Re: OMG! Nico退賽!

[nomad5 (my spine)]

OPEN 13 - MARSEILLE Feb. 15, 2003
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Federer Marches on in Marseille

No. 1 seed Roger Federer marched into the final of the OPEN 13 on
Saturday at the Palais des Sports de Marseille. Federer dispatched
a hot Karol Kucera in straight sets, ending Kucera's eight match
winning streak that included a victory at a Challenger in Poland
last week.

Though Kucera pushed Federer to a first-set tiebreak, the Swiss
star's all-court game was too much for Kucera, who had upset local
favorite Sebastien Grosjean earlier in the week.

In the day's other contest, and much to the disappointment of the
French crowd here in Marseille, Nicolas Escude was unable to play
his match withdrawing from the semifinals with a strained right
hamstring. Escude noted that while his injury was not severe, he
did not want to risk any serious injury that would keep him out of
competition for longer periods of time.

As a true local star, Escude went on to the court and addressed the
crowd before his scheduled match with Sweden's Jonas Bjorkman to
explain his unfortunate circumstances. Bjorkman then spoke with the
fans over the microphone as well before entertaining everyone in
the stadium by hitting and playing with young players.

WHAT THE PLAYERS SAID
Nicolas Escude: "It was not a major injury, but it was a strain. I
didn't think I could be 100% and I just didn't want to aggravate
the injury."

"I made the decision because I've experienced this before. At Wimbledon
last year, I was injured and couldn't play for three months."

"I'm still planning on going to Rotterdam, it is deceiving because I
felt great and I was playing great. The only positive thing is that I
didn't lose here at all this week."

Jonas Bjorkman: "Of course you always want to win by playing but
situations like this are going to happen. It's sort of a different
experience for me because it's the first time it has happened this
late in the tournament to me. But given the fact that I've played
so many matches in the past week, it was a lucky break."

FINAL PREVIEW

In the doubles final, Fabrice Santoro will be looking for his 11th
consecutive doubles victory having won at the Australian Open with
partner Michael Llodra and winning his Davis Cup doubles match before
his showing this week with partner Sebastien Grosjean. They play the
Czech team of Tomas Cibulec and Pavel Vizner who received a walkover
on Saturday when Nicolas Escude withdrew.




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→ Grosjean:原來nomad5也是Nico...你也還沒睡啊!
→ nomad5:對呀:p 心情不好想做事
→ Grosjean:Why 心情不好?
→ nomad5:哈哈　因為我對我逝去的九零年代很懷念
→ Grosjean:推 逝去的九零年代。天啊，突然想到那小虎
→ Grosjean:隊，ouch說1989年，還再九零年之前!
→ nomad5:hahaha! 對耶　一比之下還真久咧
→ nomad5:再過一下子就可以去吃早餐了:p
→ Grosjean:是啊~~ 這時候可以問候一聲 "早安"
→ nomad5:都不知道多久沒跟人家說早安了XD 早安
→ Grosjean:剛剛下站的朋友跟我道早安才下站...
→ Grosjean:可惜天還沒亮，還不覺得早
→ Escude:說真的我肚子好餓　哈哈