ATP: Cilic:”Wants to play for Grand Slams”

Marin Cilic has moved up to number four in the world rankings with a great season and will be setting higher goals for the coming 2018 season. The Croatian wants to play for the big titles.

The Croatian has big plans for 2018. Cilic wants to improve further next year and compete for the Grand Slams titles.

My team and I have tried out a lot and it turned out to be very positive,”said the service giant despite his elimination in the group stage of the ATP finals in London with three defeats in three games. I have played a very consistent season and raised my game to a new level,”Cilic told the press in the O2 arena in London. In fact, the 29-year-old played his personal career high and celebrated his 17th birthday in Istanbul. Career title. The 2014 US Open Champion wants to put pressure on the “big” players next year and even higher in the ranking:”Hopefully next year it will go on like this – I may be able to set my goals a little higher. Becoming number three in the world would be nice and I want to play for the Grand Slam titles,”added Cilic.

In addition to the best clay court season of his career, the Croatian played excellently on grass and worked his way into the Wimbledon final. There he had physical problems and lost Roger Federer. A groin injury threw Cilic back in front of the US Open before he started into the season-end sprint after a short break. With good results on the Asian tour, he secured his second consecutive participation in the finals and finished fourth in the world rankings in mid-October:”After the US Open, I found my form again and played well in the last three weeks in Basel, Paris and London,”says Cilic.

He would like to analyse in the team that it was not enough for the Croatian to win the best eight at the tournament:”It’s a pity that things went this way. There were a lot of points that I could have won. I’ll work on it with my team.”

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