Patty Schnyder
Patty Schnyder
Patty Schnyderis a Swiss professional tennis player. She reached number 7 in the world rankings. She twice defeated a reigning world no. 1 player in her career: Martina Hingis at the 1998 Grand Slam Cup and Jennifer Capriati at the 2002 Family Circle Cup. In addition, she defeated former number 1s Lindsay Davenport, Serena Williams, Arantxa Sánchez Vicario, Steffi Graf, Kim Clijsters, Justine Henin, Amélie Mauresmo, Maria Sharapova, Jelena Janković, Ana Ivanovic and Caroline Wozniacki...
ProfessionTennis Player
Date of Birth14 December 1978
crowd happy point support
I'm very happy to be in the semis, ... I told the crowd 'please support me from the first point on tomorrow.'
finals past reached
I'm not too disappointed because I've reached two finals in the past two weeks,
came happiness happy opening win
I'm happy to win the opening match. I came here to win one or two matches, ... I just don't see the way I can win this event.
few
In the end, it comes down to a few big points. If you make them, you win.
expect
I didn't know what to expect and I was very happy. They were there for me.
beat few less
If I want to win, it's like she has to play less than 100 percent. If I want to beat her, really everything has to go my way. It's just very few times that that can happen.
perfect played tennis
I am very happy. I think I played perfect tennis tonight.
handle played powerful pressure strokes
I could not handle the pressure because her strokes are so powerful and very deep. And she really played good, very solid.
excited five leave matches nice row starting year
I'm really excited about starting the year like this. It's always nice to play five matches in a row like this and leave a place as a champion.
asking pace speed umpire
I know that she does it and that's her way. I was not too much asking the umpire to speed things up because I know it's her way, but still, I think on the serve, you should go with the pace of the server.
break either knew mixed
I knew if I mixed it up, like either her forehand or backhand it could break down a little bit. That's what happened.
clever games hard hit pace slower stick
The first four-to-five games I had to stick with her pace and her hard serves. She hit some clever shots, like slower ones to my backhand.
cannot maybe percent played point work worse
I just cannot play on this surface. I play maybe 50 percent worse on hard, ... I just played for every point but it did not work at the beginning.
advantage feeling final maybe serve struggled three
I'm very disappointed, the way the whole final went. I was never really feeling my game. My serve was not really there, and also maybe she struggled for two, three games, but I could not really take advantage of it.