Hewitt rolled

看板Hewitt作者noanoa (noanoa)時間22年前 (2003/01/20 16:38)推噓3(3推 0噓 0→)

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Hewitt rolled Monday, 20 January, 2003 by Scott Spits Updated at 6.35pm AEST Australia's great hope to win the Australian Open, world No.1 Lleyton Hewitt, has been bundled out of Australian Open 2003 in an epic fourth-round clash with Moroccan Younes El Aynaoui. In a memorable clash that lasted more than three-and-a-half hours, the first break of serve happened late in the final set with El Aynaoui eventually winning 6-7 (4-7), 7-6 (7-4), 7-6 (7-5), 6-4. Following the match Hewitt felt he had played well and paid tribute to his opponent El Aynaoui. "He normally makes a few more unforced errors or hits double faults but he was just in the zone and had great rhythm on his serve today," said the top seed. "I gave it everything I have but he was too good. It's tough at the moment but I have to try not to get too disappointed and just bounce back bigger and better." Hewitt acknowledged the expectations placed on him at his home Grand Slam. "Obviously the pressure and expectation on you are more focussed but when you are a top player playing in a Grand Slam then there's always pressure and ex pectation. I try to block it out as much as possible, try to enjoy the fact t hat there are 15,000 people barracking for me." And a visibly upset Hewitt said he was going to try and take learn from the experience. "At the moment it's really disappointing - there's no other way to put it (~~><~~)- but I didn't leave anything out there today. I gave every thing I have. When I look back on this match in a couple of weeks or a couple of months when I feel like thinking about it again, I will honestly be able to say I fought as hard as I could out there." (盡力就好,別太難過...) It is the second time that El Aynaoui, the No.18 seed, has reached the quarter-final stage at a Grand Slam tournament after he reached the final eight at last year's US Open. The Moroccan will now play American Andy Roddick who managed perhaps his greatest ever Grand Slam effort - coming back from two-sets-to-love - to defeat dangerous Russian Mikhail Youzhny. Roddick, 20, who has reached the quarters at the past two US Opens, agreed he may not have been capable of such a comeback one or two years ago. Earlier, his compatriot James Blake had a disappointing fourth-round clash, losing to German No.31 seed Rainer Schuettler. Roddick lost the first set to Youzhny in a tie-break before winning 6-7 (4-7) , 3-6, 7-5, 6-3, 6-2 on Vodafone Arena. Earlier, Schuettler started strongly and, despite dropping the third set, had the measure of his more fancied opponent 6-3, 6-4, 1-6, 6-3. The 26-year-old said he wasn't concerned about whether he was the favourite or the underdog. "I go out there (and) I try to play my best," he said. "I had no pressure tod ay at all. I just went out there, tried to play good tennis, and I did, so I' m happy with it."(加油吧..祝福你...) Schuettler committed only 19 unforced errors for the match to Blake's 35 on the way to his first Grand Slam quarter-final. His previous best result at a Grand Slam was a fourth-round loss to Carlos Moya at Melbourne Park two years ago. Schuettler will play the winner of tonight's round-of-16 clash between Argent ine No.10 seed David Nalbandian and Swiss No.6 Roger Federer. ***我會用最後一分精力翻譯小希ㄉ訪問,然後再去療傷...想看的人等我吧...*** -- ※ 發信站: 批踢踢實業坊(ptt.csie.ntu.edu.tw) ◆ From: 61.217.125.22