Thursday, September 4, 2003
http://www.usopen.org/en_US/news/interviews/2003-09-04/200309041062726388518.html
Q. Very clearly, after beating RogerFederer five times in a row, there's
something about his game that you like, that makes you play well. What is it?
DAVID NALBANDIAN: Maybe everything. I don't know. I think I play good
today. I don't know exactly why I like it, but I think my return is
good. I don't care about his serve and volley or whatever. I try to
press in the second serve, and then try to play more on the backhand, so...
But I like his game. But I don't know exactly why.
Q. Could it be you retrieve the ball so well, you get to so many balls,
it makes him press, take a little more risk?
DAVID NALBANDIAN: Yeah, it was tough match . Some points was very
difficult, on the lines.
But I think the match was change after the second set when I was 5-0 and
then I play very good in the tiebreak. And then I think the game change
and started on the third set.
Q. What do you tell yourself in the tiebreaker after you go up 5-all, he
wins the next game, then you have the tiebreaker?
DAVID NALBANDIAN: I have to win. That's the most important thing. Always
you have to try to think about win. So I don't care if it was 5-0, and
then I was playing the tiebreak. I had to try to won the set. So you
have to keep focus.
Q. You go into a match against him, do you have this confidence because
of the past, that you think you can beat him because of what you've done
before?
DAVID NALBANDIAN: Well, you never know. He's a very good player. But I
know him five years ago, six years ago, when we was Juniors. I think I
know him. He know me. I like play against him. But you never know what's
gonna happen in the match.
But I think I always play good against him, so I like.
Q. What do you remember from the Juniors when you played him? What do you
remember from that match?
DAVID NALBANDIAN: Which one? I don't know.
Q. The final.
DAVID NALBANDIAN: Final here at the US Open?
Q. Yeah.
DAVID NALBANDIAN: I remember exactly the score, I think it was 7-5, 6-3
or something like that. It's almost the same like every match is now. So
he was serving so good and I return so good. It was almost the same things.
Q. So all your matches have been very similar?
DAVID NALBANDIAN: Yeah, yep.
Q. Do you think that when he looks at you when he's playing and he sees
you, maybe in his mind he's thinking...
DAVID NALBANDIAN: Maybe he dreams a little bit (smiling).
Q. It's not good dreams.
DAVID NALBANDIAN: I don't know. Ask him.
Q. Even after reaching the final at Wimbledon, do you feel like you have
not received the sort of world-wide respect for your game that you're due?
DAVID NALBANDIAN: I don't know. I been the Wimbledon finals and the
champion of this year. So I always think I can beat everybody, every
court, whatever.
But, you never know. You enter in the court and then everything is
completely difference from what you are thinking in the locker room, so...
(This is a partial transcript)
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