Best Quotes from 2012 Australian Open – Day 2
Q: ”Did you find it hard to shake her in some of those close ones?”
Petra Kvitova: “No, I didn’t feel any shakers.”
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Ana Ivanovic: “This morning I was watching the TV. I was watching the tennis. They were saying Lleyton was going to play tonight and he was playing his 16th Australian Open, most ever. I start counting mine. I realize this was my eighth. Then I thought to myself, why would I be nervous? I played so many times.”
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Andy Roddick: “I feel like last year, you know, it was the hardest one I’ve had, you know, physically. And I think, therefore, mentally. It was tough to start and stop. I felt like I was playing out of shape a lot of the time. At the Open, I even played well, but I couldn’t sustain it physically for long enough. It just caught up to me. You know, so I think my days of playing 26 events a year are probably done. But however many I do play, I want to make sure that I’m ready to rock each time.”
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Andy Roddick on the Federer/Nadal “controversy”: “If you guys reported the facts, the issues, it wouldn’t be as exciting as Rafa and Roger. Those guys have been the model of a respectful rivalry in sports. So for it to be represented any differently is unfortunate.”
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Andy Murray on his new coach, Ivan Lendl: “He understands how you might be feeling at the start of a Grand Slam, what it’s like to play against someone that you haven’t played against, what it’s like playing in different conditions, how you feel in really warm conditions. It’s just good to have someone there that, you know, understands all of those things. Someone maybe without the experience might walk in and be like, what the hell were you doing in the first set? What were you playing the first six or seven games?”
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Andy Murray on whether he was disappointed by all the other Brits losing in Round 1: “I’m not the person to be disappointed about that. There are other people in charge that should be disappointed about it; not me. I mean, I’d rather there was more Brits winning, obviously, but it’s not for me to be disappointed.”
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Gael Monfils, on whether Marion Bartoli should be allowed to represent France in the Olympics: “You know, I don’t think I’m the person to ask. I really like Marion and everyone. I mean, I’m just looking NBA and then tennis. Actually I’m so bad. I can’t help you on that.”
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Q: “Are you at peace with the USTA at this point?”
Alex Bogomolov Jr.: “Yes. Big load off my shoulders. Everything is peaceful. Everything is good.”
Q: “Any lingering feelings of having to pay them back?”
Bogomolov: “Everything is perfect.”
Q: You don’t feel it was unfair?
Bogomolov: “No. They invested their time and their finances in me. I think it was only right for me to pay them back.”
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Jarmila Gajdosova: “First thing everybody says how bad my game is. When you play well, oh, you’re unbelievable. Then you have a bad morning, you played real crap today. You can’t win no matter what I do. You believe in something you been doing since you were seven years old, go to 24 in the world, so you would think I achieved something already. And still people question it every single day.”
“If you have these kind of things in your head, it’s not easy. You start questioning the shots before you even hit them, make errors in the end just because you change your mind on what you usually do, what you want to do, to things you shouldn’t hit and you miss it anyway. So then you’re like, oh, I should have swing instead of just try to make the ball because people tell me I make too many unforced errors or I try to hit the cover off the ball.”
