Heavy is the head that wears the crown, so they say, particularly when your great rival is missing from the draw due to injury.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But the 24-year-old is taking nothing about his Parisian fortnight for granted,\u00a0nor is he expecting a coronation without having earned it.<\/p>\n
“Pressure is always going to be there,” he later told the press.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“It’s part of us as a tennis player. I do believe everyone has pressure in their work. It’s normal. So I try to take it in a very natural way. I know what kind of player I am.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“Then if you don’t feel the pressure, it means you don’t care. I do care a lot [about] what I’m trying to achieve on a tennis court, and at the same time, I know it’s not that the world is going down if I lose. In any case, I try to do my best. I’m a competitor. I try to put myself in the best possible position, and that’s it.”<\/p>\n
And in two weeks’ time, the Italian hopes that the “best possible position” will see him standing on Chatrier holding the\u00a0Coupe des Mousquetaires on the final Sunday of Roland-Garros.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Heavy is the head that wears the crown, so they say, particularly when your great rival is missing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":696944,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-696943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=696943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/696944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}