same as always, and tennis does not return me as it always gave me back, there I will see what I do in my day to day," he warned.
And he added that perhaps the day he does not feel comfortable on the court, "I say this is how far I came."
"I'm going to be 31, I'm not a baby either," he added. So he wants to see if he can continue to have sensations and play. "If not, we'll see."
The Buenos Aires tennis player equaled today with his victory the mark of 22 wins of an Argentine tennis player at Roland Garros that Juan Martín del Potro had, something that seemed "incredible", although he acknowledged that sometimes it "bothers" him that the triumphs are taken for granted and he is not valued enough "when things are going well".
On the duel with Zapata, he acknowledged that he started playing "a bad match" in which his rival "was better", so he lost the first two sets.
However, he described that he began to feel better at the end of the second set, which he lost in the tiebreaker, and at the beginning of the third Zapata "gave the opportunity to fight" for the match and took advantage of it.
From the end of the second set "my tennis was very good", which allowed him to win the next two with some comfort, although the fifth "was hard", since it was very even until he managed to break the service of his rival in the ninth game.
In the end, the Argentine won 1-6, 6-7 (5), 6-2, 6-0 and 6-4 and will play the second round with the Portuguese Nuno Borges (ranked 80 in the ATP ranking), who this past Sunday got rid of the American John Isner.
Source: EFE
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