ATP CUP

February 2, 2021

Dennis Novak

Team Austria

Press Conference

D. NOVAK/F. Fognini

6-3, 6-2

Q. Talk about the win, how important it was to get your country off to a good start.

DENNIS NOVAK: The win was very good, very important for me. I was waiting for this day so long to start finally the season. Of course, that's tough opponent against Fabio. Of course I expected to win, but you never know what's coming from Fabio.

Yeah, it was a solid match. Very important to be one up. Once you're up, take a little bit of pressure from Dominic.

Q. What was the key to the match?

DENNIS NOVAK: I think it was just being solid, making him play a lot of balls, try to get him angry maybe that he loses his path. So, yeah, it was definitely a plan of me.

But I was trying to serve well, good percentage. Just tried to focus on every point.