The blue tennis player says he needs “a couple of days to reflect without feeling anyone”. Alcaraz congratulates him: “Immense, always had great respect for him”
The perfect ending does not exist, but Fabio Fognini is almost convinced that this defeat after playing a sensational game against Carlos Alcaraz, one in which the 38 -year -old brought the number 2 of the world to the fifth set and twice in charge on the Wimbledon plant, goes very close to us. “I take a couple of days to think, to understand what I did. On my own, without listening to anyone. And then I will decide,” he says about his future. He was already sure that this would be his latest Wimbledon, his last game in Slam on the grass where he never went beyond the third round in his career. It could also be transformed into the last of his career.
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“It is hard, but this is probably the best way to say goodbye to Wimbledon, perhaps also to tennis -he says, with the eyes that become increasingly lucid -. I still have a bitter taste in the mouth, because I had my opportunities also in this game. I seemed in shape, it is not true? If we look at the match, I lost the first set without deserving it, then I was under a break and I won the second. Break and then I won the fourth well. Fognini says he cried in the locker room, that he has also made a good chat with Alcaraz, who will then say that Fabio “pushed him to the limit, because there were times when I didn’t know what to do on the pitch”. He tells of the phone call of his son Federico when the draw coupled him with Carlitos, of that “I can come to see you dad, so much you lose” to which he did not know how to say no. And of his Wimbledon without expectations, because “at the beginning of the year I was playing very badly after the injury and I did not win too many games”. The eyes become increasingly lucid, Federico is there that looks at him. “Now let’s go to make a nice sushi dinner, then in a few days, perhaps in front of a beer or a nice glass of wine, I will make a decision. He remains the pride of having showed at 38 years of which he still is capable of, that” good dad “and tears with his son Federico, the applause of the Wimbledon central, the Temple of Tennis, and of that” ooh “. Remember that this was his last time here.
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To the congratulations for Fabio there are also those of Alcaraz: “I knew it would have been difficult against Fabio – he says -: it doesn’t matter that this is his last year, his last tournament, Fabio has an immense talent and showed that he can still play his best tennis. We talked to us in the locker room, I told him how much I have respect for him, for what he did in his career and in this game. to have shared the field with him once again. So much as to have said in the field that he thinks that Fognini could play 3-4 years at this level. Fabio seems to have other ideas.