Tenisista rosyjski, urodzony na Ukrainie w 1981 roku. Od 3 lat znajduje się w ścisłej czołówce rankingu ATP. Sezon 2006 zakończył na znakomitym 3 miejscu rankingu Entry.
Zwycięzca Pucharu Davisa i 14 zawodowych turniejów ATP, w tym 2 Mastersów (Miami08 i Paryż06).
2003--Adelaide, Estoril
2004--Munich, Moscow
2005--St. Poelten
2006--Poertschach, Sopot, New Haven, Moscow, ATP Masters Series Paris
2007--Moscow
2008--ATP Masters Series Miami, Poertschach, Warsaw
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Kiedy tak patrze na Posępnego to roztacza się przede mną taki pozytywny widok. Wtedy uświadamiam sobie, jak wiele można osiągnąć bardzo ciężką pracą, to niesamowite.
Kolia to zawodnik mało lubiany, ale z pewnością swoim podejściem do tenisa zyskał szacunek wielu ludzi.
Szanuję go za ogromną pracowitośc, determinację w dążeniu do celu i " charakternośc". Pod względem atrakcyjności medialnej i tenisowej plasuje się na jednej z ostatnich pozycji, ale ma to, czego brakuje wielu zawodnikom, bijących go talentem o głowę. Ma przysłowiowe "jaja" i wie po co wychodzi na kort.
Czy ja wiem czy rzeczywiscie ma te "jaja" ? U Davydenki czesto w waznych momentach szwankuje psychika, smierc w oczach, nogi z waty. Wiele razy zdarzalo sie ze nie potrafil sie opanowac i dobic rywala. Obecnie Rosjanin znajduje sie na rowni pochyłej i podejrzewam ze tegoroczne zwyciestwo w Miami pozostanie juz do konca kariery jego najwiekszym sukcesem.
Może inaczej, Nikolaj ma ogromną motywacje do pracy i temu zawdzięcza swoje sukcesy. Wypracował sposób gry niszczycielski dla słabszych zawodników, którzy nie są w stanie wytrzymać jego tempa gry. Natomiast w pojedynkach z czołowymi zawodnikami wychodza przede wszystkim braki w podstawowym wyszkoleniu technicznym Rosjanina(zwłaszcza wolej), co z kolei powodu u u niego wielką nerwowość i niepewność. Najlepiej widać to w meczach z Fedem, Nico kilka kilka razy dobrze zaczynał pojedynki, grał swój tenis, goniąc Szwajcara kątowymi zagraniami.
Wtedy przyciśnięty Roger zaczynał zagraniami technicznymi prowokować sytuacje, w których Davydenko był ośmieszany, wychodziły wszystkie jego braki; potem, kiedy przychodziło do ważnych piłek, Denko był już sztywny z nerwów i Fed robił, co chciał.
Bizon napisał:
Czy ja wiem czy rzeczywiscie ma te "jaja" ? U Davydenki czesto w waznych momentach szwankuje psychika, smierc w oczach, nogi z waty. Wiele razy zdarzalo sie ze nie potrafil sie opanowac i dobic rywala. Obecnie Rosjanin znajduje sie na rowni pochyłej i podejrzewam ze tegoroczne zwyciestwo w Miami pozostanie juz do konca kariery jego najwiekszym sukcesem.
W większości meczy właśnie zachowywał "chłodną głowę", zwłaszcza w starciu z rywalami równymi sobie. Dlatego tak daleko zaszedł. Ludzie się naoglądali 1/2 RG 07 z Fedem i na tej podstawie budują tak krzywdzące opinie o psychice Koliusza. Zresztą 2008 rok, choć słabszy od poprzednich pokazuje, jak Rosjanin potrafi udźwignąć presję i wykorzystać najmniejsze niedociągnięcia fizyczne rywali. Miazga, jaką zrobił z Nadala w finale Miami nigdy nie wyleci mi z pamięci :P, a 1/2 z Murrayem w TMC 08 to także nie była łatwa sztuka. Wiedzieć o zmęczeniu przeciwnika trudami meczu to jedno, a podołać psychicznie i umieć to wykorzystać to drugie. Ostatni finał AO pokazał dobitnie, że nie wszyscy to potrafią :D
Co do Miami 08 to uważam, żę Davydenkę stać na wiele więcej. O ile początkowo przecierałem oczy ze zdumienia i nie mogłem zrozumieć jakim cudem zawędrował na 3 miejsce na świecie, o tyle, im częściej widzę go w formie, tym mocniej przychylam się do opinii, że chociaż 1 finał WS powinien się znaleźć na jego koncie. Skoro Clement czy Schuettler tam byli, to dlaczego nie Kola ?
To są uroki sportu, ilu zawodników teoretycznie zasługuje na tytuł a jednak go nie zdobywa, a ile wygrywa turnieje dzięki szczęściu i zbiegom okoliczności. Według mnie Denko nie osiągnął finału WS, bo czegoś zawsze w tej grze brakuje. Przecież nie trafiał w każdym turnieju Wielkoszlemowym na Feda w połówce, nawet wtedy gdy Nadal jeszcze nie błyszczał na szybkich nawierzchniach. W krótszych turniejach potrafi zagrać znakomicie(Miami,Paryż), jednak okazuje się, że na tym najwyższym szczeblu turniejowym Rosjanin nie umie do końca wytrzymać presji związanej z rangą spotkania oraz kto wie, może też aspekt fizyczny, nie zawsze musi być tak, że jeżeli dany zawodnik czuje się przemęczony to widać to jak na dłoni podczas meczu.
