"The unused balls break decided the match"

At the end of the defeat against Tsitsipas and subsequent elimination from the Finals, Roger Federer he spoke like this at a press conference. Here are his words: "Decisive break balls? Yes, it's part of the game. I had my chances and I don't know why it went like this.

I immediately broke two smashes in a game and it hadn't happened for a long time. I haven't done enough today. I don't think it is something that can be improved with training and then even today I was not well on the field with my feet.

I accepted this thing anyway and went ahead, things were going well. I had good moments, but above all in the less good moments nothing went well. At this level this must not happen.

At first things, except for the two smash, seemed to go well, both with the service and with the obverse and the obverse. I was playing well but every time I could go ahead I didn't take advantage of the opportunity and this is frustrating in the long run.

He played very well, on the first serve he played very well while on some occasions I could make better use of the opportunities available on his second service. He has exploited these opportunities better than I have deserved.

The season is over. Now it's all over and you can't improve. Today I tried everything, at a certain point I tried to go to the net more often, I tried to play aggressive but against his game it was not easy.

Today Tsitsipas was incredible athletically. He was better at all those little details "