Arthur Fils has divulged that his run to the Barcelona Open title was motivated by \u201cawful\u201d comments made about him by a journalist.<\/p>\n
The French star secured his fourth ATP Tour title \u2014 and first since October 2024 \u2014 at the Barcelona Open earlier this month. It was Fils\u2019 third title at ATP 500 level.<\/p>\n
Fils<\/a> won five matches to claim the trophy in Barcelona, and he has extended his winning streak to eight matches with his progress at the Madrid Open.<\/p>\n The 21-year-old saw off Ignacio Buse, Emilio Nava and Tomas Martin Etcheverry en route to the quarter-finals at the Masters 1000 event in the Spanish capital.<\/p>\n In a press conference in Madrid, Fils spoke about proving a journalist wrong with his Barcelona Open title.<\/p>\n \u201cIn Barcelona, I saw a journalist speak very badly about me. Really very badly,\u201d Fils was quoted as saying by We Love Tennis (translated from French).<\/p>\n \u201cSo I was very happy to win the title, to prove him completely wrong.<\/p>\n Jannik Sinner calls out Madrid Open organisers as he asks for change after extending win streak<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n \u2018I\u2019m not sure Carlos Alcaraz will be ready for Wimbledon\u2019, says Spanish tennis legend and expert<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Want more from Tennis365? Add us as\u00a0<\/span>a preferred source on Google to your favourites list<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>for tennis coverage you can trust.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cI try not to react to these things, I try not to see them, but when they reach me, I have to read them and think about them.\u201d<\/p>\n The world No 25 went on to declare that he did not remember exactly what the journalist said.<\/p>\n \u201cI was very surprised by his comments and I didn\u2019t appreciate the way he expressed himself,\u201d he added. \u201cBut I think winning the title was the best response.<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t remember exactly what he said, but it was awful.\u201d<\/p>\n Following his fourth round win over Etcheverry in Madrid, Fils spoke about his impressive streak.<\/p>\n \u201cIt feels good, it\u2019s a good habit. You get to the court, you play, you win, you go back to the hotel, you do your treatment, you come back the next day and you win again,\u201d said Fils.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s a really good thing, it\u2019s not common, so when it happens I just enjoy it. For now I\u2019m just trying to win one more, then we\u2019ll see about those players who win 20 in a row or 17 in a row, for me right now it\u2019s not possible, maybe someday.\u201d<\/p>\n Fils\u2019 run in Madrid has increased his points total by 190 to 1,930, which has lifted him seven places to 18th in the Live ATP Rankings.<\/p>\n READ NEXT: \u2018Arthur Fils has world No 3 written all over him \u2013 and he will 100% bag a few Grand Slams\u2019<\/a> The post Madrid Open: Arthur Fils makes defiant statement as he makes +8 ATP Rankings jump<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Arthur Fils has divulged that his run to the Barcelona Open title was motivated by \u201cawful\u201d comments made about him by a journalist. The French star secured his fourth ATP Tour title \u2014 and first since October 2024 \u2014 at the Barcelona Open earlier this month. It was Fils\u2019 third title at ATP 500 level. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}ATP Tour News<\/h2>\n
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