DUN I LOVE napisał:
Co do Miami 08 to uważam, żę Davydenkę stać na wiele więcej. O ile początkowo przecierałem oczy ze zdumienia i nie mogłem zrozumieć jakim cudem zawędrował na 3 miejsce na świecie, o tyle, im częściej widzę go w formie, tym mocniej przychylam się do opinii, że chociaż 1 finał WS powinien się znaleźć na jego koncie. Skoro Clement czy Schuettler tam byli, to dlaczego nie Kola ?
Nie mogę w tym miejscu nie zapytać: to dlaczego nie James? :P
Robertinho napisał:
Nie mogę w tym miejscu nie zapytać: to dlaczego nie James? :P
Bo jak się marzy o finale WS to najpierw trzeba 1/2 zrobić :D
Co do Denki to zgadzam się z FEX-em (fajny skrót ? :D :P), że Kola miał tego pecha, że zawsze było kilku lepszych. Jak już zaczął ich ogrywać to była inna grupa, "nowych" będących poza zasięgiem.
z tym laniem to bez przesady, H2H brzmi 4-4, a dwa ostatnie zwycięstwa Denki to było ogranie zdechłego Szkociny który się chwiał na nogach.
Sprawdziłem bilans i dlatego wywaliłem. :P Mnie utkwił w pamięci mecz na USO i zdychajacy Ryży. :P A padniętego rywala też trzeba umieć dobić. :]
WYGRANE TURNIEJE:
#1) Adelaide 2003
R32 Irakli Labadze (GEO) 6-2, 7-6(5)
R16 Ivan Ljubicic (CRO) 4-6, 6-4, 7-6(9)
Q Mariano Zabaleta (ARG) 7-6(3), 6-1
S Adrian Voinea (ROU) 6-2, 6-1
W Kristof Vliegen (BEL) 6-2, 7-6(3)
#2) Estoril 2003
R32 Sjeng Schalken (NED) 6-3, 6-2
R16 Alexander Waske (GER) 6-3, 7-6(3)
Q Yevgeny Kafelnikov (RUS) 6-2, 6-4
S Max Mirnyi (BLR) 6-4, 3-6, 6-3
W Agustin Calleri (ARG) 6-4, 6-3
#3) Monachium 2004
R32 Andrei Pavel (ROU) 7-6(3), 6-4
R16 Victor Hanescu (ROU) 6-7(6), 6-2, 6-4
Q Rainer Schuettler (GER) 6-1, 7-6(4)
S Luis Horna (PER) 6-4, 6-1
W Martin Verkerk (NED) 6-4, 7-5
#4) Moskwa 2004
R32 Sergiy Stakhovsky (UKR) 6-0, 6-3
R16 Sargis Sargsian (ARM) 6-2, 6-4
Q Radek Stepanek (CZE) 7-6(2), 5-7, 6-1
S Mikhail Youzhny (RUS) 7-5, 6-7(5), 7-5
W Greg Rusedski (GBR) 3-6, 6-3, 7-5
#5) St.Poelten 2005
R32 Michal Mertinak (SVK) 6-3, 6-2
R16 Sjeng Schalken (NED) 6-3, 6-1
Q Felix Mantilla (ESP) 6-3, 7-5
S Jose Acasuso (ARG) 6-4, 6-2
W Jurgen Melzer (AUT) 6-3, 2-6, 6-4
#6) Poertschach 2006
R32 Tomas Zib (CZE) 6-3, 6-0
R16 Ruben Ramirez Hidalgo (ESP) 6-2, 6-4
Q Potito Starace (ITA) 6-2, 6-1
S Jiri Novak (CZE) 6-2, 6-2
W Andrei Pavel (ROU) 6-0, 6-3
#7) Sopot 2006
R32 Christophe Rochus (BEL) 6-1, 6-2
R16 Juan Monaco (ARG) 7-5, 6-7(7), 6-1
Q Carlos Berlocq (ARG) 6-0, 6-4
S Filippo Volandri (ITA) 6-2, 6-4
W Florian Mayer (GER) 7-6(6), 5-7, 6-4
#8 ) New Haven 2006
R64 Bye
R32 Arnaud Clement (FRA) 6-2, 6-1
R16 Paradorn Srichaphan (THA) 6-4, 6-1
Q Olivier Rochus (BEL) 6-4, 6-2
S Robin Soderling (SWE) 7-6(6), 6-2
W Agustin Calleri (ARG) 6-4, 6-3
#9) Moskwa 2006
R32 Jiri Vanek (CZE) 6-0, 6-0
R16 Teimuraz Gabashvili (RUS) 6-4, 6-2
Q Max Mirnyi (BLR) 6-3, 7-5
S Fabrice Santoro (FRA) 6-4, 6-1
W Marat Safin (RUS) 6-4, 5-7, 6-4
#10) TMS Paryż-Bercy 2006
R64 Bye
R32 Christophe Rochus (BEL) 6-0, 6-0
R16 Dmitry Tursunov (RUS) 6-2, 6-2
Q Mario Ancic (CRO) 6-3, 6-3
S Tommy Robredo (ESP) 6-3, 5-7, 6-2
W Dominik Hrbaty (SVK) 6-1, 6-2, 6-2
#11) Moskwa 2007
R32 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (FRA) 7-6, 6-2
R16 Nicolas Lapentti (ECU) 6-4, 6-4
Q Igor Andreev (RUS) 7-5, 7-5
S Janko Tipsarevic (SRB) 7-6(6), 6-1
W Paul-Henri Mathieu (FRA) 7-5, 7-6(9)
#12) TMS Miami 2008
R128 Bye
R64 Ernests Gulbis (LAT) 3-6, 7-6(6), 7-6(3)
R32 Simone Bolelli (ITA) 6-7(5), 7-5, 6-1
R16 Mario Ancic (CRO) 4-6, 6-3, 7-5
Q Janko Tipsarevic (SRB) 6-2, 6-1
S Andy Roddick (USA) 7-6(5), 6-2
W Rafael Nadal (ESP) 6-4, 6-2
#13) Poertschach 2008
R32 Rainer Eitzinger (AUT) 6-1, 6-1
R16 John Isner (USA) 6-2, 6-7(6), 6-3
Q Andreas Seppi (ITA) 6-3, 1-6, 6-3
S Igor Kunitsyn (RUS) 6-3, 6-2
W Juan Monaco (ARG) 6-2, 2-6, 6-2
#14) Warszawa 2008
R32 Pablo Cuevas (URU) 6-3, 6-2
R16 Jiri Vanek (CZE) 4-6, 7-5, 6-1
Q Evgeny Korolev (RUS) 6-4, 6-2
S Fabio Fognini (ITA) 6-2, 6-3
W Tommy Robredo (ESP) 6-3, 6-3
#15) Hamburg 2009
R64 Bye
R32 Philipp Petzschner (GER) 6-3, 6-2
R16 Jeremy Chardy (FRA) 6-3, 6-3
Q Victor Hanescu (ROU) 6-3, 4-6, 6-3
S David Ferrer (ESP) 7-5, 7-6(2)
W Paul-Henri Mathieu (FRA) 6-4, 6-2
#16) Umag 2009
R32 D.Gimeno-Traver 6/2 6/2
