Patty Schnyder
Patty Schnyder
Patty Schnyderis a Swiss professional tennis player. She reached number 7 in the world rankings. She twice defeated a reigning world no. 1 player in her career: Martina Hingis at the 1998 Grand Slam Cup and Jennifer Capriati at the 2002 Family Circle Cup. In addition, she defeated former number 1s Lindsay Davenport, Serena Williams, Arantxa Sánchez Vicario, Steffi Graf, Kim Clijsters, Justine Henin, Amélie Mauresmo, Maria Sharapova, Jelena Janković, Ana Ivanovic and Caroline Wozniacki...
ProfessionTennis Player
Date of Birth14 December 1978
definitely deserved faced lucky maybe opponent ready win
I faced an opponent who was just ready for everything I had today. She was maybe lucky in the first set to win it, but she was definitely better over the two sets. She deserved to win, but I made her play.
good move
I think just generally, my footwork was really not good and it was uncomfortable to move around the court.
cannot maybe percent played point work worse
I just cannot play on this surface. I play maybe 50 percent worse on hard, ... I just played for every point but it did not work at the beginning.
I really don't know how it got to 6-0.
change helps kept served speeds stuck tactics tried
I really dominated. I stuck with my tactics and kept my concentration. I tried to change speeds on her backhand ... I served well. That helps a lot in exchanges.
advantage feeling final maybe serve struggled three
I'm very disappointed, the way the whole final went. I was never really feeling my game. My serve was not really there, and also maybe she struggled for two, three games, but I could not really take advantage of it.
beginner beginning coordinate dizzy feeling felt hands legs second three
I started to feel unwell at the beginning of the second set, after two or three games. I was feeling dizzy like I couldn't coordinate what my legs and what my hands were doing. I felt like a beginner out there.
advantage attention happened lost took
I don't know really what happened to me. She just took advantage and didn't let it go. I just lost my attention a bit. Off the long wait, I don't know. I could really never feel comfortable.
close french good lost mary open played run
I can feel it happening. I (could) tell after I lost in the French Open to Mary Pierce. She had an unbelievable run and I played close. But close is not good enough for me. I want to get to a final.
perfect played tennis
I am very happy. I think I played perfect tennis tonight.
few home move proud support weeks wish
I wish we could play more weeks here and why not the U.S. Open, move it down to Charleston. They make me feel at home and it's just a very few weeks where you really feel that support and I'm proud of it.
felt five match
I felt like I had her there. Of course, if you come back from five match points, no way you are going to lose.