Del Potro第一輪賽後訪問 - 網球 Tennis

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Tuesday, 18 January, 2011

Q. How good does it feel to be back in a Grand Slam arena after so much
frustration for you?

JUAN MARTIN DEL POTRO: Well, I feel good. Is nice for me be here with these
players, this tournament, and of course playing a Grand Slam.

Today I play good tennis again. But I'm really enjoying this week. I met with
all the players, especially the top 10 players. They support me when I was
very bad. So now I face to face with them and I say thank you.

Q. Did you have to change your technique a little bit to put less pressure on
your wrist?

JUAN MARTIN DEL POTRO: I trying to not. I feel in good shape again. I work
very hard with my physical trainer. I need time to play harder and to play
stronger. But just I need time.

Sometimes some balls I play, I hit very, very far, and sometimes not. But
with time and with training and with focus in every practice, I will take
again.

Q. Have you become a very patient person? Usually young people are impatient;
they want to see everything very quickly.

JUAN MARTIN DEL POTRO: Yeah, I know the way to be with good ranking again.
But it's a long road. I need to work very hard because all the players are
very tough at this moment. All players playing good tennis, especially here
in the five set matches.

But I'm still improving my game. I feel good with my wrist. That's important
to training every day and to feel comfortable for the next tournaments.

Q. Can you describe this last year with your injury.

JUAN MARTIN DEL POTRO: I had a very bad year. For three or four months nobody
knows about my wrist. I think that's a bad thing for my mind. But after the
surgery, the doctor say between four and six months you will be playing
again. I was very, very quiet. Because if I do my step by step very quiet, I
will be playing again. That's what is happen now.

I have a good start season. I beat Feliciano López last week and today I won
another match. That's what I need. I need time, I need matches, I need sets,
I need hours into the court. Then in the future, I will be better.

Q. You talked about the support of the fellow top 10 players. How did they
support you? Did they call you or send messages?

JUAN MARTIN DEL POTRO: Everything. They call me and they send an emails,
everything. It's important. They have all his schedule very close, very
completed. Sometimes if you got his callings, is good because they are
thinking about you and about yourself. So I just want to say thank you to all
of them. For me it's good playing against them again.

Q. Was someone calling you or writing you more than others, better friends
you have on the circuit?

JUAN MARTIN DEL POTRO: My better friends are in Tandil. I don't know. With
one matches is good, is enough to feel they support. I don't care if Federer
send me ten message and Rafa send me two. The important thing, it's they send
to me and they was thinking about me. So I just want to say thank you.

I was watching his matches in my home. I'm really want to congratulate all of
them because they are making amazing tennis for the fans and for the players,
too.

Q. I know you have to play more matches, but do you feel as strong now as you
were when you won the US Open?

JUAN MARTIN DEL POTRO: I don't think so. I say last week I have this present
today from this tournament. To my future, I will try my best. I don't want to
think in the past. I won a Grand Slam, but I'm working to improve my game. I
don't know if I can play like two years ago or not, but I will try.

Every practicing, every day, I speak with Franco. If he say, Make hundred
service, I will do it for be good with myself. I'm trying to improve every
day. I'm trying to fight with the top 10 players again.

Q. What is the most difficult thing for you now that you've been away for
such a long time?

JUAN MARTIN DEL POTRO: Everything. Everything is difficult. But I am really
enjoy be here again. I know maybe two years ago, play against 200 players,
feel good. But this is my present. If I play against Rafa or if I play
against 50 different player, I will feel I don't know very complicated. It
just depends my game. It just depends my mind, my physic.

I know the way to win matches, but I need time to do it.

Q. Do you realize there were only two players who won a slam out of the last
23 slams? One was you and the other was Djokovic. Is that something you
almost don't believe today or something that gives you pride and hope that
you'll be back?

JUAN MARTIN DEL POTRO: I already won my Grand Slam. Djokovic, too. But maybe
Murray, Novak, Soderling, now they have the game to beat Rafa and Roger.

I am very far away, but I'm working to be in that level in the future. I'm
trying to beat Rafa and Roger in same Grand Slam to win another one.

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