Olivier Rochus
Olivier Rochus
Olivier Rochusis a retired Belgian tennis player. He has won two singles titles in his career and in 2004 won the French Open doubles title partnering fellow Belgian Xavier Malisse. Rochus' career-high singles ranking is World No. 24...
ProfessionTennis Player
Date of Birth18 January 1981
fight four lost match played
You fight for four hours, 20 minutes... I already lost two tiebreakers. I never played a match that was so close... to go out like this is tough. What can you do?
aggressive serves
Everything is possible. Ferrer always has better serves but I was more aggressive in my response.
andy break feeling serve shape time unlucky worse
I was not feeling too bad. Andy was in worse shape than me in the fifth. I think I was really unlucky not to break him. His serve all the time was still there.
either gone
I have never been so disappointed. It could have gone either way. It was that close.
behind net
It's like he's right behind the net when he serves.
ball touching
The ball was not even touching the line,
pressure
It is very important to get this match. It would get some pressure off Christophe's shoulders.
beat close losing size thinking
When I'm losing a match, it's not because of my size. I beat already a lot of top-10 players, I know that I'm close to there. The size is really not a problem. I'm really not thinking about this anymore.
almost laughing
We were almost laughing at him, and now he's laughing at us. He's No.1, easy. And really, when he was young, at the beginning, he was really bad.
beat gets matches
He was just too good. If you are going to beat him, you have to beat him in the first round. He gets better the more matches he plays.
lost match played
I already lost two tie-break. I never played a match that was so close...to go out like this is tough. What can you do?
almost good played
I played a good match. He's just better than me in almost every way.
against everybody losing remember
I remember him when we were 13 years old. He was always losing 6-0, 6-1 against everybody in the under-14 tournament.
aggressive attack match played result tried
I played very aggressive today, especially during the important games. I tried to attack as often as possible. The match was very close, even if the result doesn't really show it.