Pictures from round 2
Pic 1: Serve (FFT)
Pic 2: Waiting (FFT)
Pic 3: Slide (FFT)
Pic 4: Backhand (Reuters)
Pic 5: Return (AP)
Pic 6: Kiss (BBC)
Pic 7: Kiss #2 (Getty Images)
small pic
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Interview Day 4 - Juan Carlos Ferrero
JC def N. Massu 6-2, 3-0 [ret. ankle]
Q. An easy day for you, relatively anyway. You thought he would be a very tough opponent, but he has the injury. What are you thinking? You get an extra day's rest.
JUAN CARLOS FERRERO: I think it's very bad luck for him, but good luck for me because it's one less match, one easy match for me. Third round, playing only four sets; three in the first match, two in the second. You know, I think was great for me today.
Q. How are you specifically a better player today than you were during the French Open final a year ago?
JUAN CARLOS FERRERO: Today? In the final, I had a lot of problems, you know, shoulder, abductors, my ankle. Today I was physically very good. I mean in tennis, there in the final, I was playing so good. Today I'm playing so good, as well. The difference was physically, only physically.
Q. Technically are you the same player?
JUAN CARLOS FERRERO: I improving my serve. I improve a lot with my serve. I think I have more experience in the court in difficult moment, in special moments. I think it's very important.
Q. Are there players that you sometimes think, "That's the guy I want to play," big match at a Grand Slam? If so, who would that player be?
JUAN CARLOS FERRERO: Agassi is one of these. I think Kuerten is also a guy that I want to beat in clay court. Maybe here because always he won me here in semifinals. I think these two players are the guys I want to beat.
Q. Is it because you want to see how your game matches up against one of the greats?
JUAN CARLOS FERRERO: I know how is my game against that people because I played a lot of times against them. I don't have to play against to see how is my game.
Q. Do you consider a player like Coria as a big challenge this year?
JUAN CARLOS FERRERO: Yeah. He's playing so good. I played against him in Monte-Carlo. He did the final. He won Hamburg. He's in a great form right now. I think he's going to stay in the Top 10 for a long time. He plays good in all surface.
Q. It will either be Tim Henman or Todd Martin, two very experienced players in the next round.
JUAN CARLOS FERRERO: Yeah.
Q. Size them up for us.
JUAN CARLOS FERRERO: It doesn't matter for me, you know. Tim, I think he improve a lot in clay court. Todd Martin, there is the guy that has a lot of experience here or anywhere. So is going to be a tough match today against both players.
MODERATOR: Questions in Spanish, please.
Q. (In Portuguese.)
JUAN CARLOS FERRERO: To play in the second court is all right, there's nothing wrong with it. But I think many people were not able to see this match. I didn't really realize until the end there were many people outside who could not get in. It would have been in it had it been in a bigger court.
The only thing I am sorry about is that all the fans were not able to see the match.
Q. Today was a free advance in the tournament.
JUAN CARLOS FERRERO: Yes, it was.
Pic 1: Serve (FFT)
Pic 2: Waiting (FFT)
Pic 3: Slide (FFT)
Pic 4: Backhand (Reuters)
Pic 5: Return (AP)
Pic 6: Kiss (BBC)
Pic 7: Kiss #2 (Getty Images)
small pic
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Interview Day 4 - Juan Carlos Ferrero
JC def N. Massu 6-2, 3-0 [ret. ankle]
Q. An easy day for you, relatively anyway. You thought he would be a very tough opponent, but he has the injury. What are you thinking? You get an extra day's rest.
JUAN CARLOS FERRERO: I think it's very bad luck for him, but good luck for me because it's one less match, one easy match for me. Third round, playing only four sets; three in the first match, two in the second. You know, I think was great for me today.
Q. How are you specifically a better player today than you were during the French Open final a year ago?
JUAN CARLOS FERRERO: Today? In the final, I had a lot of problems, you know, shoulder, abductors, my ankle. Today I was physically very good. I mean in tennis, there in the final, I was playing so good. Today I'm playing so good, as well. The difference was physically, only physically.
Q. Technically are you the same player?
JUAN CARLOS FERRERO: I improving my serve. I improve a lot with my serve. I think I have more experience in the court in difficult moment, in special moments. I think it's very important.
Q. Are there players that you sometimes think, "That's the guy I want to play," big match at a Grand Slam? If so, who would that player be?
JUAN CARLOS FERRERO: Agassi is one of these. I think Kuerten is also a guy that I want to beat in clay court. Maybe here because always he won me here in semifinals. I think these two players are the guys I want to beat.
Q. Is it because you want to see how your game matches up against one of the greats?
JUAN CARLOS FERRERO: I know how is my game against that people because I played a lot of times against them. I don't have to play against to see how is my game.
Q. Do you consider a player like Coria as a big challenge this year?
JUAN CARLOS FERRERO: Yeah. He's playing so good. I played against him in Monte-Carlo. He did the final. He won Hamburg. He's in a great form right now. I think he's going to stay in the Top 10 for a long time. He plays good in all surface.
Q. It will either be Tim Henman or Todd Martin, two very experienced players in the next round.
JUAN CARLOS FERRERO: Yeah.
Q. Size them up for us.
JUAN CARLOS FERRERO: It doesn't matter for me, you know. Tim, I think he improve a lot in clay court. Todd Martin, there is the guy that has a lot of experience here or anywhere. So is going to be a tough match today against both players.
MODERATOR: Questions in Spanish, please.
Q. (In Portuguese.)
JUAN CARLOS FERRERO: To play in the second court is all right, there's nothing wrong with it. But I think many people were not able to see this match. I didn't really realize until the end there were many people outside who could not get in. It would have been in it had it been in a bigger court.
The only thing I am sorry about is that all the fans were not able to see the match.
Q. Today was a free advance in the tournament.
JUAN CARLOS FERRERO: Yes, it was.
