ASAP Sports: Roddick Interview 05/10/07

Q. Was that a useless experience, or did you actually take anything out of the match?
ANDY RODDICK: No. I don’t know if it’s ever a useless exercise. Obviously it wasn’t great. You know, it’s going to be tough for me when — you know, on this stuff, even the stuff I normally do well, without the elements involved I don’t do well on the day and that’s going make it really tough for me. I served horribly today, and that made the rest of it a little tough for me.

Q. Where do you take it from here given that Hamburg is not going to be any better conditions?
ANDY RODDICK: Yeah. I mean, it’s a tough — I’m in little bit of an odd position here. I came in here short on practice. I was battling a stomach virus for a little while.
So I don’t feel like I’m in as good a shape as I could be as a result of that. So somewhere between here and Roland Garros I’m going to have to get in shape.
You know, Hamburg is going to be tough for me as well. The conditions are pretty cold and, you know, so it’s — I definitely have my work cut out for me.

Q. I hope this hasn’t been asked. You started to come in at the end. Was it too late?
ANDY RODDICK: You know what, I actually started hitting the ball a little bit better in the second set, and that allowed me to get in a little bit more. But I dug a good hole for myself in the first ten minutes out there today.
So, you know, unfortunately that made me fight a little bit of an uphill battle. But, yeah, it could have been a little bit too little too late.

Q. Davis Cup question. Sweden chose indoor for the finals.
ANDY RODDICK: They did?

Q. Yeah.
ANDY RODDICK: That’s too bad.

Q. What do you think about that? Does it suit your game?
ANDY RODDICK: Fast court, yes. Yes, fast indoors, yes. You know, I guess I knew it was between that and clay, but that’s actually one of the few away ties where, you know, by them taking away our advantage I feel like they’re taking away their advantage as well.
I guess you feel like it’s maybe the same chances on either surface for both teams, so maybe on the indoor hard they’ll just be better quality.

Q. Were you surprised that they didn’t choose clay?
ANDY RODDICK: No. I mean, I would have been a little surprised either way. But I’m not really that surprised, no.

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