Key quotes from the sixth day of the French Open at Roland Garros on Friday:
"I actually didn't. I just kept playing."
-- Joao Fonseca was asked how he kept believing when he trailed Novak Djokovic by two sets to love.
"I don't think I've done much wrong with my game. He was just better."
-- Djokovic reflects on losing to Fonseca.
"I fully agree with everything she says. I have been doing that in the beginning of the war."
"I just really don't have energy to fight this anymore. I have done it for over one and a half year, and it was difficult for me."
-- Marta Kostyuk endorses fellow Ukrainian Oleksandra Oliynykova's criticism of a Russian player.
"It was really hot. I think it's going to be much slower on Sunday, like, than all of these matches that I have played. It's going to be a cool match.
-- Kostyuk says hot is slow and slow is cool as she looks forward to facing Iga Swiatek
"Maybe this one is a bit extreme, because from one day 30 degrees it changes to 19, so quite strange."
-- Swiatek on wild weather swings at Roland Garros this year.
"It was a huge honour for him, I mean -- for him (laughing) -- for me. Yeah, duh. It was an honour for me to have him on the court and a privilege."
-- Swiatek on hitting with Rafael Nadal on her recent stop at his tennis academy.
"Deep down I was really just listening to my heart. That's what I do need. I went to Switzerland, I took time with my family. I went skiing. I went surfing. I went to visit my friend that lives in Berlin."
-- Swiss player Jil Teichmann took a break from playing from September last year to April.
"The competence of an umpire is not determined by their gender, but by their professionalism and ability to officiate at the highest level."
-- French Tennis Federation statement after Adolfo Daniel Vallejo criticised a woman umpire.
"It's funny, because when I was kind of far away from top 10 it was opposite. 'Can he have a normal haircut?' 'What is this with his hair?' 'He looks like a monkey.' 'He has no money to have a haircut?'
"Then when you start to be a better player, somehow you appear to the top 10, it's, like, 'Wow, what hair he has, what a style, he's a rock star. I had all my life, this hair."
-- Andrey Rublev responds to compliments on his hair.
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