Grigor Dimitrov defeated Jared Donaldson 10-8 in the fifth set to reach the French Open third round. Good win, but the talking point most people are talking about is the underarm serve. What was your thought about it? 'Everything is in the game', Dimitrov said. 'Simple as that.

I mean, I know how it is to feel like you're cramping. So I guess he just wanted to find some other way, and that was that. I think it was very smart for him to do that. I mean, I think I've done it once in my career and I think it worked.

So when he did it, I just -- I was like, Okay, now I know how he feels. So I knew what is it to be on the other side, and I don't think about it too much, to be honest, when he did it. In a way, I was expecting it at some point.

I thought he could have tried something like that, and, yeah. Tell us about the celebration at the end. 'I know the feeling. I know what is it to be on the other side and cramping. I mean, after playing for about, what, a little over four hours, it's great.

I mean, I just -- I felt good. I thought I had quite a little bit left in the tank, so that was great. And I think it meant a lot to the whole team, but especially to my fitness guy, to Sebastien. And me and him will always joke around when we are working really hard and we start laughing.

You know, you get to that point that you're so tired because you've loaded up the legs so much. And today was all smiles on our side. So I think that was just a big appreciation'. And kissing the knees? 'It was the legs.

I mean, I thought I could have fought a little more. But I was like, you know what? I'm just going to kiss the knees. It was nothing about the knees. It was mainly the legs, so that was that. As I said, it felt good. And to be able to feel so good in terms of, like, physicality.

I mean, I know he tried his best. I know he was playing very physical tennis from the first point. So I kind of knew that it was going to be very hard for him to keep that up. It doesn't matter how good he was playing. I knew I was going to -- at one of the sets, I knew I'm going to have a chance for me to kind of step into the match and kind of take everything in my hands.

But, again, I think he played a very, very good match. But, again, ultimately, I found a way to -- in a way, to finish the match in a comfortable way even though the score was 10-8 in the fifth.' .

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