Lleyton Hewitt Last Quotations

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

I have been looking forward to this since I came off court against Federer in the last tie and nothing has changed,

He's going to have a lot more pressure on him as well this year to try and back up what an incredible year he had last year. That's not going to be an easy thing for him to do.

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.

It definitely helped him out. There's no doubt about that. You know, he still played extremely well, and he didn't give me a lot of opportunities out there, but the court surface, it's very hard to dictate play out there. It's slower than last year. There's no doubt about that, whether it's the balls or not.

There are a lot of positives that came out of the last two weeks.

There's not too many people that have been actually able to beat him the last two years or so,

Back when I first started, it seemed that I kept bumping into a lot of other Australians. It's something that I haven't done in the last couple of years.

It's disappointing because in practice I feel like I've been hitting the ball great over the last week or so.

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've had some kind of stomach virus for the last few days. It just got worse and worse.

Every tournament I've played so far this year I've put myself in a position to win. The last six Grand Slams I've played I've lost to the eventual winner, so I'm obviously doing something extremely right. I've just got to take that next step to hold up the trophy.

The last six Grand Slams I've played I've lost to the eventual winner, so I'm doing something right.

I haven't been able to eat anything the last three or four days, which just really hit me up because I've got no energy whatsoever right at the moment.

But in the clutch moments I played pretty well. That was probably the best I played, when the pressure was actually on. That's a good sign, but I haven't really served well the last couple of days and hopefully it can improve tomorrow.

I didn't eat for about four or five days. So it hit me pretty bad. I felt a little bit awkward the last few days just training, getting back into the routine of things again. I'm definitely a lot better than a week ago.

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.