World No. 23 Karen Khachanov assessed his form ahead of the Indian Wells Masters.
– What is your current condition, Karen Khachanov? What are you working on specifically right now? Because after the Eastern tour, you still had some time and days to train actively.
– Basically, as always. At the moment, I’m just trying to get in shape and play more matches.
– What do you need right now? What is the main problem?
– I need to play, get match practice, and try to win as many matches as possible, so that these matches are in a row. Not just one or two, then the next tournament, and again you train for a week or 10 days. After all, I trained enough since the pre-season, after Australia I did another training block, played tournaments in Marseille, Doha, Dubai, and now we are here in America.
– Again, only two tournaments, we will be in America for a month. It all depends on how many games in the end, how many matches will work out. Because it could be enough, or it could be not so much, and you will be training for 10 days again. There has been enough training, now the question is to gain form and rhythm through matches, through games.
– It’s also a matter of confidence, probably? How are things with that right now?
– I am in a good psychological state, there is nothing that I dislike. I really enjoy it, that moment that was is behind me. The results could be better, but I look at it positively – that I can only improve and add, and not that everything is bad, something is not working out. Because something will always work out, and something will not work out.
– Maybe my attitude towards Indian Wells has changed a little, because, in the end, I played a quarterfinal here, could have beaten Nadal that year and played well. Some years were a little worse. I want to abstract myself, not think about what was. Maybe some conditions have changed – who knows – maybe the balls have changed a bit, the courts. Therefore, as they say, we have turned that page and are starting with a clean slate, – said Khachanov in an interview.
