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附上賽後訪問

THE MODERATOR: With the win today, Andre picks up his 30th career win here in the desert, and will take on the winner of Dominik Hrbaty and Xavier Malisse in the third round.
Questions for Andre.

Q. Would you like to talk about that ceremony a little bit.

ANDRE AGASSI: 1;36;40 Well, I wasn't aware of it coming off the
court. Mr. Barnes just asked me, they were doing a little ceremony for, you
know, the victims in memory of the tragedy that took place, so I obviously said
I'd love to be part of it and show my support any way I can. It's a terrible
thing that happened.The only way you can make up for such tragedies is with a
little good human spirit coming together and giving strength to those who need
it.

Q. You seemed to be pretty efficient today out there.

ANDRE AGASSI: Yeah, I felt good. It was a good match-up for me. He gave me a chance in the first match, gave me a chance to hit a lot of balls. But I was in control of most of the points, which I obviously like.
I felt good about every part of my game today. It was a good start for me.

Q. Didn't appear to be any rust after the layoff?

ANDRE AGASSI: No, I've been working hard, practicing well. So
obviously matches are different. You hope that nothing pops up or sort of
reveals itself when you're out there. And today I felt like everything was
right where I expected it to be.

Q. Dominik Hrbaty could be one of your next opponents. Do you find
it interesting, a guy like him who is sort of falling into a journeyman's role,
wins three tournaments this year? Sudden turnaround, isn't it?

ANDRE AGASSI: Yeah, it is. It sort of speaks to his abilities
and maybe how he could have been doing all along. I mean, I think he's a great
striker of the ball. He plays a very aggressive style of tennis, which lends
for a certain amount of unpredictable results because there are some days the
ball's not going to fall for you.
I think the consistency in his results is something that he can improve a lot
on because he's talented enough. But he's every bit as dangerous as anybody
out there. Hits a big ball.

Q. I know you practiced the other day with Roger. Presumably you
practiced with him before. There's so much talk about him now, people are
saying he has a Sampras kind of game. A, is that accurate? B, are you at
all surprised that somebody with that kind of game in today's configuration
in tennis is doing quite that well?

ANDRE AGASSI: I haven't practiced with him. Did you just mention
that?

Q. Somebody told me they saw you practicing with him.

ANDRE AGASSI: No. (談論Pete與Roger的不同）
You know, I don't view Roger similar to Pete. I mean, I'm dealing
with subtleties out there. I find them to be different. I find Pete's serve
to be much bigger, but Roger to be a better returner. I think Roger's a better
groundstroker, but I think Pete's a better volleyer.
You know, when you sort of take X's and O's, you give some to this guy, some
to this guy, at the end of the day it's champions against champions.
Who knows how it's going to come out.
But I think he's a tremendous talent. I think he has a great game to watch.
It's no surprise to me at all that he can win in today's game with his style.
He does everything really good, and does a few things great. It's a great
game.He has a game that he can play from the back of the court and play with
the best from back there. Then he has a game that, you know, if he plays a guy
that doesn't quite return well, that chips the return, tends to back up, that
he can come forward and sort of take him out of the equation.
He has a game that can sort of beat different guys different ways. That's what
you need to win major tournaments. That's what you need to be at the top spot.
And he definitely has that.
There's a lot of matches through the year, you know. There are going to be
times you play guys, that if you make it harder on yourself than necessary,
it takes its toll. And Roger has a great game to sort of avoid those days
from happening.

Q. Do you see Roger and Roddick forming a rivalry on a similar basis
to your rivalry with Pete? （談AA vs PS AR vs RF看法）

ANDRE AGASSI: Well, I mean, so many things really have to come
together for a rivalry to take that sort of form. There's certainly potential
for it. You've got two of the top players in the game that are young, looks
like they're both going to be around a while. You got that working.
You know, Pete and I, we're more contrast in styles of play and personality
than I think you would see with Roger and Andy. I mean, that also adds to
the element of a rivalry. I mean, Pete and I couldn't have played the game
more opposite. So that's a big factor.
But ultimately, it's going to be them playing big matches a number of times
for that to sort of settle into its own place in the game.


Q. There was kind of a strange moment I didn't understand out there.
You ran down a dropshot, he ran down your return, then you reflexed a volley.
He acted like you did something illegal. What was that all about?

ANDRE AGASSI: Yeah. I hit a volley that sort of just threw my
arm at. He was claiming it was a double hit, that the ball had hit the frame
of my racquet twice.
I couldn't help him with his concern because I didn't know what the rule is.
To be quite honest, I still don't know. I think the rule is if it's one swing,
you're fine.

Q. I think that's right.

ANDRE AGASSI: He was sort of asking me, "Didn't you double hit it?"
I'm going, "I don't think that's the issue. It was definitely one swing."
So I don't know. That's what the concern was, issue was.

Q. Is it tough to get up for a match like you get today? You have
these days, day at the office, early match, hot day. How do you fire yourself
up for it?

ANDRE AGASSI: Well, this one was pretty easy. There are days
like that. I wouldn't consider this to be one of them, you know. It's been
a few weeks since I've played. I've been working hard. I'm anxious to get
out there. Looking forward to settling into my game. I want to play well
here. I've been injured here two years in a row. Haven't played well here
in a while. I felt very motivated to sort of come out and get myself
comfortable and feel my game, you know.
But the days where it is harder, you know, it takes an ability that we all have
to learn in our lives where you sort of go, "Okay, there are things we want to
do and there are things we have to do."
As long as the things we want to do don't interfere with the things
we have todo, we've got a chance of our life making sense.
I try not to make it too emotional for myself anymore. I just try to go to
work and don't make it worse than it might be on its own.


Q. Do you find the weather a factor now? If so, how do you use it
to your advantage?

ANDRE AGASSI: Well, the weather's always a factor. There's
elements out there, everywhere you play, whether it be surface, weather, wind
or sun, rain or heaviness, altitude. I mean, there's so many different sort
of variables that lend to any given feel of a match or of a tournament.
Whenever you have heat as an equation, you obviously want to be efficient
with what you're doing out there and hopefully be in control of what's going
on. Quite honestly, it's what I try to do anyways. So if I do that well, then
I think the heat kind of works for you because you're not hating it as much as
your opponent.
But, you know, it's uncomfortable for everybody out there - even the fans.
You just try to deal with it better than one person.


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