R16 A.Martin 6/2 6/3
QF S.Bolelli 7/6 6/1
SF J.Melzer 6/1 6/1
W J.C.Ferrero(5) 6/3 6/0
Tak z angielska: Impressive Performance
#17) Kuala Lumpur 2009
1R BYE
2R Dent 63 76
QF Monfils 63 63
SF Soderling 16 76 62
F Verdasco 64 75
Dla mnie oglądanie meczu z tym zawdonikiem po jednej stronie kortu jest męczarnią, nie cierpię tego zawodnika i to się już nie zmieni, niejednokrotnie zdarzało mi się usnąć na jego meczach, mam nadzieję że tak razem z Simonem wylecą z top 10
# 18) TMS Szanghaj 2009
R1 BYE
R2 Kunicyn 6-4 6-2
R3 Gonzalez 6-3 7-5
1/4 Stepanek 6-1 4-6 6-1
1/2 Djoković 4-6 6-4 7-6
F Nadal 7-6 6-3
Ale grajków ogolił :D
October 18, 2009 - Charlie says bravo; Davydenko wins
By Charles Bricker
Nikolay Davydenko gets a lot of bad press from those who still believe he was somehow involved in a betting scandal a couple years ago in Sopot, Poland. But I'm not one of those and I'm delighted to see him win his 18th title today in a masterfully executed 7-6 (3), 6-3 win over Rafa Nadal.
There was already enough drama in this match when Nadal challenged on the final point of this championship and we all had to wait to see whether Nadal's backhand was on or behind Davydenko's baseline.
The Hawk-eye replay kicked in, the white line tracing the path of the ball blooped up and came down an inch behind the line. Finally, time for Davydenko to rejoice.
This was only his 62nd match of the year. "Only?" you're saying. That is the correct word when you consider how much the little guy has been over-playing the last few years. In 2006 he played 98 singles matches, a figure challenged only by Roger Federer, who played fewer tournaments but went, of course, consistently deeper into draws.
In 2007, Davydenko played 84 matches, then 77 last year. It's still bordering on too much for a guy who weighs about 150 pounds. When he injured his heel early this year and had to withdraw from the Aussie Open (snapping a streak of 29 consecutive appearances in majors), I felt only a bit badly for him. I also knew that this could be a blessing -- a chance for him to get off the court a bit and ease off his schedule.
And that has worked for him. Although he also missed Indian Wells and could not return to defend his Key Biscayne championship, his strapped his game together on clay right after Wimbledon, winning consecutive titles at Hamburg and Umag and, on the weight of that nice little run, is 29-5 in his last 34 matches.
This win will do all sorts of wondrous things for Nikolay:
* Although it looks as if he'll stay at No. 8 in the rankings, he's going to move into No. 7 in the race to the ATP Championships in London, the big-money end-of-the-season tournament for the top eight players of the year, and he now has a 420-point cushion over Fernando Verdasco, which means he's virtually into the Masters Cup for the fifth year in a row. He was runner-up last year.
* It gives him an 18th ATP title and he's now 18-5 in finals. When the money is on the table, he's up to the task.
* His back-to-back wins over Novak Djokovic in the semis and Nadal in the final make him 2-2 lifetime with Nole and 3-4 with Nadal. He's also 4-5 with Andy Murray. If only he had the formula for beating Federer, against whom he's 0-12.
His English is evolving. . .slowly. And for many, despite his complete exoneration by the ATP, he'll have to carry the stain of that betting investigation with too many pre-judging skeptics. Frankly, I always had a hard time buying into his alleged culpability.
He was some 80 ranking spots in front of his opponent that day, Martin Vassallo Arguello, but lost on a retirement in the third set in a match in which there was an extraordinary amount of money bet on the Argentine. All that sounded incriminating, but it was purely circumstantial.
On the other side of the issue, we're talking about a player who makes a few million dollars every year and does not, evidently, live an extravagant lifestyle. So why does he need to throw a match? Furthermore, it was common knowledge among people who follow the game that Nikolay had an injury at the time of that match, so it was no shock that he retired in the third set.
