![]() So I got quite frustrated.īut we get on and I spoke to him on Thursday after his match when he was on the massage bench. It was so frustrating to play him because he was too good from the baseline, playing the ball too fast, taking the ball too early and he had great returns and passing shots. I came close a couple of times but never managed it. So on the two surfaces I believe I could have beaten him, we never played. Unfortunately I never played him on clay or grass, only on hardcourts and indoors. He was an extremely frustrating man for me to play against. I played him six times and he won all of them. It is one thing to set your goals, quite another to reach them. That takes incredible determination in itself. Instead he took time off and came back ready to give everything. ![]() He does not get caught somewhere in the middle, just playing at 70%. ![]() He seems to have a mindset that says: if I need to reach a goal I will do whatever it takes but if I am not willing to put the effort in, I might as well just take six months off. That takes an incredible effort and he was probably the only player capable of doing it. In 1998 he rose from No122 to the top 10 in a year. ![]() He would take a year off if he didn't feel like playing and then he would come back. But he came back to win it and became only the fifth player to win all four grand slams. ![]() He reached the French Open final in 1990, when he lost against Andrés Gómez, and in 1991, when he lost to Jim Courier, both of which were shocks. ![]()
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