“The points, they leave, they come back, it’s OK,” he said of his current perch of No. 32 in the ATP rankings. “Sometimes you win some matches; sometimes you lose some. The points is not a big pressure for me.
“The only pressure that I got was would I be able to come back to my level to where I left, you know. That was the only question. You know, I talk a lot with my team, my friends about it. I’m, like, ‘Well, I know I will be back, but what level?’
“I just had to keep working, stay very patient, like you said, because it’s long, it’s a long process. … So [I] just stay very focused on the work, try to not watch the other players because, well, it’s nice to watch them for one tournament or a second tournament, but then you start to feel, OK, the guys are improving a lot.
“Me … I don’t know how I’m gonna be after [the injury], so just try to focus on myself, my way to be back. And, yeah, I think we made a great job.”
