The following highlights of Alexander Bucks speak after a victory of the first round against Sebastian Baez at the 2025 Miami Open with Harvey Fialkov and Randy Walker.
Harvey Fialkov:
Do you like Sascha or Alex?
Alexander Buthskik:
Alex.
Speaker 2:
Hey, Alex. First of all, great match today. You had everything going on. No negotiating because her over -handing worked so amazingly. Talk about your piece today.
Alexander Buthskik:
Well, I think I played solidly. I think I finally started to feel the game that I used to play, the player I was almost eight months ago. I had a difficult time, but I have the feeling that I’m on the right track. I have the victories that I really need and I have the game that is important that works at least for the time being. We’ll say it. And we keep going. We will continue to work hard and will see how it works. First, upstairs
Fialkov:
First top 50 profit in a while. And I also noticed that the drop shot is still an important part of their game. Bring me there until some of your recordings today.
Bukik:
I think it was always my core. I’ve been a drop shing since my eight, nine years. If we return to the past and only remember when my trainer always said to me: “Don’t shot. It’s too obvious.” Bla bla bla. But that will bring me to the top. That will bring me to the top 20. I think this is a core of my game. It will never disappear. I will drop a shot, I think to the rest of my career. So that’s it. There is not so much to say.
Fialkov:
Do you have the feeling that if you were a little less a showman at the beginning of your career, you might be on in your career? Because now it seems that they are a little more tennis than a showman.
Bukik:
I don’t think there is a (inaudible 00:01:24), maybe page who I am. And it is very easy to say: “What would be if Budskik was?” “What if Nick were?” But there is no if. If I were different, we may not speak now because I might be number one, but I can be 350 in the world or not even play tennis. We have this discussion throughout the team. And even today, in the morning, we saw the boys. It is difficult for me to wake up early. I never practice early. I practice from 1 p.m. This is the first exercise that I do during the day.
Fialkov:
I am a morning person.
Bukik:
Yes. No no. I don’t fight to play tennis. I only enjoy the process. And when we came here on Saturday because I played at 11:00 a.m., I was already here at 9:00 a.m. and I saw how players were already sweating on the pitch. And then my physio asked me: Do you think you could do that? I said, “I don’t know.” It is as if he is thinking if I would be this person, like 10 years ago my trainer would take me with me and say: “Man, you have to do that and that.” He said, “You would stop.” I also think that because I would probably break because it is not my personality. I am not the guy who just fights everything out just to win this little Miami and then cry all my … I take it more as work. I take it more as a dream, a children’s room that I succeed. And I can say that because I have achieved everything I could think of. Even more.
I never thought I would be a top -20 player. But what I do to become a top 20 player is difficult. So for me everything I enjoy. Yes, I sang in the ranking, but it’s okay because I still enjoy what I do. And as soon as I stop, I would just put on the racket.
Fialkov:
You play for the joy and-
Bukik:
I play because I want to play. I deserve enough. I won enough to say that I was a top player. I was a top 20 player. I hit most of the boys on the tour. So I play for myself because I want to play and because I still have a drive. I still have things that I think I can do better. And as soon as it will be gone, you won’t see me anymore. I will say goodbye to you and I will just put on the racket and live my peaceful life.
Randy Walker:
I am a great supporter of the negotiation. Do you think this is a trend that can continue when you do it and run it out and kyrgios?
Bukik:
I do not think so. It’s just a joke. It’s just something. If someone takes it too seriously, like a player who tries to do that too tactically, I think that is completely nonsense. I think if you can serve, you serve better. However, this is a type of recording that you can use if you want to enjoy a little if you want to entertain the crowd. So it cannot be won, it is only to be enjoyed. And if the player is ready to lose the point because the chance of probably losing, probably 90% is that you lose the point or make it into the network or to the outside, and then you have to operate a second. So the chances are high and they take the risks. It’s okay. It’s just a game. We tend to forget that tennis is only a game because it is now larger than the game. It’s just a game we play. You don’t play tomorrow. That’s it. So it’s very simple. So don’t take it too seriously, I think and just enjoy what players do.
WALKER:
When did you start using it for the first time?
Bukik:
I think I always thought the same way. And I always thought, even at a very low level, on the futures level I said: “Why you like that …” The boys cry for a futures victory. I am like: “Guys, come on. It’s so much ahead of you.” I can cry when I get Wimbledon. Maybe I’m crying when I go … I will most likely cry when I get done. But yes, I won today. What should I do? Place on my knees and cry and hate myself? A victory is a victory. You played better, you won. Great. You continue. You work hard, you are trying to get someone else. Maybe it will come, maybe it’s not. You never know.
Fialkov:
You now have a 3-year-old son. By the way, what is it called?
Bukik:
You’re done.
Fialkov:
Masili. And you also play for him. You would also like to show him how Dad can really do and have fun.
Bukik:
I don’t think he needs that. I think he takes care of it. I think if you actually tell him: “Look, I’m a tennis …” I think this is an ego problem. If I will tell my son who I am so that he does what? Better respect me or respect me more? Or why should I do that? I am his father. I’m just his father. And if he would like to know my story, I will share a story. But if he doesn’t want to know my story, it’s only around him. And I don’t think it’s important to him. Yes, he knows that I’m dad. He is a tennis player. He plays somewhere. And I think that’s more than enough. In my opinion, I don’t want him to live my life. I want him to have his own life.
Fialkov:
Who has a better negotiation? You or nick?
Bukik:
We have to carry out a competition.
