Lleyton Hewitt Work Quotations

I still feel like there's areas of my game that I can work on if I want to make any real inroads into this tournament and be a serious contender,

I still feel it out there. I really felt it when I jammed it about four times. But it's just something that I have to work through.

This is what you do your off-season work for and hopefully this is going to pay off.

That's what you do all the hard work for, to play in situations that put your body through gruelling times. If you're not up to it, pull out.

I've had a different preparation this year. I did a lot of hard work and training so that I'd last right through the Australian summer.

I felt it was a matter of trying to regroup, put my head down, work hard and not to give too many points away in the second set. I wanted to put more pressure on him early in the second set, and I was able to do that. The momentum really swung in my favor and I was able to continue to do that in the third set as well.

Hopefully if he can work and put his head down, if he can sort of bounce back and get the crowd behind him and play some good tennis at the Aussie Open, that could set up a bit of a change in the rankings next year.

So far, so good. I'm still in the tournament. I still feel like there's areas of my game that I can work on.