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MUTUA MADRID OPENMay 6, 2013Nicolas AlmagroMADRID, SPAIN N. ALMAGRO/T. Kamke (Through translation.) THE MODERATOR: Questions, please. Q. Hi, Nico. Good afternoon. You've just went in and out. What you've got now, it's a pretty difficult draw. Can you analyze it? NICOLAS ALMAGRO: Well, I haven't looked further than the match of today. I don't know who's coming or not coming. This is a matter of going day after day, every day going over the obstacles. Today I've been lucky enough to go over the first one; we will see what happens the next day. Q. Hi, Nico. I would like to know how you feel the ball here in Madrid? How did you find yourself playing in this court? NICOLAS ALMAGRO: Playing here in Madrid is always lovely. Madrid always makes you have more motivation and you always want to do really well. Maybe that gives you a little bit more pressure. But it's clear that the courts are in really good condition. Now I have the luck to be able to train during the year in Vienna, which has an altitude similar to here in Madrid. Well, the days that I have been training here in Madrid I find myself quite comfortable. I hope that as soon as the days keep on going I keep playing better and better. Q. After the final of Godo, how do you face this tournament? NICOLAS ALMAGRO: Well, after such a long tour over in the United States and South America where I wasn't playing really good tennis, I started clay in Houston and things went quite well. After the long journey to play in Monte‑Carlo, I knew it was going to be difficult to have a good result over there. But I knew if I kept on working and doing things I was doing until then, I could have the results soon. I was lucky enough to have a good result in Barcelona, a tournament that has always been a big illusion for me. I'm quite happy for how things are going in the tournaments to which I'm attending, tournaments I'm participating in. Q. Hi, Nico. I wanted to ask if you feel the difference between the speed of the ball here from that in Godo. Is there a lot of difference? NICOLAS ALMAGRO: Yeah, you can feel it. It's quite a bit of difference to play at sea level than at altitude. I'm saying the same: I've been lucky enough to be training for a week in a place where there is similar altitude to here, which is the Juan Carlos Ferrero Academy in Vienna. But it's clear that, yeah, it's a big change. Maybe not that important, but, yeah, it makes the ball go much faster than in Barcelona. FastScripts Transcript by ASAP Sports |
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