■After going through many tough matches, Arthur Fils said he was "a little tired" when he stepped onto the court of the finals. His movements were slow in the beginning, and he seemed to be saving his energy. He lost the first set 5-7 which took an hour. At the beginning of the second set, he had a medical timeout and received a leg massage. Who would have thought that Fils would go on to win two sets in a row?

■In the second set, Fils said, "I just tried to keep my service game. I was trying to do everything I could.” In his service game at 3-4, he got the game from 0-40. From this point on, his movement came back to life. His powerful forehands, which had stunned the crowd so many times during this tournament were few, but he picked up the ball with his incredible stamina, as he brilliantly returned Ugo Humbert's fast shots.

■In the tiebreak of this set, Fils looked back on the passing shot he made on his opponent's match point, saying, "It was a crazy backhand." Indeed, it was an awesome shot that almost seemed unreal. This turned the tide. Fils, who should have been tired, showed energetic movements. Humbert, who has been playing incredibly throughout this tournament, could not handle this development. Fils, who defeated his best friend, with whom he played doubles at the Paris Olympics, proudly stated, "Tennis can change in just one second. It would not have been strange if I had lost. That was the kind of final it was.”

■Starting with a three-set first round match against top seed Taylor Fritz (USA), he went on to a three-set battle with last year's champion Ben Shelton (USA) in the quarterfinals. He took a medical timeout during the match to receive treatment on his lower body. In the semifinal against Holger Rune (DEN), both sets went to tiebreaks in a heated battle. At the moment of victory, Fils's leg cramps got worse and he grimaced as he collapsed onto the bench. The final lasted three hours and five minutes. The player who held the championship trophy was the player who had fought the hardest in the tournament.