I've heard people suggest that he had fallen under the influence of the Russia mafia -- another ridiculous allegation. He was, I should point out, living in Germany at that time, not Russia. The year of the investigation, I caught up with him in New Haven, Conn., just before the U.S. Open and we talked about the silly Russian mafia claim.
"Why no one ever ask Italian players about Italian mafia," he said in his halting English. He smiled. I laughed. I thought that was not only amusing but on target. As everyone knows by now, the ATP went through a months-long investigation, holding it over Davydenko's head even as he played Grand Slam tournaments, and what kind of a distraction could that have been?
Finally, he was cleared. At least with most of us.
I love watching this guy play. "The Stroke Machine," I call him. And he was certainly that against Nadal, finishing long rallies with the Spaniard with backhands down the line that left Rafa frozen. He seems tireless right now, able to run for hours. I'd like to think that has a lot to do with his cut-back schedule. Hopefully, he's learned from this year that he doesn't have to play 80 or mare matches every season.
This was an awfully big tournament for him, whipping up on Djoko and Nadal -- a great confidence builder and a signal to everyone else that his game is back in high form. After a few down months he's once again a major force in men's tennis.
BG On Davydenko
Nikolay Davydenko doesn't have the flair of Federer, the ferocity of Nadal or the finesse of Murray, but the 28-year-old Russian spent last week in Shanghai solidifying his status as one of the world's elite players.
At a slight, 5-foot-10, 154-pounds, Davydenko looked as imposing as a man who spent training time bench-pressing Q-Tips as he stood next to 6-1, 188-pound Rafael Nadal prior to Sunday's Shanghai Masters final. Powered by tremendous timing, taut technique and the ability to change direction and drive the ball down the line
off both wings, Davydenko dissected Nadal, 7-6(3), 6-3, in two hours, two minutes to claim his fourth tournament title in the past four months.
Davydenko has finished in the top five for the four consecutive years, he has won at least one ATP title for seven straight years, he's closing in on qualifying for the season-ending ATP Tour Finals for a fifth straight season and he is 4-0 in finals this season.
What makes the most underrated player in men's tennis tick and what does his Shanghai success mean for the rest of the season?
Tennis Week blogger Brad Gilbert has watched Davydenko throughout his pro career and says the Russian is playing his most ambitious tennis now.
"He is playing as offensive-minded as I have ever seen him and he is one of the biggest hitters off of both sides on tour, which is even more extraordinary considering he is so slightly built," Brad writes in his latest BG Unplugged blog. "With this win it puts him almost in a locked position to make the year-end championship, which will be the fifth year in a row he qualifies for the season-ending event. The only other active players to accomplish this are Fed, Nadal and Roddick."
How will history judge Nikolay Davydenko?
Maybe you expected it, but if you didn't, no worries: I'll bet you're like about 95 percent of the tennis fans out there!
I'm referring to Nikolay Davydenko winning one of the ATP Tour's biggest stops, the Shanghai Masters. He followed up his near-classic semifinal win over Novak Djokovic with a straight-set defeat of Rafael Nadal, the top seed. This is Davydenko's fourth title of the season, all coming post-Wimbledon. I wonder if his legs are a little fresher after being sidelined in the early part of the year? (I still vote "no" on a shorter season!) But there I go again, making excuses for a Davydenko win.
You see, he regularly slips under my radar (and I don't think I'm the only one: Check out this posting at Tennis From Beyond the Baseline on that). But the fact of the matter is this: The dude can ball. Great strokes and excellent footspeed help him seriously grind down his opponents. I think he can open up a point in the middle of a rally almost as good as anyone out there.
Here's the thing, though: Why hasn't he won a Slam, or even made a Slam final.
It seems luck, mainly bad for him, has a lot to do with it. Aside from the loss to Mariano Puerta in 2005 at the French, his other pre-final runs at Majors have been ended by someone named Roger Federer. I thought this year at the French after Nadal lost that he was going to be the guy to make it to the finals from that side, but Robin Soderling blasted him.
Also, I used to have the idea that Tommy Haas was the best player in the Open era to never make a Slam final, mainly because of his career-high number-two ranking. Now I'm not so sure. Davydenko's gotten as high as number three and could realistically end his career with 30 titiles (more than two probable Hall of Famers, countrymen Yevgeny Kafelnikov and Marat Safin). If there's nary a Slam final on his resume, where does that leave him and his legacy in the game?
I guess as just a footnote, if that.
http://www.tennistalkanyone.com/2009/10 … kolay.html
Denko drugiej strony u nas się dorobił. Ileż musiał wygrać, by dostąpić tego niewątpliwego zaszczytu :D
Dziś mijają trzy lata od pierwszego triumfu w Mastersie i awansu na 3 pozycję rankingu światowego przez Nikolaya Davydenkę
2006 - Nikolay Davydenko of Russia crushes Slovakia’s Dominik Hrbaty 6-1, 6-2, 6-2 in 1 hour, 38 minutes to win the BNP Paribas Masters in Paris and the biggest title of his career. The victory vaults Davydenko to the No. 3 world ranking, behind Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal, who both withdrew from the event with injures. Says Davydenko, "This is amazing. Winning a Masters Series for the first time is important and being number three in the world behind players such as Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal is quite an achievement."
Davydenko presser - I'm not Safin
NIKOLAY Davydenko: Wow, so many guys coming now after semis (smiling).
Q. So you finally did it. You made it. How did you do it?
NIKOLAY Davydenko: I think that's what everybody wanting asking.
Yeah, I think all my family, everybody who support me, wait for this moment, you know, when I can beat Federer, because I beat everyone in top 10 except Federer.
Yeah, I was thinking it coming maybe 2010 or '11. But in 2009, end of the season, it's good feeling.
