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May 5, 2005

Dominik Hrbaty

THE MODERATOR: Questions, please.

DOMINIK HRBATY: I hope it's going to be great match. We played here year 2000. I beat him here that time. With Andre I always like to play. It's always great tennis. He's a great player. I have nothing to lose. I always enjoy the match against the guy like him. I'm looking forward to it. For sure if I play -- I hope if I play like today, I have a big chance to win.

DOMINIK HRBATY: I think I play more consistent now than I used to play in 2000. Now I have more solid results. My tennis is not that much up and down. I think I do less mistakes, easy mistakes, than I did before maybe. I go more often also to the net. I improved my ground strokes. I think I can play from any position a lot of different angles, which at that time I didn't used to play; I played many same shots, and now I have a bigger variety.

DOMINIK HRBATY: Yeah, I played well. I mean, last year I didn't have probably -- I had a final on clay in Casablanca, but didn't beat anybody big this year. Especially I beat first time also Tim, which, for me, it's very important. With these kind of guys like him, I never liked to play too much. But I played very well today and I served big, so I can say that was one of my best matches this year - I mean on clay, not on the tour.