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May 17th 2009
Roger Federer (SUI) bt Rafa Nadal (ESP): 6 - 4 | 6 - 4
Q. How satisfying is that for you and how well do you think you played?
A. I thought I played really well, I think you have to against Rafa on clay, there are no easy ways there. He is not going to hand it to you and that is what has made him so tough the last few years on this surface. I thought I mixed it up well; I served well and was dangerous on particular return games. I thought I took all the right decisions today and in the end it looked pretty comfortable so it was a perfect win for me.
Q. Are you relieved to beat Rafa Nadal after nearly two years?
A. Well not really. I was so close in Australia and Wimbledon, of course it is nice. It´s not like “oh, finally I got him again”. I felt I was close to Rafa and I felt that, even though you lose, you keep the belief, especially on this type of surface because you come into the press rooms and they all they talk about is Rafa and it works you and you don´t want to believe what the press says, you want to stay positive and that´s what I did. I am very happy that I remained positive and I got the win I needed badly because I have had some rather bad losses this year in terms of the way I played but I think that everything is falling into place and I felt it coming the last few weeks so it is the right time to get a victory like this.
Q. You said to is yesterday that you might just wake up this morning and go for it. You did?
A. Yeah, I think so. I definitely didn´t try to go into massive amounts of rallies but at the same time, Rafa was missing some returns and I kept him guessing many times. We have both played better, in the past, from the baseline and I´m sure that´s what it is going to take to beat Rafa at the French Open. This was a particular clay court match against each other; for both of us we both had trouble controlling the ball, because the pints were kept shorter it was better for my game and that´s why I won today.
Q. After your Hamburg title two years ago, you said that you learned something about how to play Rafa on clay; Did you learn something new about his game today, thinking about Paris?
A. Not a whole lot. I know his game inside out. It´s not like he changes many things, he is just rock solid like when Leyton Hewitt was no. 1 and all those other guys who were dominating from the baseline. He does his one thing excellent and he is the best mover on this surface.
He is just an excellent competitor and that is what makes him so difficult to beat.
I know what you have to do but it´s not easy to do against him because he is so good.
Q. Did you notice that he was slightly slower today than usual?
A. No, not really. I think and I am sure - that´s my approach anyway – that when I go into a match and I start and finish a match there are no excuses, otherwise you retire during the match, which is not my philosophy, or you don´t play, but I don´t think you should play injured or hurt or whatever it is. We didn´t have many rallies so I don´t know where you can see that he was slow. As I said, conditions were tough out there, tough to control the ball and I saw some of those things against Djokovic, that he was struggling in the beginning to control his serve and probably Djokovic should have finished him off in two but then the adrenalin and the whole thing that Rafa came back with made it difficult for him to close out the match so I just raced to the finish line and it was all over before he could react so it was a good match.
Q. First of all congratulations, they said that the clay is a little bit hard because Madrid is a little but high for the players; we want to know if it was a problem for you because you beat Nadal here?
A. Yes, I think it was tough for both of us today. You could see that we both struggled to control the balls but like I said yesterday I don´t think it´s so extreme, it´s not like it´s impossible to control. I think it´s interesting to be playing on clay at a different altitude, I´ve played in Gstad before which gives you opportunities to play aggressive and it´s more interesting that you have the chance to come forward and you have the chance to play aggressive and it´s not so easy to hit passing shots because at times on other surfaces when it´s so slow it´s almost impossible to come to the net because the guy is just moving past so well that this is a nice change for me.
Q. You said in Rome that since your back problems you were having trouble finding the motion of your serve the way it used to be before; it seems that this week things sort of clicked for you?
A. I had some good serving already this year but then at the same time I couldn´t do it consistently. I would go through a few games where I would serve very well and then get broken a couple of time is a row and that´s not something that I am used to. I just felt that I couldn´t hit my spot so well and today and this whole week it has been coming back. I am obviously aware that this is altitude and that it´s easier to serve well here and to mix it up but still I feel, in my body, that the serves are working, the motion as well, I have the right rhythm and I think that is very good looking forward to the French Open where it is important to serve well, for me.
