Han gad ikke mødes med mig omme bag busken (strengt, hvilket jeg også har tænkt mig at sige til ham i skarpe, skarpe vendinger søndag, hvor jeg skal stalke ham på træningsbanen) men så var det heldigt, at han blev tvunget til at holde et lille pressemøde, som ingen gad at dukke op til, så jeg kunne sætte mig og grille ham i fem minutter, inden nogle voldspsykopatiske tjekker tog over.
Og hvis I ikke ved, hvem jeg hentyder til, så er det virkelig fordi, I ikke kender mig særlig godt.
Her følger et bevis på, hvorfor tjekker bare skal holde sig fra internationale begivenheder. Enten det eller også skal de ændre deres officielle sprog, så tjekkisk DØR og de alle lærer engelsk. For det her giver godt nok ikke megen mening.
Mig: You started having big wins, I don’t know, three, four years ago, and we saw you beat Nadal and people said you were going to be a top five player. So far that hasn’t quite happened yet. Why is it the case that you haven’t sort of reached the level that people think you can?
Berdy: Well so first if I would not… if I will know why it happens then I would change it and I will get there on the ranking. But no, I mean, I’m trying for my best. Here it’s… maybe here it’s the start of the way to get back and definitely I think it’s possible to be back in there, and as you see there is so many new faces coming up every year that you can find one, two new faces. It’s really tough to, like, get there, stay there, or even move higher in the rankings.
Mig: Do you think it’s still possible?
Berdy: If it’s going to be like, I don’t know, not coming for the tournaments, not practicing, whatever, then I can say yes, I didn’t do my best to move on the ranking. But if you’re doing everything right, yeah, just trying and hope it’s going to be coming soon.
Mig: What do you think you’ll have to do in a match against someone who can hit the ball the way Roddick does? You both hit the ball pretty hard.
Berdy: Well you see… i think it’s going to be really about the serve, because if I can stay with him, I don’t know, until the tiebreak or really close games, then some other things can show in the game. Nerves, whatever. So that’s really the important thing. Because if one of us is going to be ahead in the beginning of the set, then he’s going to be really up and he’s going to be confident. I will try my best to stay with him on serve and in tiebreak you never know. Could be one point, two points and you can be set up, set down, you never know. So I think that’s going to be some kind of tactic.
Også kendt som “the overwhelming sense of ‘jeg tror sgu, din taktik kommer til at virke helt vildt glimrende, du’!”
Andy Roddick kunne i øvrigt sige om Berdy, at “he is streaky. It’s rarely middle of the road. He’s either really good or not so good, but right now you expect to get the best of him.”
A. Rod giver imho naturligvis langt mere mening… men mening har heldigvis heller aldrig vundet nogen tenniskampe. Cowboy!
