[溫網] 2nd Round - Roddick v Udomchoke 訪問
A. Roddick - 27 June
Wednesday, 27 June, 2007
Andy Roddick (USA) [3] beat Danai Udomchoke (THA) 6-3, 6-4, 7-6
Q. In the past you've talked to us about working on, improving various areas
of your game, your backhand, return, volleying.
ANDY RODDICK: Yeah.
Q. Do you feel like it's still a work in progress or more like a finished
product at this point?
ANDY RODDICK: No, I mean, I'm not a finished product. But, you know, getting
there.
You know, I think you're always kind of looking to improve.
Q. Is there some specific area you've been working on lately, something you
feel needs improvement at this point?
ANDY RODDICK: You know, I don't know if you choose the middle of Wimbledon to
start working on something. I think it's been kind of been a
common sentiment since we got together to get forward a little
bit more, drive the ball a little bit more. You know, it's an
ongoing process.
Q. You seemed to be enjoying yourself out there today.
ANDY RODDICK: At times. At times. It was kind of an up and down match, even
the way I played. Mentally I was a little bit up and down. You
know, got through it.
Q. Have you heard many noises like that from an umpire before?
ANDY RODDICK: I don't know what that was.
Q. His microphone.
ANDY RODDICK: Sure it was his microphone. It was barking frogs.
Q. As you play, how much of it is the technical side and how much, as you
win, is getting the confidence to go on to the next round in a Grand Slam
tournament?
ANDY RODDICK: I mean, technically, I don't know if you're sitting here in the
middle of a tournament and you're worrying about your technique.
You're not worrying about like following through and stuff like
that.
I think you're more worried about how you're going to develop
points, you know, how you're going to win points. So I'd say a
lot more of it has to do with confidence and just kind of trying
to survive in advance.
I don't think a lot about technique during a tournament. There's
kind of a time and a place for that.
Q. Does each win add to the confidence?
ANDY RODDICK: Sure. I mean, I came into the tournament pretty confident, so
that was a good thing. You know, just the thing is, just give
yourself another opportunity to play another day. That's kind of
how you get deep into a draw in a Slam.
Q. You were talking last week a little bit about concentration was a thing
you were working on. Are you better in your mind at that? Have you erased
that problem?
ANDY RODDICK: It's not really a problem. I had a bad game in the second set
of a match against Cilic at Queen's and played a tournament full
of concentration where I was winning tough matches.
Today I probably had a bad two game stretch. I don't know if two
bad games in the stretch of three weeks is necessarily a problem.
But it's something that you don't get away with later on in
tournaments.
Q. Everyone has been talking about the quality of the grass out there on
Centre, I think because it's open now, the grass in even better nick than it
has been in years gone by. Do you sense that as well?
ANDY RODDICK: It's tough to say today just because you know it's different
than the conditions you're used to because it's cold. It's kind
of inconsistent winds. It's blowing one minute, it's not, and
then it's blowing kind of hard, and then it switches directions.
It's a little bit unpredictable. I don't know if I would be the
best to get a true read on how it's playing considering the
other variables.
Q. Because it is more open and the wind is going to be a factor, do you sense
it's going to be a trickier championship to win in those terms? Because it's
going to be like this the next few days as well.
ANDY RODDICK: I think for every person I don't know if I can analyze closed,
open, all that stuff. I think for every person you find that's
going to say it's open, the wind is going to get there, you're
going to find someone who says, Well, when there's a roof it's
going to swirl, something like that.
I don't know, windy is windy. Not windy is not windy. You know,
you're probably smarter than I am. You can go into the cause and
effect of it.
Q. Do you feel like The Championships were more open to clay courters or
baseliners, Rafael Nadal, for example? If so, what is the reason?
ANDY RODDICK: Is it more?
Q. Open.
ANDY RODDICK: Yeah, sure. I think you'd find that it's pretty common
sentiment that over the last 10 years this tournament has slowed
down and you're getting a truer balance. I think, therefore, you
give it opens the chance up to a lot more different styles of
play.
Q. There's a real chance for Nadal to win, for the others?
ANDY RODDICK: You're asking me if he has a chance to win this tournament?
Q. Real chance.
ANDY RODDICK: Yeah, sure. I mean, he's proven he can play big matches. He's
been to a final here. I don't know if you'll find someone who
says he has no chance.
Q. As a player I'm sure you like the truer bounce. Is there anything lost in
having some of that quirkiness taken out of the surface?
ANDY RODDICK: Well, I think a lot of it's if it's worn, I think the more it
gets worn in it becomes less soft and the ball starts shooting a
bit more. I think earlier on you find it's a little bit spongy,
maybe starts checking a little bit.
But if it's a normal grass court and the conditions are right,
it's still quick enough.
Q. I'm talking about funny bounces.
ANDY RODDICK: What about them? Sorry.
Q. If the condition is so even, the condition of the court, you miss the
bounces?
ANDY RODDICK: I think the way I feel, I feel like I'm one of the best grass
court players. I'd like to take away as many of the equalizers as
possible. I think that would work against me in this tournament.
