AUSTRALIAN OPEN

January 26, 2005

Nikolay Davydenko

Q. What happened during the match?

NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: Just, I don't know. Start first set, about I think 3-All in the first set, then I feeling something. Because we play short points. This was okay. And then one few points was long and I feeling something, I cannot breathe. For me, today was really hot. I don't know how feeling. It's no breathe, and then everything just only for one I cannot running, I cannot control my ball, everything. Just I am missing everything. And I try something to do, just call doctor, maybe something happen, something maybe better feeling. But, yeah, I take break, five minutes. It was okay. Started. I break Roddick in the second set. But only one long points, that's it. And then I can play few, like four or five point I can lose. I don't know with him, but maybe something problem with me, maybe. I don't know. But I want to check.

NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: Yeah. Because if I take break about like for one, for two minutes, then first two, three points was okay. I can play. I can control everything. But then something is coming, coming so bad and then feeling everything really not so good.

NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: It was -- is something like was for asthma. Was doping, yeah. He give me something like for the match maybe helping something, but this was not so helping.

NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: No, no, I never get.

NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: No, no, no. Just one problem maybe is for me I start to play -- okay, I say I have good tennis now. Just preparation, and fifth match. But I don't know. Weather was really hot today, yeah? I don't know, Roddick feeling okay. For him I see he make short everything, good points, long, short points, he make -- he get better some feeling from body. For me, today was difficult. Because I play not with Roddick today, I play by self, I play with weather. Just only like these points. I didn't concentration now of match. I now concentration of my body, how I feeling, what I do, and what I need to do later.

NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: Yeah. Because doctor said it was the heat.

NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: Yeah, if the degrees not like today, like maybe till 30, is be better for me because it was today for me hot.

NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: Not like problem. But sometimes if very hot, you can't play long points, yeah? You try to play short points because is really hot. You can't run so good. And then like today was, yeah, we try to do short points. From Roddick was okay. He make from serve, make like -- try to do short points, just on the serve, yeah, make aces, and then hitting balls, second serve, then try to make winners, yeah? For me was also, I want to try to do the same, but this was difficult.