Mr. Tennis

↑winner-世界球王-Roger Federer (瑞典)
五盤-> 6-4,6-0,3-6,4-6,6-2


↑不知道哪來的德國對手-Tommy Haas


續-2006澳洲網球公開賽-16進8強比賽
晚上又轉到一場比賽，也是從第三盤開始
沒想到是世界球王的比賽啊
前兩盤他都贏了 其中第二盤還是6:0贏的ㄝ 真強~
不過從第三盤之後他就失誤連連 真是緊張
這場比賽中失誤超過50次了
中途發球還打到球童 引來眾人大笑
主播還說感覺他今天怪怪悶悶的 不知道是不是水土不服
= ="ㄜ~ 猜測還真多ㄝ
後來就這樣一直被對手追成平手
剩下最後一盤了 因為我姐堅持要看聊齋
= ="所以就沒看到
不過廣告我還是會轉一下
本來以為Federer輸了
可是跑來網路上看新聞才知道
原來贏了啊~~~ 真是好險ㄝ~
不過下一場8強進4強的比賽
是要和早上看的那個Nikolay Davydenko 比ㄝ
要看要看~~~~~
難得這兩人的比賽我都看過都支持 哈哈
密切注意!!!


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Roger Federer's Interview

R. FEDERER/T. Haas

6‑4, 6‑0, 3‑6, 4‑6, 6‑2

Q. Was that closer than you would have liked?

ROGER FEDERER: Well, after the start, yes. But in the end, doesn't matter, does it? No, I'm happy the way I played tonight. Like I explained on the court, you know, I thought first two sets was perfect tennis, and after that I think he played really good. I never really got a chance, you know, except early in the third. I think if I get a break there, obviously the match could be over in no time.

A pity I couldn't close it out in three, but I'm happy the way I played in the end, and that was a good feeling to have.

Q. How nerve‑wracking was it when he came back?

ROGER FEDERER: Well, I was never really too nervous, to be honest. I just tried to focus on my own service games, you know, because he was the guy who had to react and do the whole work, you know. So I was up two‑sets‑to‑love so I was never really close of losing this match. I mean, he would need 25 points in a row in the end, so that's still a long way to go.

I just thought, you know, if I can get one break, that would totally change the match and change the momentum. That's exactly what I got in the fifth set.

Q. You were hitting the ball really crisply, then started to have so many miss‑hits. What do you attribute that to?

ROGER FEDERER: Well, his game really. I mean, he changed things up a little bit, you know. Well, he had to. I guess, you know, like I said, momentum shifted. And I was then just struggling a little bit from the baseline, you know, because once you lose to ‑‑ start to lose those points, you know, in the long rallies from the baseline against him, it makes it tough. He was hitting the ball better. I was just a guy who was been missing earlier than he was. That was the opposite in the first two sets.

It was a pity especially after the great set, the second set I played to again lose a third set. But, again, it's okay. I'm really happy to have also won a five‑setter again after I think quite some time. So this has really given me confidence.

Q. Do you perceive it as part of the building process to winning a Grand Slam title, or is there a bit of an escape tonight?

ROGER FEDERER: No, I wouldn't call it an escape tonight. Like I said, I thought I was pretty much in control of the match. But, you know, I haven't had too many five‑setters, you know, in the last couple of years. Makes it ‑‑ it's a different atmosphere with the crowd, you know, getting into it in the fifth set and stuff. It's not something I'm really used to. This is maybe why I'm so happy tonight.

Q. You had a little bit of a shot after the match at some analysis of your recent dominance of the game. Are you glad that you got that off your chest? You're happy you had a close game. We're happy you had a close game.

ROGER FEDERER: Everybody's happy, yeah. It is a little bit like this. You guys struggling to find good questions, you know, when I'm winning my matches straight sets, you know. It's all about, How about that shot, this shot, so on and so on. I'm happy to answer questions about fighting, too, physically being tough and being nervous and stuff. That's okay to for me for a change, too. But in the end, doesn't ‑‑ this is not the match here. The match is out on the court, and this is what matters.

Q. You happy you got it off your chest?

ROGER FEDERER: No, I wish it would have been straight sets anyhow (smiling).

Q. What about your next opponent? Your thoughts on him?

ROGER FEDERER: Yeah, we've played on several occasions. I think I've never lost against him. We've had some tough matches, though, in the past. He's definitely on a high right now. He's got some ‑‑ played good in Shanghai, played good at the end of the season, especially at the French Open, too. So I think that will be a tough match, especially with five sets. I don't think he'll have a problem bouncing back from the match today against Hrbaty.

