Hewitt 美網第二輪賽後訪問
Lleyton Hewitt
Thursday, August 28, 2003
Q. He was really going for his shots. Hard opponent to get a rhythm against.
LLEYTON HEWITT: Yeah. I knew he was a talented player. I actually watched him
on the TV a little bit when he won Sydney earlier in the year.
Yeah, he's a shot-maker. He plays very flashy. He's a great
mover. He hits the ball very flat out there. Felt like actually
the better I played, the better he played. I think, you know,
the standard sort of showed. You know, the best game of the
match was obviously the last game. I would have liked to have
went out a little bit easier. But, you know, still happy to
get through.
Q. Was that a step up from your first round?
LLEYTON HEWITT: The opponent was a lot tougher today. You know, he's had big
wins. As I said, he beat Ferrero in Sydney, Roddick. He's
beaten a lot of tough players. I didn't take him lightly at
all. You know, I just didn't feel like I was probably as
aggressive at the start, and that's probably where I changed
the match around in the second set.
Q. Even though it's only the second round, it seems like it's a nice evolution
to move from a fairly easy first-round match? Only four sets, but felt like
it was five.
LLEYTON HEWITT: It was a tough match. Yeah, even in the first set, I was down
a break twice and I had to fight back from it. You know, in
the end, 5-All, he hit sort of a shank dropshot. Then he
played a good game to break me at 6-5.
Yeah, it was tough tennis. I felt like when I stepped it up,
you know, took the initiative a little bit more, you know, I
played some of my best tennis in the second and third sets.
In the fourth, he started serving a lot better.
Q. How would you describe your form, the way you think you're playing in this
hard court swing?
LLEYTON HEWITT: I played some good matches. In LA, I played pretty well the
whole tournament, I felt. Against Ferreira, I didn't play my
best tennis, but still a point away from winning.
Where did I go then? Montreal, played great against Bob Bryan
the first round. Second round against Mirnyi, one of those
matches where he served big, I lost five in the third. I lost
five in the third to Ferreira the week before, five in the
third to Mirnyi. Went to Cincinnati, didn't play a great match
against Malisse.
Q. What was your sort of mental attitude coming in here? How did you feel?
LLEYTON HEWITT: You know, you walk into this place, it's not like walking into
Cincinnati or Montreal. This is a Grand Slam. You know, this
is what you play for. This is what tennis is all about.
Yeah, not many people will remember what happened in Montreal
or Cincinnati if you go out and win this tournament.
I walked into the place, trained as hard as possible the last
week and a half since I lost in Cincinnati. You know, I felt
like I've given myself every opportunity of playing well here,
whether it happens or not. I've started well enough, got to
keep going.
Q. You practiced a bit with Federer.
LLEYTON HEWITT: I practiced one day with him.
Q. Is it good to practice with a guy that good?
LLEYTON HEWITT: You know, obviously I hit with Flip down in Florida for a few
days down there, then came here. The guys I pretty much hit
with, Federer, Flip. That's about it pretty much. You know,
but they're two classy guys. Henman, as well.
It wasn't like I was hitting against the best players. I felt
like I was grinding, getting my game going coming in here
anyway.
Q. Even when you were No. 1, I think you probably said many times you wanted
your first serve to get better. Is that an area you'd like to improve in?
LLEYTON HEWITT: Yeah. I didn't serve great today. I felt like my ball toss
was all over the shop today. It's an area that, yeah, I want
to work on. Then again, you're sort of between a rock and a
hard place a little bit. You go for it. A guy my size, you
either can kick it in, get the point started, get a high
percentage in, or you can go for it and try to get a lot of
cheap points. You're going to have a lower percentage.
There's some matches I feel I served great in the past. When
I won here two years ago, towards the end of the tournament,
I probably served as well as I ever served, even at Wimbledon
last year. I do have times where I feel like my motion is
good. Right at the moment, I don't feel that comfortable with
it. But I'm getting through matches.
