The Czechs fell in love with it, now it shines. I tried something, it didn’t work, admitted the star Russian

For a month and a half, the native of Moscow did not win anything. His miserable period was started by his incident in Dubai, when in the semi-finals during the deciding set he rudely assaulted the linesman and was disqualified.

And fate threw all three of the current best Czech tennis players into his path. He was escorted from Doha by 18-year-old talent Jakub Menšík, from Indian Wells Jiří Lehečka, from Miami Tomáš Macháč. What about the fact that it was a top ten star, the Czechs didn’t lose a hundred with her.

“What can I say, it was a really miserable period of my career, probably every tennis player goes through it. But I know very well what caused it and I’m trying to change it,” Rubljov admitted at the beginning of the event in Madrid.

The twenty-six-year-old tennis player had a great turn of the year. In the fall, he played the final in Shanghai, the semi-final of the Masters in Paris and also reached the Tournament of Champions. He was also successful in the first weeks of the new season and settled in the top five of the ranking.

“But I wanted more. I wanted to push myself further, I started doing a lot of new things off the court. Maybe it was too radical and it didn’t work. So I went back to the regime I had when I was playing at my best ,” the Russian explained.

And apparently it fell into a rut. After six weeks of suffering, when he lost four matches, he got going on the Madrid clay and even knocked out local champion Carlos Alcaraz in the quarterfinals.

“I feel great since the first training sessions here. After six weeks of misery, change has come. But it’s better not to think about it, because my current season only proves that everything can be different from week to week,” Rublyov tries to be humble.

On Sunday, in Madrid, which is marked by a number of injured stars that scratch the matches, he will play the final with the Canadian Félix Auger-Aliassim, that is, with the 35th player in the world.

“I don’t look at the ranking at all. It’s not relevant at all. Félix was already in the top ten, he already beat me once. I definitely don’t see myself as a clear favorite,” Rublyov remains down to earth.