I expect a tough match, tough baseline rallies. I'm the guy who's got to dictate and play my game, obviously. I'm not really too worried about the match because I feel like I'm playing really well. I guess if I can play good tennis, I'm looking good. But, again, it's a tough opponent coming up, so it's not going to get any easier.

Q. Do you have a preference, if you have a five‑set match, here we are at 1:15 in the morning, does it make it that much more difficult than if it were a five‑set match in the middle of the day?

ROGER FEDERER: Well, obviously, depends the heat. Obviously takes more out of you, the humidity I think than this heat here where it's rather dry.

But then again, you know, the match was pretty short for a five‑setter because of the 6‑Love set and so on. We never went to tiebreak or anything. It was a quick five‑setter I call this.

But, again, the rhythm is totally different when you finish at 1:30 in the morning. I hope I play late again, you know, the following match so I can keep that rhythm of, you know, going to bed late and then obviously sleeping in. So we'll see about that.

Q. You don't even seem in a hurry. You're signing autographs, I notice.

ROGER FEDERER: Well, three autographs (smiling). I'm also cutting them down a little bit. So let's hurry up here, okay. We all got to go to bed and sleep.

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Fed Ready To Step It Up
by Jordan Chong
Monday, 23 January, 2006


World No.1 Roger Federer usually plays tennis at such a level that his opponents can sometimes only wish that they catch him on an off day.
But in an ominous sign for any contenders to the title, the Swiss master believes his form at Australian Open 2006 is 'the same, if not better' than during his unsuccessful attempt at back-to-back titles 12 months ago.
Federer cruised into the fourth-round with a 6-3 6-4 6-3 win over Max Mirnyi on Day Six, producing some brilliant passing shots and returns of serve against the big-serving Belarussian.
"I think I really played good, especially mentally I thought it was a good performance because you don't get many opportunities, and when you get them you have to take them, and that's what I did," Federer said after the match.
Against Mirnyi, the Swiss champion hit 48 winners and committed just 10 unforced errors.
Asked if he felt unbeatable, Federer replied 'no, not really' but said his confidence does grow significantly once he takes the lead in a match.
"Maybe once I'm up two-sets-to-love, (I) sort of get that feeling that it's going to be hard that some stuff will go wrong," Federer said. "I get moments in the course of the match where I feel unbeatable, but not from the start, that's for sure."
"But, again, I've lost matches being up two-sets-to-love, too. They maybe sometimes hurt you the most because you should have won the match."
He also acknowledged that complacency could be his biggest barrier to the title, given the absence of players such as Marat Safin and Andre Agassi, and the departures of Lleyton Hewitt and Andy Roddick.
"I think the danger is the long tournament, tough conditions, the five-setters," Federer said. "Dangerous players are always around in a draw like this. I cannot take anybody lightly. I've got to focus on playing well and keeping playing good tennis."
"So far I've been able to do that. Obviously, I agree with (the question), it looks like it's going to be a walk in the park, but it's definitely not going to be that."
"Players change, they adapt, they try other things. Like this match tonight, I thought that was a dangerous match. I got through it quite comfortably. I hope I can keep it up."
Federer said he is looking forward to his upcoming clash with in-form German Tommy Haas, the man who beat him at an exhibition tournament at Kooyong before Australian Open 2006.
"I've had some difficulties with him in the past. I already played him twice this year," Federer said, referring to Doha where he beat Haas 6-3 6-3 in the semi-finals.
"I'm looking toward to that match because that's going to be a different match. Finally get some baseline rallies going."
The pair was also involved in a tight fourth-round encounter at Australian Open 2002, where it was Haas who prevailed, winning the fifth-set 8-6 after Federer had held match point.
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Haas Almost Derails Fed Express
by Paul Gough
Monday, 23 January, 2006


World No.1 Roger Federer has been pushed all the way by unseeded German Tommy Haas on Day Nine at Australian Open 2006, but the No.1 seed survived his strongest test yet at the tournament on the way to booking his place in the quarter-finals.

Making his second successive evening appearance at Rod Laver Arena, Federer looked set for another early finish when he took the first two sets, but dual Melbourne Park semi-finalist Haas refused to lie down and fought back to force the match to five sets.


Unlike 12 months ago when he was knocked out in a marathon match in the semis by eventual champion Marat Safin, Federer wrested back control when it mattered to prevail 6-4 6-0 3-6 4-6 6-2, the victory giving him revenge against Haas on two counts.

Haas beat Federer the last time the pair met at a Grand Slam in 2002, prevailing 8-6 in the fifth set of their round of 16 clash on his way to the semi-finals, and he also won when they did battle at the exhibition Kooyong Classic nearly two weeks ago.

