Tommy Haas
Tommy Haas
Thomas Mario "Tommy" Haasis a German-American professional tennis player. He has competed on the ATP Tour since 1996. After breaking into the world top 100 in 1997, and reaching a career-high singles ranking of World No. 2 in May 2002, Haas's career was interrupted by injuries: he has twice dropped out of the world rankings due to being unable to play for twelve months. His first period of injury saw him miss the whole of the 2003 season, and he...
ProfessionTennis Player
Date of Birth3 April 1978
CityHamburg, Germany
focused game match might serve tough
When you serve for a match and you don't get that game and it's 5-all, it is tough to get yourself focused again. I thought he might be frustrated.
great
Overall, I thought it was a great point,
good overall though trying
Overall I feel pretty good though and I'll be trying for at least a place in the quarter-finals here.
field good
I think the field is pretty good here,
crowd favorite good great james last lives minutes playing since tennis weeks
James has been playing some great tennis the last two weeks and he'll probably be the crowd favorite since he lives 25 minutes from here, ... It should be a good atmosphere. It should be a very interesting match.
beat tough
I think it'll be tough to beat him here this week.
best great hit last overall takes
He doesn't give you much rhythm, ... I didn't have the best preparation and only got one hit in yesterday. But overall I had a great last weekend, and I'm going to keep going with it and see where it takes me here.
battles close good
Pavel is a very good player, ... We have had some close battles in the past.
davis france good reckoned
France will have to be reckoned with in Davis Cup. We weren't good enough today.
accident months motorcycle parents ranked shoulder surgery
I was ranked No. 2 in the world and then I was out for 15 months between my shoulder surgery and my parents getting in a motorcycle accident in 2002,
almost best died james match mother playing remember
My coach's mother died just before that match and I remember I almost didn't play, ... I wasn't really at my best and James was playing well then.
holding level shoulder slowly
I'm slowly getting back into things and the shoulder is holding up. If I play to this level I know I can do well here,
balls cool heavy played quite second seem tonight tough
It is always tough to play someone you haven't played before. Tonight was quite cool and the balls were quite heavy and it didn't seem like they were going anywhere. He let go in the second and I put it up a notch.
few good james might serve
James is good when his serve is on, ... I might have to make some adjustments for the first few games. I know James will come up with some big serves.