Q. Do you think it will be easier for you to find a sponsor now, racquet sponsor? Prince perhaps?
NIKOLAY Davydenko: It's no problem to find racquet sponsor. It's a problem play with these racquets. Because I can find sponsor. Doesn't matter, in other racquets. But if I can play like this today with other racquets, I don't know, maybe not.
That's for me it's important how I play first, not about money, how much pay for me another company. Then I losing everything, out from top 10, and then disappointment about this.
Q. There was another player of the past who was Vitas Gerulaitis.
NIKOLAY Davydenko: I was just start to thinking (smiling).
Q. You were a kid. But anyhow, he was beaten 17 times by other player called Connors.
NIKOLAY Davydenko: This guy I know.
Q. Vitas was a friend of mine. I asked him, Can you play another match? Do you think you have a chance? Gerulaitis say no. Beaten before you come to the court. You were beaten 12 times. What was your mind coming on to the court?
NIKOLAY Davydenko: Really don't think about anything. Just think about, Okay, I losing, tomorrow go home, next day already Maldives. That's really my mind. Really don't care. I have no pressure.
I know I was play good. I was thinking today I want to show the same like confidence like yesterday, because I won yesterday and I really feel good. That's was happen. It really happen, my fourth match, play very well.
Q. Did you do anything different with your strategy today to the other 12 times?
NIKOLAY Davydenko: I don't know, not really. I know always play -- was for me tough play against slice against Roger. He have very good slice, and then fast backhand topspin. After slice, he play very well backhand, forehand. He have really not so many chance to make winners for me.
What I did, couple volley, some serve, and then some return, 7-5 in the third (smiling).
Q. I remember talking to you during the US Open and you said your confidence at the moment was very low. It was the match before Soderling. Talk about how your game has developed the last couple months, where it's standing right now?
NIKOLAY Davydenko: Well, you speak so interesting English, I didn't understand a word.
THE MODERATOR: How has your game developed over the last three months?
NIKOLAY Davydenko: Okay, now I understand, translate ATP.
After US Open, I was coming in, indoor season, practicing like preparation for indoor. Winning Kuala Lumpur. Play very well Asia. Like, okay, I lost in Beijing against Cilic, but Cilic play very well. Won Shanghai. Then come back to Europe, play also good, like Valencia semifinal. Okay, losing against Soderling in three sets Paris Bercy. Every tournament, like all five, six weeks, I show my good tennis, you know.
Now again coming here in London, all matches, like every match, I play well. That's was I am surprising myself, you know, how I do so long every week, play well, good constants [sic], and good concentration for every match.
Q. You look so happy, Nikolay. I wonder if you feel like this win is nearly better than winning the tournament?
NIKOLAY Davydenko: Maybe because beat Federer, yeah, then I know I beat everyone in top 10. That's was is good feeling, really good feeling. I don't think, Now I'm No. 1 because I beat Federer. But I know now in confidence, if I beat everyone, then I can play very well. Then feeling, Why not?
Like if I come to the match, play against No. 1, No. 2, No. 3 in the world, I have chance. Is not like before match I feeling, Okay, I have 10% chance to win, and try to win. But now I was feeling, Yes, I can win match against these guys.
That's was really good confidence for sure for next year.
Q. If you play the final against Del Potro, what kind of match do you expect? What do you think about Del Potro?
NIKOLAY Davydenko: Del Potro, nice guy. You know, we talking together, practicing together sometimes. He's baseline player, for sure. I remember last match in Shanghai last year, baseline. Little bit change. He start to play faster, better serve.
I don't know how he play today. I don't want to say now tomorrow I play against Del Potro. I would like to play against Del Potro tomorrow. But for sure, yesterday, Soderling show me very good tennis, and I really don't know who can win today.
Q. Is Soderling also a nice guy? And would you prefer playing him, since you beat him yesterday?
NIKOLAY Davydenko: Soderling maybe nice guy. I don't speak with him so much, you know. I don't know. I have not so many contact with Sweden. But I know is not like say I'm scared against like Soderling. I know is difficult play against him. I lost many times three sets, and won in this year two times in three sets.
For sure every match against Soderling very difficult, very tough. That's was I don't really know results, what's gonna happen.
Q. You only had 15 hours before last night and today's match. How do you feel physically ahead of one more match with three sets today?
NIKOLAY Davydenko: I was tired, really tired. Between yesterday and today, I was feeling, like I say, moving little bit slow. If you don't see, it's okay. But I was feeling concentration not like every match, like every game or every point hundred percent.
We'll see tomorrow. Now I have little bit more time. For sure I want recovery hundred percent. I hope tomorrow I be fit, you know, for the final.
Q. At what time did you go to sleep yesterday?
NIKOLAY Davydenko: At 3. Because I was coming at 1, do massage, one and a half hour. But if you see, I play three times the night session. That was always the same time I go to sleep. Today I sleep just seven hours, but feeling okay really. Seven hours was enough.
Q. Sleeping alone?
NIKOLAY Davydenko: Come on. I have wife. Come on, come on. What do you want, two girls, three girls, four girls?
Q. You are a Russian.
NIKOLAY Davydenko: I came Russian, but I'm not Safin (smiling).
Q. Five years in a row in the top five. Great continuity. Today is probably your best win ever. Do you still remember the bad times, two years ago, all the trouble you had with the ATP, all the stories? Is it something that you're happy about, nobody is talking about it anymore? What is your reaction to that? They were difficult times for you, no?
NIKOLAY Davydenko: Because I'm really surprising how with this difficult time I made good result, you know? Because I really know it staying always in your mind, and you stay under pressure for the press, for the fans, for the people everywhere in the world. And everywhere, if I coming for tournament, press start to asking me about betting and everything stuff.