Federer cracked 66 winners and committed 58 unforced errors to 31 and 36 from Haas, but the 24-year-old lifted when required with 18 winners to six unforced errors in the final set as he wrapped up the match in 2 hours and 58 minutes.

Federer's victory came after his fellow seeds Nikolay Davydenko, Nicolas Kiefer and Sebastien Grosjean had won through earlier in the day.

Davydenko ended the gruelling campaign of tennis ironman Dominik Hrbaty, the physical toll of winning three successive five-set matches finally catching up with the No.12 seed as he squandered a two-sets-to-love lead on Rod Laver Arena.

The Slovakian narrowly failed to become the first man to ever win four successive five-set matches at a Grand Slam event as the Russian No.5 seed won 4-6 4-6 6-4 6-2 6-3 to set up a meeting with Federer.

German No.21 seed Kiefer ousted Lleyton Hewitt's Argentine conqueror Juan Ignacio Chela 7-6 (7/4) 6-3 6-3 and will now play French No.25 seed Sebastien Grosjean - a semi-finalist here in 2001 - who thrashed countryman Paul-Henri Mathieu 7-5 6-2 6-2.

Having had no trouble easing through to the round of 16 with earlier victories over Uzbekistani Denis Istomin, German Florian Mayer and Belarussian Max Mirnyi, Federer was on track for another demolition job.

After saving two break points in the second game Federer broke in the fifth game of the match on the way to taking the opening set, and then sizzled through the second set in just 28 minutes as Haas failed to win a single game.

With Federer seemingly on the way to the easiest of victories, Haas surprised by breaking in the sixth game of the third set en route to a 5-2 lead, and hit back further when he broke again in the third game of the fourth set.


But after squandering the chance to break with the score at 15-40 when Haas served in the fourth game, a long forehand from Haas gave Federer the break he needed in the sixth game and he didn't waste it as he raced away.

"This is a good match here for me to win in five sets on Rod Laver Arena. I have had a few heartbreaks here," Federer said. "I tried to break his momentum, and all I needed was a break. And Tommy made that difficult for me."

"I like to be pushed like this because the media people get on my nerves. They keep asking me wouldn't it be good if you lost a set, wouldn't it be good if you have a tough one. It's all crap man. I'm happy I've had a tough one and I'm still in the tournament."


Earlier, the Hrbaty-Davydenko match enthralled another packed crowd on Rod Laver Arena as fans wondered whether Hrbaty's amazing Australian Open 2006 campaign could continue.

The durable Slovakian, who has now played in 37 consecutive Grand Slam events (the longest current streak), had spent a total of 10 hours, 27 minutes on court in winning his first three matches against Oliver Marach, Dick Norman and Igor Andreev respectively.

But when he cruised through the first two sets against Davydenko, it looked as if Hrbaty would finally have an easy passage through to the next round.

However all that changed when Davydenko, aiming to reach his second successive Australian Open quarter-final, easily won the next two sets.

Suddenly the 28-year-old, who admits he runs for fun and who some day wants to run in the New York City marathon, found himself in yet another five-set battle.

The only man ever to win four consecutive five-set matches in the Open Era was Goran Ivanisevic at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics but the feat has never been achieved at Grand Slam level.

Indeed only Jan Kodes (1974 Wimbledon), Eliot Teltscher (1979 French Open), Felix Mantilla (2003 Australian Open) and Robby Ginepri (2005 US Open) had previously played four five-setters in a row at a Grand Slam event but all had lost in the fourth match.

But when Hrbaty broke Davydenko in the opening game of the fifth set, it appeared the Slovakian was on course to create history.

However, Davydenko broke straight back in the next game and when he produced a great backhand lob in the sixth game, he had another break point on Hrbaty's serve which he converted to go 4-2 up.

Both players then held serve and it looked like Hrbaty would break back when he had Davydenko 0-40 on serve as the Russian served for the match in the ninth game.

However despite a nervy smash at 15-40 which clipped the tape only to land in, Davydenko recovered and finished the match off with an ace.

Hrbaty admitted his tough Australian Open 2006 campaign had taken a toll on him physically during the clash with Davydenko.

"He was more fresh," Hrbaty said of the Russian. "I think you could see after the third set he was one step ahead of me. I was trying but I didn't have enough power to run for all the balls."

It was only the second time Davydenko had recovered from two sets down to win a match and he now has the chance to equal his previous best Grand Slam performance when he reached the semi-finals at last year's French Open.

