Rublev swears in interview as Russian wins Madrid Open with Khachanov
Andrey Rublev swore in his winner’s interview after he and compatriot Karen Khachanov picked up the boys’s doubles title in Madrid on Saturday. The high 15 singles gamers gained their first title collectively and the youthful Russian joked about his earlier document taking part in alongside Khachanov, saying his associate “gave him s***” for not successful titles collectively.
Rublev and Khachanov gained their first doubles title as a group collectively on Saturday, defeating doubles veterans Rohan Bopanna and Matt Ebden 6-3 3-6 [10-3]. The Russian duo grew up collectively and educated in Spain as youngsters, making Madrid’s Caja Magica a becoming place for his or her first trophy collectively.
After the match, the singles world No 6 gave an X-rated interview as he joked about his previous document within the doubles with Khachanov, having misplaced two Masters finals prior to now. “You cannot imagine how much s*** he was giving me because I was winning titles with other partners,” Rublev joked after the pair gained the title.
“Denys [Molchanov], there was someone else with the other guys. He was giving me a lot of s*** that, ‘you win with everyone, as soon as he plays once he wins with everyone and with me you never win.'” And Rublev claimed that he saved his largest and greatest doubles title for his long-time buddy and associate.
He continued: “Now we win the biggest one. I keep the biggest one for you.” The pair will now be twelfth within the doubles race to the ATP Finals because of their win, and are each within the high eight of the singles race too.
While Turin is not their objective, each males stated they’d fortunately play the singles and doubles occasions on the ATP Finals in the event that they made it. “I mean we’re going to keep playing but I don’t know how good we’re going to do because normally we lose first rounds,” Rublev joked.
Khachanov added: “We will be but definitely if it has to happen definitely we will be happy to play in Turin like Nick Kyrgios with Thanasi [Kokkinakis], they played last year.” The 26-year-old then impressed the Madrid crowd as he introduced out his language information to present his victory speech in Spanish whereas Rublev additionally did the identical, with each males having Spanish coaches.
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