Lleyton Hewitt Match Quotations

He spat in my direction; he apologized at the net after the match, and I accepted his apology. I don't think it's the right thing, and it's not good for the game. It's unfortunate because we were having a good dogfight match out there. We were going for it. It's sad that something like that happens. But I said, 'Just forget about it, mate'.

It will be different this time, ... I'm playing really well at the moment. I'm playing better in every match and I have nothing to lose.

I had a tough match in the first round and sometimes that puts you in good stead for the tournament.

I just hung in there and made him play, ... I tried to play percentages on the match points and pulled the trigger when I needed to...I was up a set and a twice a break up, and I just didn't serve great out there tonight.

Especially big ties. When we've played the finals before, quite often I'd played the Masters Cup and the whole indoor circuit and a lot of matches and maybe I was physically run down a little bit going in,

It was extremely tough conditions. So it was one match that you just wanted to get under your belt and get back into the locker room as quickly as possible.

He's played enough big matches and his record in finals against top 10 players over the last two years really speaks for itself. I don't think it's really going to cause him a lot of havoc.

I'm not quite 100 percent, so it's nice to get through. I felt like I moved a lot better in the past. It's a little bit of confidence with pushing off the ankle. Tonight's match was a tough because Paul competes his heart out, especially on a hard court.

It's nice to get through to another semi-final. Every match gets tougher,

It's nice to be through to another semifinal, another tough match, ... Every match gets tougher.

I didn't feel like I had a lot of energy throughout a lot of the match out there. I was really struggling to get myself up.

I didn't think I served very well actually. I was a little slower there than my other matches but I was able to hold on there.

That's probably the most pleasing thing out of today's match, ... I get another crack at someone (today). I think that every match I play, I'm hopefully going to get better and better.

I would do anything to play that last match (the men's singles final) on that Sunday night at the Australian Open,

The 2002 final was one of the greatest matches I've ever played. I have good memories of San Jose. I saved a lot of match points, and Andre was in his best shape ever.

I knew I was in for a tough match even though grass isn't his surface and I am just delighted to win,

It's always nice to get through, especially coming off a match like Taylor, which could have gone either way in a lot of ways, only a couple points here and there,

I just tried to make him play more as the match went on. I'm feeling better and better with every match.

I've always played well in Sydney. Hopefully, I can get some matches there under my belt before going into Melbourne.

It's been pretty good this week, ... I could easily have lost in the second round to Greg (Rusedski). To come through that and have some tough matches is very good. It's great preparation for the US Open.

The first couple of matches we played, I was one of the top guys and he was on his way up. The last few times, we've both been at the top of the game. The biggest one was probably the Aussie Open semifinal.

There aren't going to be any easy matches, but it would be great to win here. I still have three matches away from there.

It was an awkward match to go out there and play. I knew I was heavily favored to go out there and win, but with Davis Cup, I've been in enough big ties and been the underdog in that many big matches that it's a different kind of pressure and it sort of levels itself out ... the competition out there.

In doubles there's only a few points here and there that can change the outcome of the whole match but they played very, very well,