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.'
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.
difficult great happy match player win
She's a great player and I'm really happy to win such a difficult match and to win overall,
ball great happy played racket start strings strung today
She played great today and from the start I was not there. I couldn't feel the ball as well as I would like to. I was not happy with the strings at all. I couldn't get the racket strung the way I wanted it.
fight focus good happy next ready run second turned
It was really tough. She had a pretty good run in the second set and I really had to fight back and focus on every point. But I was really happy the way it turned out at the end of the second set and I feel ready for my next opponent.
happy improve issues returns serving timing
I think I still have some timing issues to improve to feel more comfortable, ... I was happy with the returns and serving so that was good.
bit happy serve struggled
My serve was on. She struggled a bit with her reach, but I am happy with the way I played.
anywhere ball bit definitely feeling happy miss normally struggling
I was not very happy with the way I played, but I got through. I'm really struggling a bit because normally here I just could place the ball anywhere I wanted and really not miss too many. So I definitely want to get that feeling back.
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.
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.
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.
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.
competing forward looking los playing
I'm playing well and looking forward to competing in Los Angeles.