If that comes together, I feel like I'm playing pretty well.
Q. What is a happy medium, you play more difficult opponents, come against
people like Agassi with a great return, what's a happy medium? Do you go
for it more then, just get them in?
LLEYTON HEWITT: I'll do it depending on how I'm feeling, how the match probably
starts a little bit. Yeah, Andre is probably one in a million,
return of serve, as well. If you got to play him, it's going
to be tough no matter how well you're serving - I think for
anyone.
At the time, you play with instinct once you get out there.
Q. You've done great without a huge serve. Have you thought about tinkering
with technology, longer racquet, trying it out?
LLEYTON HEWITT: Not really. I've picked it up before. It just doesn't feel
right to me, picking it up. You know, I think for what I'd
get out of maybe helping my serve, I'd probably lose in --
you know, I think it would probably take a while to change,
if you were going to change to something like that.
I don't know how easy -- when you sort of hold it, volleying
with a longer racquet, it feels a bit weird. It feels like it
gets in the way. It feels a lot more than an inch, inch and a
half longer.
Q. Three match points, failed on, is there a danger of frustration creeping
in at that point?
LLEYTON HEWITT: Yeah. For sure, I think for anyone. It's hot enough out there,
you want to get back in the locker room as soon as possible.
Especially when I played a good game to break, to finally break
at 4-All, to come out. Yeah, I felt like I played a pretty
good game, yet I wasn't in the locker room. He really stepped
it up.
As I said before, the better I played, the better he ended up
playing. You know, he took it to me. I just had to hang tough
there. Obviously, I came up with a huge backhand up the line
on one of the breakpoints.
Q. With time you get experience, savvy about how to play. Is there something
about the Lleyton Hewitt of 2001 that you would like to have back, something
that you sort of miss a little bit?
LLEYTON HEWITT: Not really (smiling). You know, I still feel like I've got all
the weapons and all the strengths that I had back then. You
know, right at the moment, I just feel like I'm not quite
peaking at the moment. I think one match can turn that all
around.
Q. None sort of that reckless, fearless stuff of youth?
LLEYTON HEWITT: No. I don't think too many guys would have gone for the
backhand up the line on breakpoint today.
Q. There are wins and wins in guy's careers. Hindsight, this might be an
important one for you, do you think?
LLEYTON HEWITT: You know, it's pretty important to get through any early rounds
of Grand Slams. You know, I know that as well as anyone after
Wimbledon.
You know, for me to keep fighting, obviously you could have
got down a little bit on yourself, after losing the first set
and having chances. I had to put my head down and grind back.
In the end, I'm happy to come through this one. I can't look
too far forward, though.
Q. Yesterday ScottDraper was saying to him the only difference in 2000, 2001,
under pressure you hit every line. He said maybe now you're missing it by
just a little bit. That's enough to lose a point here and there. Is that
sort of the way you see it? Is it that simple?
LLEYTON HEWITT: You know, I think there are times like that, yeah. I feel like
I'm hitting the ball as well as I've ever hit it in practice.
I just got to try and take that over to the match court.
Yeah, tennis is such a funny game. I felt like I've had a lot
of breakpoints; even today I had a lot of breakpoints, didn't
quite capitalize on them. I think probably in the couple years
before that, I probably made a lot more of those chances.
That's something that you can work on, to a certain extent,
but there's still a little bit of luck involved, I guess,
seeing whether the guy makes a big first serve on a breakpoint
or not.
Q. Is it fair to say the one thing you probably miss this year is being right
at the heart of a Grand Slam, right in there challenging?
LLEYTON HEWITT: Yeah, well, I think if I get towards the quarters or the semis,
that's probably when I'm at my most dangerous. You know, I
know what you got to do to win slams. I think if -- I've always
said, even with my game, I guess, is my personality to a
certain extent, if I can get through the first couple of
rounds, sometimes they're the toughest.
If I can get through this one, obviously get myself into the
second week, hit the ball, have that confidence going, I've
been in that situation before.
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