Q. How important is this win for you going into the French, does it massively change your confidence going in?
A. Yes, I think that at this stage it does. Now that I haven´t won a tournament yet this year, in other years it didn´t matter whether I won or lost, I was always one of the top two or favorites. This year it looked like other guys might come moving up but I always knew that I was going to get stronger week by week on clay, obviously I didn´t give myself the best opportunity in Monaco but I worked extremely hard in the two off weeks I had before and after Rome and it´s all finally paying off, it´s not the moment to get carried away but it is definitely good for my confidence especially beating Rafa in the final so it definitely proves that I am doing the right things and I am working extremely hard and it is paying off so it´s a nice feeling. I am very excited about going to Paris whereas a couple of weeks ago I was still a little bit unsure about my game and not sure if I could win the French. Obviously that has not changed.
Q. Confidence is a fragile thing for players and this is now Rafa´s first defeat in 33 clay court games and he has lost to you as well, his main rival; Do you think that might have some impact on his psychology going into Paris?
A. I snapped his streak at 81, a couple of years ago and it didn´t really bother him too much – he went back on another streak so I don´t think so. Sure, it´s nice to beat him in his own country where it is probably the hardest, you see the spectators and it´s pretty tough when it gets close plus he has that game which keeps you doubting because you have to keep going for your shots and as the crowd gets into it it´s hard but I don´t think that’s he is going to be damaged by this. He has played so well in Monaco, Barcelona and Rome, I think this is probably the best clay court season he has had so far so I´m sure he will be rock solid in Paris again.
Q. Andre Agassi was talking yesterday about the Slams and he said that he thought Nadal had a chance of winning all four this year; do you think that he has improved that much and has a chance of doing that?
A. Well he is the only guy who has obviously. I don´t know, same as me the last few years when a guy wins the Australian Open. I think when a guy wins the Australian Open and his better surface is clay then sure there is a big chance that he might go two for two but I came very close a few times and it´s not the easiest thing to do. I said a couple of weeks ago that he definitely has a chance. There are guys who don´t want to allow him to do that and I am the first guy so... I have a great record at Wimbledon and the US Open and I have my dreams at the French Open so I have some say there hopefully.
Q. You bet Rafa Nadal, one hour ago, two years ago and you bet him today to; What about in Roland Garros, will you beat him because we heard that he was a little bit tired and he hadn´t slept too well?
A. I hope that when we play each other that he is not going to sleep much either because he knows that I am waiting the next day. I don´t think that it makes any difference that he played a long match yesterday and that he didn´t sleep much. Sure, it´s not the perfect preparation but I think that we are all tough enough to take it so that´s why he was out there today trying hard for the spectators and for himself. I am sure Paris is a different circumstance, he has never lost there, obviously his confidence is very high there but I think that we have seen this week, that if you play Rafa the right way there are chances whereas sometimes he has gone out and dominated just about everybody on clay and it is good from the other players and also from myself, that it´s most important because I am always the one gunning after Rafa, especially at the French Open and I hope that this year could be the right one.
昨日は試合開始の時に珍しくRogiがナダルより遅れてnet に行きました。
いつもと反対にナダルがコイントスを待っていたので、不思議でしたが、BLICKのインタビューによると、
レシーブを選択したのも、すべて自分のタイミングでゲームを開始したかったからのようです。
http://www.blick.ch/sport/tennis/federe ... ng--119376FacebookのRogiのカキコによると、週明け早々にパリへ向かうそうです。良い準備ができますように
20日から始まるエキシビ Masters Guinot-Mary Cohr の出場もありますし、なかなか忙しい。
http://www.guinotmarycohrmasters.com/infos.html20日(水) 13:30~
Andy Murray (GBR) - Paul-Henri Mathieu (FRA)
Gaël Monfils (FRA) - Marcos Baghdatis (CHY)
21日(木) 13:30~
Roger Federer (SUI) - Stanislas Wawrinka (SUI)Rafael Nadal (ESP) - Arnaud Clément (FRA)
22日(金) 13:30~
Kei Nishikori (JPN) - Tommy Haas (ALL)
Marat Safin (RUS) - James Blake (USA)
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