Jonas Bjorkman
Jonas Bjorkman
Jonas Lars Björkmanis a former World No. 4 Swedish professional tennis player. He is also a former World No. 1 in doubles. Björkman retired from professional tennis after competing at the 2008 Tennis Masters Cup Doubles championships...
feeling fight good keen point quite second served trouble win
We were in trouble in the second set quite often. We managed to come back after they served for the set and had a set point. We never got to the point where we were feeling we were going to lose. We were always keen to win and had a good fight back.
believed half moment nice playing time waiting year
I've been waiting for this moment for more than a year and half to be playing this well. There was a time I believed I may never play this well again. It's nice that it's back.
business directors fresh ideas people players position tournament willing
The tournament directors have a lot of ideas, and the players have a lot of ideas, ... Unfortunately not every tournament director is willing to listen...and we probably don't have the right people in position (at the ATP). We need some fresh people in there, some new business people in there.
badly bother heat perform played
We played really badly and did not perform as we expected. The heat did not bother us.
direction excited guy worldwide
I am excited about the new guy de Villiers, ... We need a new direction...we are worldwide very well known. It shouldn't be so difficult.
We need to be a little more like a (player's) union.
quite
(The players) have been having quite a lot of meetings,
good hard
It's always hard to play a countryman. We are very very good friends and do a lot of things off the court.
great quality
It's great to see his quality out there.
change goes positive rules talk
(The ATP) goes in and say 'We're going to change the rules of tennis,' ... The ITF is not going to change it...We need to do more research. And we just need to talk positive about the doubles.
martin player players stepping strong todd
We used to have strong representatives like Todd Martin on the player council, ... But now a lot of the players are stepping back, they say (the ATP Council/Board system) is not working anymore.
bruce heard reached spoke talking tournament
What we've been talking with the ATP hasn't reached the tournament directors, ... I spoke to (Cincinnati Tournament Director) Bruce Flory and he hadn't heard of some of the things.
against favourite games playing surprises
We know our games well after playing against and together, so it is not going to be any surprises for any of us going into that (doubles) match. They (Paes and Bhupathi) would be the big favourite to win.
based change complete decisions open players rules smart
They (The ATP) went in and said 'We're going to change the rules of tennis'. They haven't even consulted our players before they made up their decisions I am open to any change but it must based on the smart and complete research.