Taylor Dent
Taylor Dent
Taylor Phillip Dentis a retired professional tennis player from the United States. He reached a career-high singles ranking of World No. 21, winning 4 singles titles...
ProfessionTennis Player
Date of Birth24 April 1981
battling couple double four game hit next problem serve serves
The problem I'm battling with is the consistency. I can serve four aces one game and come out the next game, hit a couple of double faults, not make any first serves and get broken.
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I lost this match for the same reason I lost 99 percent of my matches over the last year and a half; my serve let me down. He played awesome; he made me pay for my lack of serving.
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He's going to cruise through a lot of service games because he's got one of the best serves in the world, but sooner or later I'll get the chance to break.
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I missed a few volleys here and there I probably shouldn't have missed. But I served well and was solid from the baseline.
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It was disappointing, but more frustrating than anything else. My serve really let me down today. I didn't have enough good first or second serves.
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After the first set he started making a lot of first serves and I didn't play solid enough from the back to have a chance to beak him. On top of that he was playing very well and hitting great passing shots and I wasn't able to overcome that.
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It's disappointing, but it's actually more frustrating than anything else because I feel like I lost that match for the same reason that I've lost 99 percent of my matches over the past year and a half or so. My serve just really let me down today.
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We just have to try to step up and be a little bit better, ... just keep moving the bar up a little bit.
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As soon as you try to start controlling what the other players are doing, you're going to find yourself pretty frustrated, ... At the end of the day, I am not going to lose the match because he's cheering on my bad shots.
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Bottom line, everybody's trying to win out there,
affects days disservice extremely few final masters match prepare recover series tournament
I am extremely disappointed to still feel the affects of the final match in Indianapolis. I'd be doing the tournament and myself a disservice to go out there at 50 percent. I'm going to take a few days to recover and prepare for the ATP Masters Series events.
felt physically
Physically I felt great. He didn't put me under that much pressure.
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The advantage is going to be with guys taking those blocked returns out of the air. Mark my words.
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My theory on return games is making the guy play as much as possible and if I get a short ball, I'm going to come in and make him pass me, ... But God, he hit a lot of winners and was playing really well. I had to track down a lot of balls.