Every tournament what I played, it was very tough to play. I would like, you know, stop tennis for couple months, don't want to play. But really, I don't know, maybe I have good coach, my family really support me, give me, you know, chance, you know, just forget everything, really concentration just for the tennis, try forget very quickly everything.
That's was I did good result. I remember in America, US Open, semifinal, everything, come back. Maybe my Russian mental is very tough.
Q. Could you explain what was going through your mind when Roger pulled off the shot when you were serving at 4-5 in the third set, when you made the smash, he smashed it from the baseline? What were your thoughts at that moment?
NIKOLAY Davydenko: Yeah, like I say after Love-30, I was thinking, Federer again lucky. In 12 times he beat me. Now again in this point. Yeah, I was thinking, Not again, please. Again I can lose 6-4 in the third set.
But winning, you know, first point, then again I come back better concentration. Then I start to be lucky.
Tenis - London Masters Cup
Dawidienko zdetronizował króla Federera!
Roger Federer nie wygra World Tour Finals. Lider światowych rankingów, który cały sezon też zakończy na tronie, w Londynie znalazł pogromcę. W półfinale w trzech setach szwajcarskiego króla zdetronizował Rosjanin Nikołaj Dawidienko, wygrywając 6:2, 4:6, 7:5.
W poprzednich 12 meczach z Federerem Rosjanin zawsze schodził z kortu ze zwieszoną głową. Na powtórkę zanosiło się też w londyńskiej O2 Arenie, ale tym razem Dawidienko wszedł na szczyt swoich możliwości. Pokazał też stalowe nerwy i po raz pierwszy w karierze pokonał Rogera Federera.
Rosjanin urwał się wręcz ze stryczka, bo w decydującym secie Federer prowadził 5:4 i był dwie piłki od finału. Dawidienko wyszedł cało z opresji, w kolejnym gemie przełamał Federera, a całość przypieczętował wygraniem partii przy swoim podaniu.
Żelazne nerwy szły w parze z żelazną kondycją, bo Dawidienko po ostatnim meczu w grupie miał tylko 14 godzin odpoczynku. Nie wykazywał jednak oznak zmęczenia, a po ostatniej piłce sprawiał nawet wrażenie człowieka wypoczętego.
Dawidienko sięgnął w tym meczu do swoich najgłębszych pokładów energii, bo ma patent na turnieje mistrzowskie. Do finału tej imprezy wskoczył drugi raz z rzędu. Tegoroczny awans ma jednak wyjątkowy smak. Ograł najlepszego tenisistę na świecie, który jest w stanie pokonać każdego. Triumf nad Szwajcarem 17-tysięczna publiczność nagrodziła owacją na stojąco.
Bardzo trafny tytuł, ciekawe w jaki sposób go zdetronizował, bo ani nie odebrał prowadzenia w rankingu, ani też Fed nie bronił tytułu.
Fed-Expresso napisał:
Bardzo trafny tytuł, ciekawe w jaki sposób go zdetronizował, bo ani nie odebrał prowadzenia w rankingu, ani też Fed nie bronił tytułu.
Racja, chociaż tytuł w pewnym sensie trafny,mam na myśli słówko przed "Rogera" :D
#19) World Tour Finals 2009
Spotkania w grupie:
N Djokovic (SRB) d N Davydenko (RUS) 36 64 75
N Davydenko (RUS) d R Nadal (ESP) 61 76(4)
N Davydenko (RUS) d R Soderling (SWE) 76(4) 46 63
Półfinał:
N Davydenko (RUS) d R Federer (SUI) 62 46 75
Finał:
N Davydenko (RUS) d J Del Potro (ARG) 63 64
Do tej pory nie było mu dane wygrać turnieju WS, ale ten sukces to znakomite wynagrodzenie za ciężką pracę. Brawo!
Dawidienko mistrzem ATP World Tour Finals!!!
Niemal perfekcyjny Rosjanin Nikołaj Dawidienko ograł w finale ATP World Tour Finals Argentyńczyka Juana Martina Del Potro 6:3, 6:4.
Wszyscy kibice czekający na finał zawodów w Londynie mogli się czuć trochę zawiedzeni. Głównie za sprawą tego, że Juan Martin Del Potro nie był w niedzielne popołudnie dobrze dysponowany. Jego gra wyglądała nieźle tylko przez chwilę w drugiej partii, ale niewykluczone, że stało się tak, bo Nikołaj Dawidienko mu na to pozwolił. Przy stanie 4:4 w decydującym secie Rosjanin powiedział sobie, "no dobra, czas kończyć" i w jednej chwili tak podkręcił tempo, że mecz szybko się skończył, a zmęczonemu Juanowi Martinowi Del Potro zabrakło argumentów, by mu przeszkodzić.
Dawidienko od samego początku był zdecydowanie aktywniejszy w grze ofensywnej. Grał bardzo precyzyjnie. Piłka się go słuchała, a kiedy tak było, Del Potro biegał od lewej do prawej i prawie każda wymiana kończyła się zdobyciem punktu przez rosyjskiego tenisistę.
Z kolei Juan Martin Del Potro poza mocnym serwisem pomysłu na rywala nie miał żadnego. W przekroju całego spotkania grał bardziej defensywnie. Kiedy zauważył, że Dawidienko rozrzuca piłkę z komputerową precyzją, skoncentrował się na przebijaniu, co często kończyło się tym, że jego zagrania lądowały w siatce. Można było odnieść wrażenie, że Argentyńczyk nie wierzył w to, że ogra przeciwnika, a w przerwach siedział ze zwieszoną głową.
