Associated Press, 12/16/2002 03:21
Sunday
At The Tennis Center at Crandon Park
Key Biscayne, Fla.
青少年十八歲組單打決賽
Brian Baker (3), Nashville, Tenn.,
def.
Mathieu Montcourt (4), France,
7-6 (5), 6-3.
來自ITF的報導
“My strategy was to be patient. Hit it deep.
Keep him back there and finally wait for the
ball that I could attack and then attack and
come in,” said Baker, who won his third
international junior title this year and fifth
overall. “He has a different style of game
that I don’t see too often, so he gave me a
lot of trouble at the beginning, but I sort
of figured it out by the second set.”
After exchanging breaks of serve in the first
two games of the match, both players held serve
for the remainder of the set forcing a tiebreak.
Montcourt attacked the net early in the first
set tiebreak and won three straight points to
take a 4-2 lead. Baker responded by pressuring
Montcourt from the backhand side to win five of
the next six points and closed out the set with
a service winner.
“I was very close to winning the set,” said
Montcourt, who fell to 0-4 in ITF finals. “If
I had won the tiebreak, I would have had a good
chance to win because he played two very tough
matches (in the quarterfinals and semifinals).
I haven’t won an ITF tournament and I have
played in three or four finals. I get this in
my head and at the beginning I was very stressed.”
(悲情亞軍 真慘)
Baker adds his name to a list of Orange Bowl
boys’ 18s champions that includes Roddick,
Roger Federer (1998), Jim Courier (1987),
Guy Forget (1982), Ivan Lendl (1977) and John
McEnroe (1976). He has made his decision about
turning professional right away or attending
college before heading for the tour.
“It feels good right now but I still have to
prove myself,” said Baker. “It’s good. I hadn’t
necessarily done as well as I thought I could have
at the slams this year. I was hurt at a couple of
them and didn’t play well at the other two. It is
very exciting for me to do well here. I’m very
happy.”
This year, Baker lost in the first round of the
French Open and Wimbledon and reached the third
round at the Australian and US Open boys’ events.
He reached the boys’ doubles final at Wimbledon
and the US Open with different partners.
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Nicolas Escude, Musketeer modern.
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