Kiefer, meanwhile, notched up his 300th career win and his 50th at a Grand Slam event to continue the remarkable transformation in his fortunes after an injury-marred build-up to the Australian Open when he retired in the semi-final at Kooyong against Andy Roddick due to an ankle injury.

The 28-year-old German has also put aside his poor recent form at Melbourne Park to sweep into the last eight here for the first time since 2000, having bowed out in the first-round in his three previous visits here prior to this year.

In fact it is the first time Kiefer has reached the quarter-finals of a Grand Slam event since the 2000 US Open.

The stunning turnaround has delighted Kiefer, who admits he can still improve.

"I would say I am still far away from my best," he said. "But I'm happy with the way I'm playing at the moment. I still see that many things can happen and anything is possible."

Grosjean overcame a slow start and a poor first serve percentage to reach the quarter-finals at Melbourne Park for the fourth time.

Despite a first serve percentage of just 43 for the match, Grosjean still served 12 aces and such was his dominance on serve that when he did manage to get his first serve into play, he lost just two points for the entire match in winning a staggering 94 per cent of such points or 29-of-31 for the match.

澳網 公開賽- http://www.australianopen.com/en_AU/index.html
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澳洲網球公開賽》哈斯刺費王　五盤空遺恨
【麗台運動報 】
李弘斌／綜合報導
在月初的Kooyong網球邀請賽，德國名將哈斯（Tommy Haas）爆冷完成「刺殺費天王」的任務，23日在墨爾本公園的中央球場，他又差點完成「不可能的任務」。面對第一種子費德勒（Roger Federer），哈斯先丟兩盤再追兩盤，讓費天王嚇出一身冷汗，末盤才以2比6讓出勝利。
費德勒以6比4拔得頭籌，僅僅花了35分鐘，第二盤更把哈斯剃了個大光頭，未料哈斯韌性十足，「費天王」則有點心神不寧，頻頻失誤，「天王」威名差點付諸東流。「贏一場五盤大戰對我來說很好，」費德勒賽後驚魂甫定的說：「我需要這樣的刺激，很高興我遇到了一個好對手，而且我也沒有出局。」
哈斯在盤數0比2落後的絕對劣勢下，以6比3與6比4連趕兩盤，決勝盤本有機會一鼓作氣。可惜他在第六局發生一次致命的截擊失誤，被費德勒破發成功，蓄積的氣勢也一洩千里，下一個發球局再拱手讓出，沒能再度扮演「刺客」。
「風水輪流轉，前兩盤我打得很棒，後兩盤換他發揮超水準，」費德勒賽後表示，他知道發球是自己的最大武器，當哈斯氣勢正旺時不要去硬碰硬，在稍微休養生息、養精蓄銳之後，氣勢終究會回到他這邊。
費德勒在球場上以冷靜著稱，但此役哈斯奮不顧身屢救險球，似乎也打亂了天王的步伐。費德勒前兩盤僅有17次非受迫性失誤，後兩盤卻暴增一倍達到35次。全場比賽費德勒的愛司（10比5）與致勝球（66比31）雖然佔有絕對優勢，卻比哈斯多發生22次失誤，使他陷入苦戰。
費德勒將在8強遭遇大會第五種子達維丹科（Nikolay Davydenko）
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澳洲公開賽，球王費德勒險翻船
【中廣新聞網 】
大滿貫澳洲網球公開賽，男子單打八強賽的最後一場，安排球王「費德勒」出戰德國的「哈斯」，沒想到費德勒卻在二比零領先時出狀況，被哈斯連追兩盤，幸好球王及時回過神來，第五盤以六比二獲勝，花了三小時晉級八強。（陳楷報導）
費德勒前兩盤只花了一個鐘頭就以六比四、六比零取得二盤的領先，但是第三盤第六局哈斯連得四分，第一次破了費德勒的發球局，哈斯連拿四局以六比三獲勝，也是球王在這屆澳網第一次丟掉一盤，第四盤費德勒離譜的非受迫性失誤高達２１次，四比六被哈斯追平進入決勝盤，哈斯在網前跟底線拼盡全力，第五盤第四局面對兩個破發點，哈斯還是冷靜救下來，但第六局就沒有這個好運氣，３０比３０平手時費德勒接發球，用單手反拍打到令人難以置信的對角取得破發點，之後哈斯一個正手拍對角攻擊又出界，費德勒破發取得四比二的領先，最後以六比二拿下勝利。比起去年四小時半跟沙芬的的五盤馬拉松賽事，這場比賽只用了不到三個鐘頭，但是過程更為凶險，費德勒表示他喜歡這樣的比賽，被逼到極限以後他很高興自己還能留在比賽當中。