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
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.
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,
felt five match
I felt like I had her there. Of course, if you come back from five match points, no way you are going to lose.
forward looking lucky match matches save tough winning
It was a really tough match and I was lucky to save the match point. And I am looking forward to winning two more matches here.
advantage feeling happened match pushed rally rare tired took
I was just off, and she was all over me. She just took advantage and didn't let it go. I had the feeling when I rally with her, I was getting tired and pushed back too much, just too much power. It's really one of the rare ones where there was no match at all. I don't really know what happened to me.
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.
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.
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.
booming great martina successful tennis
It's great that we are so successful and that tennis is booming in our country. As for having Martina being back, it's incredible.