5 Oct 2013

Tokyo, Japan

I lost against Dodig 6-2, 7-6(3) today. I got a slow start and because Ivan was playing really well, it wasn't easy to get in to the match. I missed many shots by an inch but I just kept missing them for the first half of the set. From the end of the first set I played well. It was still not quite enough to win the second set, Dodig played with such a high quality today.

There was a lot of great tennis from both of us after I started to play also well in the end of the first set. I give full credit to Ivan, he played very top level tennis today from the beginning to the end and he deserved to win. If he can continue playing like that, he can go all the way.