Lleyton Hewitt Pressure Quotations

I couldn't put in first serves and was double faulting. He puts a lot pressure on anyone's service games. He has a good compact return.

I felt it was a matter of trying to regroup, put my head down, work hard and not to give too many points away in the second set. I wanted to put more pressure on him early in the second set, and I was able to do that. The momentum really swung in my favor and I was able to continue to do that in the third set as well.

I felt like I played pretty solid. I put pressure on nearly all of his service games. I was trying to dictate as much as possible and get him on the defensive.

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 wasn't making a lot of easy mistakes so I tried to put more pressure on him and I was able to do that.

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.

It's a matter of putting as much pressure on Roger as possible, ... No one has been able to find the exact formula to topple him.

In the second set I couldn't put a foot wrong and started to get on top of him, but I just played a slack first game of the third set. I had the momentum big time at that stage, all I had to do was put some pressure on his service game, but some bad double faults and errors meant I was playing catch-up in the third set.

In the past, when I've had opportunities on big points, he hasn't given me an opportunity to attack or put pressure on him,

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.

Maybe if you're playing in London or America, you don't feel that pressure quite as much.