Day 5 - Tommy Robredo interview
Friday, May 28, 2004
Q. Very clean game today. No service breaks. You defended your serve
very well today. You've talked about how much stronger your serve is
this year. You have a few comments on how well you served today?
TOMMY ROBREDO: Well, I think it's not the thing of my serve. I think
it's the thing of everything, no? I played a really good match. He
didn't play such a good match and, well, if you get all of these
things, he just make the four serve wins on his serve, no? And I think
it's not a thing of my serve or a thing of anything, just a complete
thing that I played really good, he didn't play that good. Finally I
could beat him real easy, no?
Q. You never want to assume anyone can beat anyone here, but if Carlos
wins his match today, we'll have a fourth match between Robredo and
Moya. Things have not gone well for you against Carlos. Is there a
different way to play him that will get you a different result?
TOMMY ROBREDO: No, well, I think that always I am a little bit closer.
Right now I am playing really good and I feel comfortable on the
court. I hope on Sunday it will be my day, no? Always there is a day
that you have to change your statistics. Why not on Sunday?
Q. With Carlos, is it always a issue of trying to keep him from
dictating play?
TOMMY ROBREDO: Trying to what?
Q. Forcing points, being in control of the points all the time.
TOMMY ROBREDO: Yes, but when he serve. When I serve, I will have the
control. I will try to not lose the control.
Q. Where do you attack Carlos?
TOMMY ROBREDO: I don't know. I think it's easy, no?
THE MODERATOR: Spanish questions, please.
Q. Were you hoping that it would go so well?
TOMMY ROBREDO: Well, I knew I was playing very well, but 6-2, 6-0,
6-2 against Massu, I don't think it was very realistic. I've been
playing very good tennis but I don't think he's been really in his
best shape.
But this is tennis, you have to use all these opportunities. This is
a fourth round, we're playing good tennis and we have to keep rested.
Q. After the fourth game in the first set, you were both playing
quite well and then all of a sudden you were imposing your rhythm,
and that is when it started making a difference, and you were playing
much better and he was playing not such good tennis as we've seen him
play.
TOMMY ROBREDO: Well, until we reached that point, 2-all, I think we
were just watching each other and seeing how we were playing. We had
one game where he didn't do what he had to do, and then I realized
very quickly that I had to attack more because I wasn't doing much in
this match. And I thought that if I attacked more I would perhaps
dictate the match. So I started hitting the ball harder, and Nicolas
was not able to resist. After that, it was 14 games in succession.
From that point on, the match was decided. It was all a matter of time.
It was two, three more games just to finish the match, but I really
had the match practically won by then.
Q. Does this give you a lot of confidence? You've reached the fourth
round, and you reached the quarterfinals last year perhaps without
this much confidence? Does that make a difference?
TOMMY ROBREDO: Well, I do have more confidence in my game. I'm
attacking more. I think I'm a better player than I was last year,
because after the first round, I really had a difficult match against
Lapentti, and after that I started playing really well. After the
match against Hewitt, which I thought I was going to lose in, then I
came back, and when this kind of thing happens to you in a match,
you increase your confidence.
The match I played against Hewitt was a very good match. This year's
a bit different because I've been increasing my confidence for some
time, I've been playing very good tennis and now I feel at ease with
my tennis.
Last year I came here but I wasn't at the right level. I knew this.
In this tournament last year I was playing over my usual level
because I really wanted to, because I had more confidence in my game,
and after this match with Hewitt in particular, and now I think I
have improved my level overall and I'm playing better.
So in the same conditions as last year, as I've demonstrated today,
though Massu didn't put up much resistance, I think my tennis was
completely in hand. I think that even at 100 percent, maybe he
wouldn't have won this match.
Q. So perhaps it's a pity you'll have to play Carlos?
TOMMY ROBREDO: Well, I don't know. Two players who could go further,
but that's tennis. First, second round, you have two Spaniards
playing each other, that's a pity. But we're further in the
tournament now, and I have to keep playing as I've been playing up
to today. After this result, it's all a matter of seeing how the
match goes.
For the moment I'm very happy with my level, with my tennis. If I
continue to play this way, whether I win or lose, it will not be
important because the important thing is I'm playing good tennis.
Q. Do you think that this was a perfect match and nobody could say
otherwise, but do you think that Massu had perhaps a difficulty that
he couldn't overcome?
TOMMY ROBREDO: Well, you should ask him that question. But it's quite
clear that he hasn't put up much resistance. Sometimes it looked as
though he was trying to fight, and other moments he was not fighting
so much or perhaps against himself. I think that also the pressure of
being closer to the Top 10 is a very heavy pressure to bear.
This is tennis. Some people have an objective, they set their own
objectives, and then they reach it or they don't. Other people try
to reach their objectives, and are not able to do so, but that's what
tennis is like.
I think that all of this is having an effect on him, but I just went
on court and played my match as I wanted to, I played it as best I
could. And the fact that he wasn't in top shape, well, you get the
result that you got today.
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