THE CHAMPIONSHIPS

July 13, 2023

Mate Pavic

Lyudmyla Kichenok

Press Conference

PAVIC-KICHENOK/Vliegen-Xu

6-4, 6-7, 6-3

THE MODERATOR: Great result for you both today. Tell us how it feels to be the mixed doubles champions this year.

MATE PAVIC: Well, it feels great. It was a good, entertaining match tonight. We played some good tennis overall these past 10 days.

Yeah, for both us first time here playing the mixed finals. We're extremely happy. Yeah, went on our side, lifting the title. Yeah, we're happy.

LYUDMYLA KICHENOK: Yeah, it feels amazing be Wimbledon champion in mixed doubles. I really enjoyed playing with Mate. He's a great player (smiling). I also want to thank to our mutual friend Ivan. Because of him we're playing together, yeah.

It was really great time for me past 10 days. I am enjoying.

THE MODERATOR: Questions, please.

Q. It's clearly a winning partnership. Will you take that partnership to the US Open?

MATE PAVIC: We haven't...

LYUDMYLA KICHENOK: That's too far (laughter).

MATE PAVIC: We played actually just one time before this. It was actually in Wimbledon 2017. It was a long time ago.

But, yeah, definitely we'll try to arrange something.

LYUDMYLA KICHENOK: We'll see. Why not?

MATE PAVIC: Obviously we're playing good together. Why not?

Q. Could you let us know why as a team you play so well together. Any kind of specific tactics that you bring to a tennis match?

LYUDMYLA KICHENOK: We both are just working hard on our game every day. We both are trying to play aggressive. On grass it especially works really well. That's the key. It worked for us this tournament.