[訪問]R16 Federer def Hewitt
R. FEDERER/L. Hewitt 3-6, 6-3, 6-0, 6-4
An interview with:LLEYTON HEWITT
Q. Do you have any feeling about that foot fault?
LLEYTON HEWITT: It's obviously disappointing when you hit an ace and you get a
foot fault called on you on a game point, I guess.
But, yeah, I still wouldn't have won the match even if -- at
that stage, anyway. I'm not going to take anything away from
Roger's win. He was too good tonight.
But, you know, it was obviously, you know, a bit disappointing,
the only foot fault I get the whole night, hit an ace off it.
Q. How long did you feel that that took the wind out of your sails? It was
obviously just a few games there where...
LLEYTON HEWITT: Probably only hurt me just that one game I think. I think
Roger sort of felt a bit of a relief, I guess. Could have been
3-all in that set.
You know, instead, he came out, worked a couple of forehands.
There really wasn't much I could do in the next two points.
So, you know, that was the one break for the set there. That
sort of set the second set up for him, and, you know, I felt
like I had a lot of chances out there tonight. I had a lot of
love-30s, I had a lot of breakpoints, especially early in the
second set there. I wasn't able to capitalize. Could have
easily been up a set and a break. Had a breakpoint in the first
game. Had some more later on as well, so...
Q. When he plays like that, does it get to a period where he's untouchable?
LLEYTON HEWITT: He goes through patches where he's pretty good. You got to try
and weather the storm as much as possible. I felt like I came
out and I was aggressive right from the start, I put a lot of
pressure on him. You know, probably just went in my shell there
for a couple of games and he was able to step it up and take
advantage of that, I think.
Yeah, as I said before, I think I really had to try and get on
top of him, you know, early in that second set after I got that
first set in the bag. He came up were a couple of big serves,
big forehands on those points.
And, yeah, there really wasn't much I could do probably on
those breakpoints anyway. I needed to probably get a little
bit of a look at a few more second serves, I'd say.
Q. Is this the best you saw him playing?
LLEYTON HEWITT: I don't know about the best. You know, he played in patches
tonight extremely well, yeah. I still felt like I had a lot
of chances out there, though.
You know, I'm -- it's hard to say that, you know, I guess the
semi and final of Wimbledon last year, that was probably as
well as he's probably ever played, I'd say.
Q. Can't rewrite history, of course. Do you think with the experience...
LLEYTON HEWITT: Sorry?
Q. We can't rewrite history.
LLEYTON HEWITT: Yeah.
Q. Sadly for you. But do you think that at the point 5-4, where you could have
maybe broken back 5-5, with all the experience of the Davis Cup, that might
have changed things?
LLEYTON HEWITT: Well, who knows, mate. If you're 5-all, you got a fighting
chance anyway. I can't tell you one way or another.
You know, he made a couple of -- you know, didn't quite go for
as much as normal, I think, or as he was earlier in the fourth
set, in the third set. That's normal to get a little bit tight
under those circumstances. He was playing down the tougher end
as well, you know, trying to finish it off.
But to his credit, he came up with some pretty big, big points
when he needed to.
Q. Both you and Mark came into this stage of the tournament playing fantastic
tennis. Beaten in the fourth round. Hasn't been a happy hunting ground this
fourth round of the Australian Open for Australian guys. Any idea what it
is about this stage of the tournament that's been so unkind to our players
recently, or how important it is putting this particular tournament in your
career goals?
LLEYTON HEWITT: Yeah, I don't know why but, you know, the years that I've made
the fourth round, you know, I felt like tonight I gave it a
good chance. I played a guy who was too good on the night. Last
year was a little bit of a once off, I guess, playing El
Aynaoui in the fourth round. I'd take that most times, playing
El Aynaoui in a fourth round rather than Federer. But El
Aynaoui played a hell of a match. Didn't break serve once.
The time before that, made the fourth round, it was 2000,
something like that, it was against Magnus Norman. At that
stage he was 3 or 4 in the world. I quite wasn't up to it.
In all those matches for me, personally, there's been reasons,
I think, why I've probably lost in this round. But I don't
think, you know -- Mark and I both played well, you know. I
didn't see much of his match today, but he obviously didn't
play as well as he probably could have today and has been
playing. I ran into a guy who was too good for me tonight.
Q. How much of a distraction were the fireworks?
LLEYTON HEWITT: It was a little bit. We got told before we went on by Peter
Bellinger there was gonna be fire works at about 9:15 for
about 10 minutes. They tried to hold them off, but they
weren't able to, or something.
It was a lot louder than I thought it was gonna be.
Q. Generally speaking, would you like to see the surface here any
different-paced?
LLEYTON HEWITT: Yeah, apparently it didn't get resurfaced. Yeah, to me, it
probably -- it felt like slower than it was in the September
Davis Cup tie. Reasons for that, I don't know, whether it was
because we laid a grass court on top of it, I really don't
know.
Felt a lot rougher. Felt like the balls were fluffing up a lot
more out there the last couple of weeks. You know, I think the
disappointing thing is we can't get a surface, you know -- I
practiced on Adelaide before I went to the Hopman Cup, then I
played in the Hopman Cup, I played in Sydney, I played in
Melbourne, and none of them are the same.
I think, you know, Sydney and Melbourne was the biggest
difference of all-time. They're the two supreme tournaments
in Australia, so...
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