"This is just a match I will never forget. I hope the people who watched the match will think the same. At this moment, it's really painful.
"I was just trying to -- you know, I was behind all the match. Every time I was serving to stay in the match. I just try to win the game, just to win the point I was playing. That's it. Again and again, every time the same.
"To be honest, I'm feeling great. Maybe you're surprised, but I'm feeling great. Just want to come back on Court 18 [to finish the doubles] and win this time.
(translated from French): "I felt I was playing the best tennis of my life... I always believed that I was going to make it, that he was going to make a double fault or he was going to serve not quite as well or that I would be able to correctly anticipate his serve. I kept waiting for that moment... but it didn’t come.”
“Until the end of my career, and surely afterward as well, people will still talk about this match. He won, so it’ll probably always be amazing for him. But for me it will always remind me that I lost. In the locker room, when I was feeling down, my team told me that what had happened went beyond just winning and losing.
"My trainer took me to the entrance to Centre Court to see the little poem by Kipling. I hope I’ll some day have the strength to be able to appreciate that."