After his defeat against Zizou Bergs on Tuesday evening, synonymous with elimination for the Blues in the quarter-finals of the Davis Cup, Arthur Rinderknech had difficulty hiding his disappointment.
The Blues will not go any further. Indeed, while she participated for the first time in the final phase of this new Davis Cup formula, the France team was eliminated Tuesday evening in the quarter-finals by Belgium (0-2). Because, after the defeat of Corentin Moutet against Raphaël Collignon, it was then Arthur Rinderknech who was beaten by Zizou Bergs in Bologna (Italy).
Faced with a team that seemed within their reach, the Tricolores disappointed and therefore left through the back door. “There is the fact of not having managed to match his intensity, who is a player who puts a lot of effort into it, who plays a little my way.
He was more successful than me. That’s why he wins this (Tuesday) evening », notably recognized the one who reached the final of the Shanghai Masters 1000 when discussing the reasons for his defeat.
Rinderknech disappointed for his teammates
“Did I fail to do it because technically or mentally I wasn’t in the right place to do it? Or was it because physically I was a little tired? Now, when you play for the team, for the country, you don’t care about the state you’re in.
If you have a broken wrist or a broken racket, you give everything you have and you look deep within yourself to find solutions “, Rinderknech later said.
“Already, the defeats all year round are not easy. Even more so when you play for a team, for friends, for a staff, for a captain who are exemplary, who push us. (…) I have a thought for Ben (Bonzi), Pierre Hugues (Herbert) and Gio (Mpetshi Perricard) who did not play this evening. And it hurts me that I didn’t give them the chance to play », Also explained the 29th in the world, in comments collected by L’Equipe.
