NOVAK DJOKOVIC June 05 2012

N. DJOKOVIC/J. Tsonga 6‑1, 5‑7, 5‑7, 7‑6, 6‑1

NOVAK DJOKOVIC

 

Q.  It has been confirmed that you are going to do an exhibition match in Brazil in November.  Are you excited about it?  Have you ever come to Brazil?  Would you like if the opponent could be Guga?

NOVAK DJOKOVIC:  Well, yes, it’s the first time now that I talk about it.  It’s confirmed.  I’m really excited because I never been in Brazil.

I heard all the best things about your country.  Of course, Guga is the biggest tennis legend there.  I would like to play with him.  It’s still not decided.  Even if I play with Thomaz will be great.

Just the experience of being in Brazil makes me very happy.

JO‑WILFRIED TSONGA June 05 2012

N. DJOKOVIC/J. Tsonga 6‑1, 5‑7, 5‑7, 7‑6, 6‑1

 

JO‑WILFRIED TSONGA

 

 

Q.  What’s in your mind?  I guess you’re very disappointed.

JO‑WILFRIED TSONGA:  Well, I’m disappointed.  I am disappointed.  But now it’s over.  Nothing I can do.  I can’t play the match again, so I’m eliminated.

It’s a bit of a shame because I was pretty close.  I’m not going to regret many things in that match.  I gave everything I had.  I fought as much as I could.

Unfortunately at the end I had no energy left in my legs.  That’s it.  That’s the way it is.  I’ll have to close that chapter and start practicing on grass.

I’ll try and remember this match and this loss so I have more confidence in tournaments like Wimbledon.  Because if I can hurt top players on clay, I can do worse on grass.

ROGER FEDERER June 05 2012

R. FEDERER/J. Del Potro 3‑6, 6‑7, 6‑2, 6‑0, 6‑3

 

ROGER FEDERER

 

 

Q.  In the first two sets especially, I mean, it looked as if Del Potro’s resistance to your groundstroke rhythm had improved and he was playing much better than before in the groundstrokes.  Then in the rest of the match you suddenly seemed to take over.  What made the difference between the start and the end of the match?

ROGER FEDERER:  Well, I mean, comparing to this year’s matches, it’s obviously the first one on clay.  Conditions are slow, particularly on clay.  That makes it hard for a lot of variation.  You don’t get any free points on the serve.

Anything that’s maybe short rallies and chips and down the line shots, it’s a better match for me.  He obviously like to go back into backhand and then rip the forehand once he gets the chance.

I thought it was very good conditions for him.  I knew it was going to be tough anyway.  I have still been struggling to find my rhythm.  I did feel it in the first set, even though he was up two sets ‑‑ two breaks.  I was finding a way back and starting to feel better.

Just trying to figure out how to play a guy who returns from so far back on a slow court.  Do you try to serve through him?  Which I tried; didn’t work.  Or do I try and move it around a bit.  And that worked a bit better, but it was really in the mix‑up that, you know, I found success.

Second set was a tough, you know, set for me to lose, but he played a really good breaker and got the better of me.  But I was happy that the first two sets took some time, because I did favor myself once the match got longer.  That’s kind of how it came.

So I’m very happy with the way I fought and started in the third set, fourth set, and even in the fifth set where obviously it was the toughest, because that was his last chance and his resistance maybe was the biggest there.

JUAN MARTIN DEL POTRO June 05 2012

R. FEDERER/J. Del Potro    3‑6, 6‑7, 6‑2, 6‑0, 6‑3

 

 

JUAN MARTIN DEL POTRO

 

 

Q.  Just talk about the match.  You got off to the great start, played the good tiebreak, and then looks like the knee started hurting, but then in the fifth set it looks like you moved better.  Can you just take me through it.

JUAN MARTIN DEL POTRO:  No, I think anyways I play a great match, even the third and fourth set.  He start to play much better than in the beginning of the match and I feel his ball more in the baseline.  He put me to run a lot in the third and fourth set.

He made better match than me after the second set.  I don’t have any chance to win until the first game in the fifth set when I had break point.  He play well points and he take the opportunity in the fifth set and he win.

SAMANTHA STOSUR June 05 2012

S. STOSUR/D. Cibulkova 6‑4, 6‑1

 

SAMANTHA STOSUR

 

Q.  That was a really commanding performance.  What do you put that down to?  Just preparation or the way you were feeling when you walked out there?

SAMANTHA STOSUR:  Well, I think everything that you do helps end up helping the way that you go out there to play.

Yeah, I woke up feeling good this morning and had a good warmup.  I guess that just kind of transferred onto the match court and really did what I wanted to do quite well.

So, yeah, very pleased.

DOMINIKA CIBULKOVA June 05 2012

S. STOSUR/D. Cibulkova 6‑4, 6‑1

 

DOMINIKA CIBULKOVA

 

 

Q.  It was a very tight first set.  Got a little tougher in the second.  Was there a big switch around when you lost that first set?

DOMINIKA CIBULKOVA:  Actually, I just started to play much better in the end of the first set, and then I was 1‑0 up and 40‑Love on her serve.  But, I mean, I have to say that she played unbelievable today.

You know, her topspin and her serve, I mean, she played like a man, and it’s really hard to play against a man.  It was driving me crazy on the court today.  So it was really, really hard.  Really tough.

ANGELIQUE KERBER

S. ERRANI/A. Kerber 6‑3, 7‑6

 

ANGELIQUE KERBER

 

Q.  How can you explain what happened?  I mean, do you think that she was leading more the game than you, or not?  Why in the first set there was only practically no breaks to her and in the second set everything changed?  I mean, there were eight breaks out of ten, I think.

ANGELIQUE KERBER:  Yeah, this I don’t know.  But it was a tough match.  She was playing from the first point very well.  I mean, I was trying to find my game and try, yeah, to fight back.

In the second set I think I played better than in the first set, but she played better in the important points and was more aggressive than me.

SARA ERRANI June 05 2012

S. ERRANI/A. Kerber 6‑3, 7‑6

 

SARA ERRANI

 

Q.  Could you just explain.  You have had a real great season.  What’s your rapid improvement down to?  Why?

SARA ERRANI:  I don’t know why exactly.  I just see other times also that.  A big change for me really was the racquet.  Was a big change that make me feel much better in the court.  Make me feel with more power and not too difference with other players on power and these things.

But also physically I worked very good this winter.  But I’ve worked also very good the other winters, so is not a change.  Is just work every day harder that I can and physically in tennis, so maybe the big thing is mix of everything.