Fognini: 'If I had mental strength, I'd have been in top 10 for ten years'
What Fabio Fognini's career would have been if he was 100 per cent tough mentally all the time? He would definitely have got more success, as he recognized in an interview following his win over Rafael Nadal in Monte Carlo. "I would like to be like this every week, but I know that it's impossible (smiling). If if I had the right mindset, I would have been a top ten player for ten years. But, you know, I'm okay. Yesterday was the worst day because was really humid. I played really late. My elbow was bad all week. Today was windy, not cold like yesterday. Nothing to say. That's the most important thing, recover well and then tomorrow, when I wake up, I start thinking about the match", said the 31-year-old.
Fognini also recognized that facing Dusan Lajovic on Sunday will not be easy: "All the time that we played, Rafa, and I beat him, it was not a lot of time, it's really tough to play next game, because beating him, it's, especially mentally, it's so tough. But, you know, it's 6:30. I think I would like to recover really well, eating well, play with Federico a little bit, and then go and sleep."
There is no time to rest for Fognini who will fly to Barcelona to compete in the ATP 500 event where he beat just Nadal in 2015.
from Tennis World USA http://bit.ly/2INKSUr
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