Del Potro miał okres lepszej gry w drugiej partii, ale w dziewiątym gemie Nikołaj Dawidienko nagle wrzucił szósty bieg i odjechał po puchar World Tour Finals. Dla 28-letniego Rosjanina to największe osiągnięcie w karierze. - Dla mnie było niesamowitą rzeczą przyjechać jako siódmy zawodnik i wygrać. Sam jestem tym zaskoczony - powiedział na korcie Nikołaj Dawidienko.
Davydenko Caps Dream Week With Victory Over del Potro
ATP World Tour No. 7 Nikolay Davydenko capped a dream week Sunday as he defeated Juan Martin del Potro 6-3, 6-4 to capture the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals trophy at The O2 in south-east London.
Davydenko, who finished runner-up to Novak Djokovic at the season finale in Shanghai last year, is the first Russian to win the year-end title in tournament history (since 1970). His efforts this week see him rewarded with $1,150,000 in prize money; he will also overtake Andy Roddick at No. 6 in the South African Airways 2009 ATP Rankings.
En route to winning the biggest tournament of his career, Davydenko has defeated the winners of all four Grand Slam titles in 2009 – beating Australian Open champion Rafael Nadal in the round-robin stage, overturning a 0-12 record against Roland Garros and Wimbledon champion Roger Federer in the semi-finals and defeating US Open champion del Potro for the title.
Marat skończony, teraz ja
- Mam nadzieję, że teraz Marat jest skończony i wszyscy [w Rosji] będą kibicować mi - powiedział Nikołaj Dawidienko po zwycięstwie nad Juanem Martinem Del Potro w finale ATP World Tour Finals.
Nikołaj Dawidienko wygrał bez większych problemów finałowy pojedynek do trzech w pierwszym secie i do czterech w drugim. Rosjanin wierzy, że po tym sukcesie kibice w kraju w końcu będą go bardziej wspierać. - Mam nadzieję, że teraz stanę się sławny w Rosji. Jest to dla mnie bardzo ważne - powiedział Dawidienko. - Byłem zawsze rozczarowany, kiedy grałem przeciwko Maratowi, a 80 procent kibiców dopingowało właśnie jego, Mam nadzieję, że teraz Marat jest skończony, a fani będą wspierać mnie - dodał.
Po sezonie rosyjski zawodnik zamierza odpocząć na Malediwach. Zarobione w Londynie pieniądze być może wyda na kupno apartamentu w Moskwie, o którym od dawna marzył.
Czy to nie aby kolejny popis naszych pismaków, tak jak z tą rozmową Feda z Portkiem po meczu?
"I hope now Marat is finished everybody supports me.":lol:
http://eurosport.yahoo.com/29112009/2/d … light.html
Nie sądzę, aby miał na myśli to co redakcja ES.pl próbuje nam sprzedać. Trzeźwo myślący człowiek chyba zdaje sobie sprawę, że Denko miał na myśli, to, że teraz, kiedy Marat zszedł ze sceny, Rosjanie przerzucą swoją sympatię na Mistrz WTF2009.
Btw, Davydenko to pierwszy rosyjski Mistrz Turnieju Mistrzów w historii dyscypliny.
Pewnie tak. Ale chyba powinien wyrażać się precyzyjniej, żeby nie dochodziło do nadinterpretacji jego słów.
http://www.sportowefakty.pl/tenis/2009/ … -arsenalu/
Dawidienko wzoruje się na piłkarzach Arsenalu
Nikołaj Dawidienko, nowa rakieta nr 6 na świecie, w niedzielę osiągnął największy sukces w karierze, wygrywając turniej Masters w Londynie. Przyznał, że trenuje tylko godzinę dziennie. Jak piłkarze Arsenalu.
Nadzieję wiąże Dawidienko z byciem... sławnym. - W tym tygodniu nie rozdałem wcześniej ani jednego autografu - przyznaje. - Może to dlatego, że wszyscy koncentrowali się na Federerze i Nadalu. Nie chciałbym być jednak tak sławni jak oni. Zawsze chcę mieszkać w innym hotelu niż Federer. Jest ciszej, mogę spędzić więcej czasu z rodziną. Chciałbym jednak być o odrobinę bardziej rozpoznawany, tutaj w Londynie - mówi.
Mieszka w Wołgogradzie. - Mam nadzieję, że po tym turnieju zostanę bardziej sławny w Rosji. To dla mnie naprawdę ważne. Wiem, jak często zawodziłem rodaków, szczególnie w Moskwie. Gdy grałem przeciw Safinowi, 80% publiczności było za nim. To z kolei wielki zawód dla mnie, choć wiem, że on w tym sezonie żegnał się z tenisem - mówi.
Co jest lepsze: pokonać Federera czy wygrać Masters? - Z pewnością to drugie - przyznaje. Jest odpowiedzią na tenis siłowy potężnie serwujących rywali. Sam (waży 68 kg) doskonali przede wszystkich odbiór, choć zdradził, że przez ostatnich kilka lat spędzał na treningu ledwie po dwie godziny dziennie.
- Przez ostatnich kilka lat trenowałem niewiele: po dwie godziny i to wszystko tylko tenisowo. Jeden człowiek powiedział mi jednak, że Arsenal trenuje tylko godzinę dziennie. A to piłkarz. Więc jak ci faceci mogą biegać 90 minut skoro trenują tylko godzinę dziennie? Tak, ja trenuję teraz godzinę dziennie, nie mam kontuzji, może nawet bardziej cieszę się grą - przyznał.
