Maxi Sanchez came to our microphone after his victory with Lucho Capra against Facundo Dominguez and Marc Quilez in the round of XNUMX of the Premier Padel Mendoza P1. The Argentinian already has his head turned to tomorrow's game, revenge against Lebron and Galan !

Glad to get back to winning ways

“After a difficult defeat like the one in Malaga, where we weren't able to play at our best level – we were a bit tired from the previous two weeks which were very intense – we are very happy to have won.

It's always difficult to start a tournament when you don't really know the conditions. It was a bit complicated in the second set after getting the break but we managed to play well in the key moments to come away with the victory.

We may find it harder than other players to adapt to different conditions. The track here is fast, the ball kind of fuses, and we struggled a bit at first. It will be better tomorrow, because we will already be used to it. In Rome and Madrid it was fast tracks, but the ball bounced a bit more so it was easier to defend.”

"Lebron and Galan arrive with the knife between their teeth"

“They will have the knife between their teeth because we we beat in our last encounter (Editor's note: in Madrid during the Premier Padel P1). We know it will be a very tough match, these are the number 1 (Editor's note: in the FIP ranking). I love playing against the best pairs, we have almost nothing to lose, and I think that both Lucho and I like it.”

Better with Capra than with any other player

“With Lucho, we are friends in life. Both times when we decided to part ways, it was in no way due to a problem off the track. I never felt better with a partner than with him, we wanted to see if we could do better with someone else but in the end both times we saw that together we play better than with any other teammate.

Today, as far as I am concerned, I would say that we will continue together. I am very comfortable with Lucho, and I have no intention of changing partners, but you never know what can happen…”

The biggest evolution of padel ? The game in transition!

“What has evolved the most in the padel in recent years is the game in transition. The players are very powerful and they can switch from attack to defense many times in a point. In the padel before, transitions were very rare. We saw very few players go from the back to the net as many times in a point and with the same speed. It was done more to surprise. Today players do it all the time.

Not to mention the viboras, volleys, smashes, everything has evolved enormously. Players have powerful smashes, viboras winners, volleys to take stock…

Maxi Sanchez backhand volley Madrid P1 2023

Personally, I've always been a player who works on the point from the bottom, who waits a bit for opponent errors to choose an easy ball to advance, but today there are no more easy balls: all the players make good viboras, good bandejas, good smashes. Even on good lobs, it smashes from very far, so you have to improve physically and especially on the transition. You have to be very skilful, very fast to be able to counter the game of the youngest.

His best result with news Kuikma PS Pro, no coincidence!

“I had already done some tests with them but I had never been able to test them in tournaments but I think they bring me a lot. I feel very comfortable on the rotations, the starts. Their super responsive heel and foam make me feel much more explosive than any other shoe I've had before.

The player needs a lot of things to feel comfortable, and for these shoes are some of the things that helped me the most in Madrid!”

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