2009年01月20日
J. NIEMINEN(MEDIBANK INTERNATIONAL09)
1月17日。SYDNEY、NEW SOUTH WALES。J. NIEMINENがD. NALBANDIANに3-6、7-6、2-6で準優勝。
言い訳:
第一セット
●"I felt I was kind of slow in the beginning. I got slow start and my legs were not moving as fast a usual. Usually I can always trust my fast legs, but today I felt that I was a little bit slower than yesterday."
第二セット
●"I started to move better when I was down 5-3 in the second set."
● "I started to play much better from that on."
●"David was playing with good tempo as well, so that made it even tougher to get into the game. But then finally when I was almost losing the match I got my legs moving and finally won the second set."
第三セット
●"I thought I could get the momentum in the third set as well. I had breakpoint in the first game of the third set and I didn't take it."
●"Then from 1-All, next three games are really tight and I lost them. I won one of them, but still, I couldn't get the momentum again."
●"I just lost those many tight games in the beginning, and then in the end he was better."
●"He was moving better and controlling the game. I felt that I couldn't -- I was just trying to hang in there, but I couldn't control the game anymore. He really deserved to win in the end."
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