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Roger Federer : Wimbledon 2009 >>> day 8.
A look at Wimbledon on Monday:
Weather: Brief rain, high of 87 degrees.
Roof: The new retractable roof on Centre Court was closed
during play for the first time in tournament history.
Attendance: 44,478, an increase of 3,526 from the second Monday in 2008.
Mens Fourth Round:
No. 2 Roger Federer beat No. 13 Robin Soderling,
No. 3 Andy Murray beat No. 19 Stanislas Wawrinka,
No. 4 Novak Djokovic beat Dudi Sela,
No. 6 Andy Roddick beat No. 20 Tomas Berdych,
No. 22 Ivo Karlovic beat No. 7 Fernando Verdasco,
No. 24 Tommy Haas beat No. 29 Igor Andreev,
Juan Carlos Ferrero beat No. 8 Gilles Simon,
Lleyton Hewitt beat No. 23 Radek Stepanek.
Womens Fourth Round:
No. 1 Dinara Safina beat No. 17 Amelie Mauresmo,
No. 2 Serena Williams beat Daniela Hantuchova,
No. 3 Venus Williams beat No. 13 Ana Ivanovic (retired with an injury while trailing),
No. 4 Elena Dementieva beat Elena Vesnina,
No. 8 Victoria Azarenka beat No. 10 Nadia Petrova,
Sabine Lisicki beat No. 9 Caroline Wozniacki,
No. 11 Agnieszka Radwanska beat Melanie Oudin,
Francesca Schiavone beat No. 26 Virginie Razzano.
Stat of the Day:
10:39 p.m.The time Murrays five-set victory over Wawrinka finished,
more than an hour later than anyone ever had played on Centre Court.
Quote of the Day:
They have a pretty good little weather system forecast thingy down in the magic little office down there.
If you have a roof, I think you use it. Otherwise,
youre waiting around, and whats the roof for?
Roddick, asked whether the Centre Court roof was closed unnecessarily Monday.
On Court Tuesday:
Safina vs. Lisicki, Serena Williams vs. Azarenka,
Venus Williams vs. Radwanska,
Dementieva vs. Schiavone in the womens quarterfinals.
Tuesdays Forecast: Sunny, with a high of 86 degrees.
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In-depth interview with Roger Federer.
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ได้รู้ว่าเฮียคิดยังไงกับ 10 ปีในการเล่นเทนนิสอาชีพของตัวเอง
In-depth interview - Roger Federer
BBC sports UK
I: Roger, hard to believe you've been around for ten years now.
I wonder, you had that period of total domination and now there are three players who really grind with you for that top position.
How does this period of your career compare to that period of domination?
RF: I mean it's definitely a different feeling, you know.
When I was going from one tournament victory to the next, it was pretty stressful, actually,
because I remember I had to get the whole excitement of being the new number one.
Being the one who's being chased, all of a sudden.
Being the one to have to keep up with the expectations.
I tried to stay injury-free, looking for a vacation, looking for preparation. Just looking for enough rest as well between all the wins.
It was a very difficult time for me to take the right decisions, but I think I took many very good decisions.
Umm, I think very few bad decisions, to be quite honest, because I always questioned myself again:
How can I improve? Instead of, maybe, sort of relax and say "You know what, my dream came true.
I won Wimbledon and became the number one in the world. Everything that comes now is just a bonus."
But I saw it as a great challenge and I took the right decisions because, looking back now,
I was, sort of, almost a legend in the game.
Now, I still have so many years to go.
If I look forward, it's a great feeling.
It's actually nice, now, when I come out on court, I actually feel like the spectators really want to see me do well again
after seeing me lose a big and important match like at Wimbledon or the Australian Open.
It's a good feeling. I like the challenge when all the new players are coming up, even though I still miss Sampras, Agrassi and Henman,
you know, all those guys whom I had great rivalries with.
So, yeah, I'm still feeling well and strong.
I feel that I can win the big one.
I'm looking forward to, hopefully, many more years on tour.
I: An awful lot was made of you when you were smashing your racquet last month.
Those of us who have been around more than a few years remember you doing quite a lot of that in your early years,
but that was a little unusual a month-or-so ago.
Have you been worried, at all, about your form?
RF: Well, I mean I wasn't happy.
That's why I smashed the racquet. But It was good to see the reaction.
People say "Oh my God, he smashed a racquet before.
Look, he smashed one again."
It's a different reaction which I'm happy about.
I was able to change my image around, so to speak.
I mean I think I've just had a tough last one and a half year.
It's not making excuses. I'm not that type of person, you know, but I did have the mononucleosis.
I did have that bad back towards the end of the season while I was trying to play my best tennis again
and I won Basel while having a lot of back pain and then going to Paris.
I thought I was playing really well in Madrid, so I was starting to play my best again.
Then, it hit me with a back problem when the season was over.
I started all over again and I actually played well in Australia,
but I ended up losing so tightly against Rafa.
All of a sudden, people start questioning you even though you played a great match.
Maybe they don't give enough credits to Rafa, for some reasons, which is strange.
I think I'm playing well, but I had some bad matches in Indian Wells and Miami against Murray and Djokovic in the semifinals.
But, I think when I play my best, it's still me who controls the matches
and I think that's a good thing because I would be pretty worried if I know that Djokovic
and all those guys are putting me away
and I don't know what to do anymore.
I think the matches are won in my racquet and not theirs and that's a very good thing.
I: A lot of self-belief you obviously have and with good reasons,
but on this surface in particular, Rafa has been so dominant in the last few years.
What makes you think that you can beat him on this surface and ultimately at Roland Garros?
RF: Well, I think the belief is always there.
I fought him so many times.
I don't draw too much out of beating him in the final of Hamburg,
but I really had the feeling that he was playing very very close to his best,
really close to the one in Australia and I still hung with him
even though I wasn't serving that great, for instance.
I know that clay is always a different story and a different animal.
He played really well and he crushed me at last year's French Open final.
For me, it's believing that I can win by playing aggressive,
not playing his style of play which is tough to get out of
because he's such a great shot-maker, great defense and everything.
But, you've got to hope that one day maybe he's not that sharp or he won that much
that he'll start questioning himself how many more times he can do it.
I don't say that had happened to me,
but you can sometimes as a player,
when you dominate so much on a particular surface, like me on grass,
you can go out there and think, you know, how many more can I really do.
The press will keep asking you over and over again
and I think he knows the guys are chasing him
even though he's dominating on clay in an unbelievable way right now.
Honestly, what he has been able to achieve, at his young age, on clay is phenomenal,
but with air - air of challenge
and we'll wait and take every opportunity that comes,
especially at me.
I : Final question.
Unless Novak Djokovic win this title,
(บีบีซีสัมภาษณ์เฟดก่อนรอบชิงชนะเลิศรายการที่โรม)
Andy Murray becomes the first British player ever to be the world's number three.
How big of an achievement would that be?
RF: Well, I mean I think it's nice, you know,
but is there a big different between number three and number four in the world?
I don't think so. At this stage, it's about, maybe,
being number one and number two.
Being the top-seed, the top-dog, you know,
I think that what it's about for Andy.
It's a nice story, of course. He'd deserved it
because I think he had probably the best hard-court season with me and Rafa obviously.
I won the US Open. Rafa won the Australian Open. Murray, unfortunately, didn't win Shanghai.
Djokovic did. He didn't win the big one,
but he was very solid in the Masters Series' play.
If he becomes world's number three, everyone would absolutely agree that he deserves it.
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