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Wednesday, May 12, 2004
Hamburg AMS Second Round
By Hamburg Masters Official Site
Press Conference with ROGER FEDERER
Federer – Lapentti 6:3, 6:3
Q: Today it wasn’t as much work as it was yesterday.
FEDERER: Yes, more or less so. I just saw the statistics, I didn’t
have to fend off any breakball today. Therefore my service worked well.
Especially the beginning of the games went well and that was important
today, because I knew I would definitely have my chances on his serve.
That worked well today. But I saw during practice that he got better
lately. His back hand and his serve. We practiced for two hours on
Saturday. I was curious how it would go during the match because I lost
during practice.
Q: But overall you were more confident today.
FEDERER: Yes. I tried straight after the first set to make a
difference. I couldn’t do that in the second set against Gaudio. That
mustn’t happen again. I could change that today and I’m very happy with
the way it went today. I could make less mistakes. That is my goal for
tomorrow.
Q: How do you look at it against Gonzalez?
FEDERER: We only played each other once, in Indian Wells. I won
rather easily. But now it’s on clay. That’s different. It’s funny we
only played each other once, because we played the whole juniors
together, I was number 1 and he was number 3 and we never played each
other. Therefore it’s quite exciting to play against someone as young
as me.
Q: What will you have to consider?
FEDERER: His forehand, for sure. That’s his best shot. He takes a
lot of risk and he hits the ball extremely hard. I got to know that in
Indian Wells, but I could break his rhythm there after a while and I
could use my own forehand to win the points. I have to vary my game
well tomorrow, that will be important.
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