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Nick Kyrgios: “The Big Four are still there. Still playing at an unbelievable level so it’s hard to say there’s a changing of the guard yet. But all the young guys are capable of breakthroughs. To see (Alexander) Zverev go deep an Indian Wells woke me up and motivated me. You almost feed off of that. The guys are watching my run here and they’ll come back stronger.”

David Goffin: “The Big Four made us practice harder and raise our level, when you lose ten times in a row to top ten players it’s tough. But when you finally beat one it’s so good for your mentality and le leads to more surprises.”

Tomas Berdych: “For me the last ten years there’s been no one else – so when it’s not the Big Four in the draw people say: Wow what’s happening? Well we are not machines. Especially when you see how many young guys are moving up and trying to hunt the top guys. It’s a nice fresh change for tennis.”.

Milos Raonic: “It’s really about central internal focus. I prepare for the guys I have to play the next day – focusing on what I need to do then making small adjustments if need be.”

Novak Djokovic: “(Thiem) has very powerful strokes in the back of the court so he either makes some really amazing shots down he line mostly and some great inside out forehands or he makes some mistakes. It’s kind of a gamble playing him. It is exciting because tennis definitely needs the next generation of young players who are playing the way Dominic does and challenging the best players in the world. It’s a normal evolution in life that sooner or later the time will come for all of us and then we need some new faces and players that are able to lead the tennis world in the future.”

Dominic Thiem: “Today I didn’t play bad at all – just not my best. There were many good points and many bad points. (I was) one out of fifteen break points. I mean like half of them he saved were incredible. But for sure there were like five or six break points that I have to make.”

Victoria Azarenka: “I think it’s important to give the winner (Svetlana Kuznetsova) in this match credit because from what I’ve seen Serena doesn’t just lose matches. She always fights.”

Grigor Dimitrov on who he would pay to watch: “I’m not going to hide it – I like to watch Roger Rafa and Novak. It’s cool to watch. I mean I like tennis and I like watching good strong matches. Knowing the players and maybe you played against them.”

Gael Monfils on what it will take to beat Novak Djokovic: “What type? I don’t know. Someone that has a good inspiration and can make him play different. We saw a couple of players try to chase him a little bit for sets and for games. But right now he’s on the top of the game. He’s the best on every shot – every shot he has an answer and every question that we give him. I guess someone with great inspiration. I feel last year you know who beat him was the only guy able to have great inspiration that day.”

Novak Djokovic: “Well, you know, in the end of the day of course you would like to have the majority of the crowd supporting you, being behind you in the important moments, because that kind of support kind of de-stresses and you gives you that necessary strength and motivation to really showcase your full potential, if I may say.”

“Obviously it’s better playing with crowd behind you than crowd behind your opponent’s back. Now, I don’t feel that every match I play against opponent, against the crowd. I don’t feel that I play against the crowd at all. Crowd loves to see entertaining matches, but I get a lot of support. I don’t take that for granted. I am really grateful for that. In the end of the day, whatever is the situation and whatever crowd decides, you know, who to support and which side to go, I got to do my job. I need to try to focus on this moment and executing the game plan.But we have to be honest that it’s better when you have crowd on your side.”

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