01.06.2011 18:05:59 | The defending champion at UniCredit Czech Open, Jan Hajek, turned out too weak to resist Russian Mikhail Youzhny. Did you have any chance to stand up to your strong opponent today? “Of course I did, any opponent can be beaten but today it was visible why he is ATP no. 13 and I am ranked around 100. I wanted to win too much, my entrance into the match was not bad but then I made a few mistakes and the match took an unexpected turn. Players as Youzhny can punish and immediately make use of such mistakes.”
And what about Hajek’s health? “I endured the whole match; I was in a good shape only thanks to intensive care of a few good people who helped me a lot.” The other part of the draw seemed weaker than the first one, didn’t it? “At the first sight it really may seem so, the seeds were knocked out in the first round and Tommy Roberdo withdrew, but we will see later if this half of the draw was really weaker.”