Q. You've been in London for a few weeks. You appeared on the Jonathan Ross
show. Not too many tennis players do. Can you tell us how you enjoyed it,
how you found the evening?
ANDY RODDICK: It was fun. I had seen the show before. I had heard his kind of
reputation. I knew that I had to come out aggressive. I was able
to take that mindset to the stage, really follow through on the
game plan (smiling).
Q. Jonas Bjorkman has spoken today about a quite serious issue, about how a
few things have been disappearing from the player locker room. Your thoughts
on whether you've had anything stolen, how unusual it must be in this
environment for things to disappear?
ANDY RODDICK: To be honest, I'm as informed as you are. I glanced at it this
morning in the paper probably the same as you did.
Obviously, I mean, if that's the case, that's what's going on,
that's really disappointing 'cause the locker room is a place
where you feel like you can leave your stuff and not have to
worry about it. If it's happening, that's pretty disappointing.
Q. This is a very special tournament for you. Can you tell us how you feel
the first time you played here? Were you nervous, excited? How was it?
ANDY RODDICK: Yeah, probably all of those emotions kind of jumbled together.
You know, as an American, we wake up, and I remember my family,
we'd make time, we'd have Breakfast at Wimbledon every weekend.
My mom would cook. We'd all get up before we probably should have
, get ready for the tennis, kind of do it as a family. To be
playing in it was surreal.
Now it's to the point where my mom just gets up and cooks for my
dad. It's an easier work load now that I'm over here playing.
Q. How do you feel about Fernando Verdasco in case you have to play him?
ANDY RODDICK: I mean, there's no question about his talent, kind of what he's
capable of. We've played many times. Never on grass. I don't know
if there are going to be a lot of secrets out there.
Q. It's a big day for the Brits today. How do you feel about Gordon Brown
taking over?
ANDY RODDICK: The funniest thing that I saw that was great this morning when
I woke up was they televised the moving van literally pulling up,
and they followed the moving van down the street when he's moving
his crap out. I think that's hilarious. We need to get a moving
van in the States somewhere. That would be hilarious. I think
it's pretty funny.
But, you know, on a serious note, I'm not going to pretend too
much to know about the political views of Gordon Brown. I think
I'd be on the verge of ignorance if I touched on that any more.
But I'm a big fan of the televising of the moving van.
Q. You mentioned watching Wimbledon as a kid, the ritual. As usual there were
articles in the paper about how Wimbledon doesn't have the edge that it used
to.
ANDY RODDICK: That's probably written by someone who didn't bother to make
the trip over, correct?
Q. You are absolutely correct.
ANDY RODDICK: Then we don't need to touch on that anymore, do we?
Q. If there were one or two ways you could improve tennis in America, not
saying it's good or bad now, but to make it even more dynamic, what would
that be?
ANDY RODDICK: I don't know. It's tough to say. All you hear is, and pretty
much this is the case with every sport, you always hear about how
past generations were the greatest. It's almost like we should
appreciate what we have before we have to look back and remember
how much we miss it.
America's tough just because it's so big, it's so spread out. We
don't have the training center that everybody goes to. It's a
different culture with kids not wanting to give up their high
school experience. It's tough.
But I think they're doing a better job of getting past people who
have experienced, who are in the tennis, kind of developing the
talent now, past players. I think that's good.
I think the move to Boca will be a good thing, having on site
living so people aren't paying out of pocket like they would in
Key Biscayne. For a touring pro to stay in Key Biscayne during a
training week, it's not easy. I think that's a good thing.
I think they're moving in the right direction. I think they just
need to utilize people who have kind of been there and who want
to try to help.
Q. Would you like to see Andre having a more direct role in terms of player
development in America?
ANDY RODDICK: I think the obvious question to that is, any capacity you can
get Andre Agassi giving advice on tennis will help America. But
at the same time his priority is going to be his family. There's
only so much of him to go around.
I think he's earned the right to kind of dedicate himself to
whatever he wants for a little while.
Q. Did you catch any of James' comments yesterday? He was a bit defensive
about American tennis with you and he in the top 10, two guys in the top 10,
is doing pretty well, and the Bryan Twins, et cetera. We got into how do you
make tennis more popular in the United States.
ANDY RODDICK: The thing about the popularity and stuff, you know, we're going
bigger stadiums, you're still selling out in a lot of places that
we go to. I think the biggest thing is just, you know, and I've
said it ad nauseam for some of the people in here, you're kind of
getting over the best generation ever from one country. Before
that you probably had the second best generation. It's cyclical.
But to sit here and say there's something wrong with it when,
like you said, with the exception of Fed, Nadal, who else is
winning Slams right now? Outside of Fed, who else is winning
Slams on any other surface? So it's all relative.
We continually kind of have guys pushing at the top. I think
James had a good year last year. The reemergence of Venus and
Serena is a good thing. You look at the ratings for the US Open
last year, we're up. It depends on how you want to define
"popularity" I think.
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