Jego fenomenalne, z chirurgiczną precyzją zagrywane w narożnik kortu uderzenia wzbudzały wielki aplauz prawdziwej tenisowej publiczności w hali O2. - Nie liczy się tylko potężny serwis, można urozmaicić grę. Można mieć dobry odbiór, dobrze biegać, kontrolować akcję z linii bazowej, grać wolejem. Ważna jest też koncentracja - wyjaśnia.
- Ale nie wiem czy Olivier Rochus jest w stanie osiągnąć tak wysoki poziom - wspomina belgijskiego kolegę, najmniejszego zawodnika cyklu World Tour. - Jestem przekonany, że każdy może zostać nr. 1. Nie ważne jaki wysoki i silny jesteś - przyznaje.
Co oznacza dla niego trofeum?. - Coś naprawdę ważnego, gdy ma się już w sumie te 19 tytułów. W przyszłym sezonie powalczę o dwudziesty. Waga wzrasta, gdy pomyślę, że w półfinale pokonałem Federera. To nieprawdopodobne gdy pomyślę sobie, że moje nazwisko będzie wyryte obok tych Samprasa i Federera - mówi.
Pobił Federera po dwunastu kolejnych porażkach. Ma już na koncie zwycięstwa ze wszystkimi rywalami z Top10. Co teraz? Wielki Szlem? - Tak, Wielki Szlem, bo tam gra się do trzech wygranych setów. Lubię to, bo w trzech setach zwyciężać jest łatwiej. Ale trzeba być lepiej przygotowanym fizycznie, gdyż nie biega się przez dwie godziny, a przez cztery - mówi.
Recepta na sukces w Masters? - Przed turniejem pojechałem do Moskwy. Przez sześć dni nie miałem w ręku rakiety. Nic nie robiłem. Przyjechałem tu w środę i przez trzy dni treningu zdałem sobie sprawę, że czuję się znakomicie - tłumaczy.
W nowym sezonie ma wielką szansę na kolejny awans w rankingu światowym, w którym przed trzema laty zajmował już trzecią pozycję. Nie grał bowiem w tym sezonie z powodu kontuzji ani w cyklu australijskim, ani amerykańskim wiosną, więc nie broni żadnych punktów.
Za triumf w Londynie zgarnął ok. półtora miliona dolarów. Wciąż jednak to za mało, by stać go było na zakup domu w Moskwie. - Wciąż na to składam - uśmiecha się.
Davydenko ready to pick up where he left off a month ago
Davydenko ready to pick up where he left off a month ago Nikolay Davydenko is due for arrival in the Gulf at mid-week rested and refreshed from his Maldive island holiday and ready to start this 2010 season at the Capitala World Tennis Championship in Abu Dhabi.
The No. 6 Russian will compete beginning at the second edition of the special event in a six-man field headed by Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal.
That top pairing will have a lighter workload the the three-day showcase, with the Nos. 1 and 2 awaiting semi-final opponents from the four other contenders in the field - Swiss Stan Wawrinka, 2008 Australian Open finalist Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, French Open finalist Robin Soderling and Davydenko.
"After some time out I feel pretty refreshed and am now very much looking forward to getting back on the court again and returning to the form I showed towards the end of the season,” said Davydenko, who lost the Abu Dhabi semi-final to Nadal a year ago.
In 2009, the 28-year-old captured five ATP World Tour titles in a season for second time in his career (2006), capped by winning his biggest career title in London just over a month ago.
Davydenko faces Tsonga on New Year's eve in the emirate while Wawrinka plays Soderling in the afternoon's second match.
Davydenko wants to extend red-hot run
Russian world No 6 strives hard to improve in every match
Abu Dhabi: Nikolay Davydenko will be keen to start the New Year in the same vein he has reached the fag end of 2009 after recording his first ever win over world No 1 Roger Federer and then going on to win the year-ending Barclays ATP World Tour Finals in London.
Davydenko, currently ranked sixth in the world, takes on 17th-ranked David Ferrer in the Capitala World Tennis Championship starting tomorrow.
Speaking to Gulf News, the Russian said, "I really enjoyed my experience at last year's Capitala World Tennis Championship. The fans were very supportive and the event was very well run. I am looking forward to this year's event."
Davydenko touched peak form in the year-ending ATP World Tour Finals in London and after having beaten all the other top ten ranked players in the world finally got one better on Roger Federer with a 6-2 4-6 7-5 win. In the final, he accounted for Juan Martin del Porto to ensure that the year would end on a high,
Commenting on that win Davydenko said, "Winning the year-end title is certainly a confidence-builder. I think I played some of my best tennis during the second half of the season, and hopefully I can carry that success into the start of 2010."
Looking to improve
Davydenko said that even as he spent his Christmas with his family he continue to work with his brother Eduard and his fitness trainer Alexander Kasantsev.
"As a professional player you always want to win every event you enter. But that is unrealistic. What's important is trying to improve every match. If you continue to improve as the year progresses then the wins will take care of themselves," the world number six said looking ahead at 2010.
Though exonerated in the match-fixing controversy, Davydenko has had some very tough years off the court, but the low-profile star said he just kept focusing on the game.
"As a professional athlete you always have the spotlight on you. It is important to stay focused on those things that you can control," he said reflecting a quality which drew praise from Federer himself after he was beaten in London last month.
"He [Davydenko] didn't have the easiest of last few years, where people suspected him of doing bad things in the sport. He had a cloud over his name for quite some time, which was not very fair at the end now," Federer said.
"He handled it very well. To be able to continue playing this well … must not have been very easy for him. So I respect him not only for that, but obviously for the player he is," said Federer, who is in the other half of the six-man Capitala event.
No extra pressure
One of the most consistent players in world tennis, Davydenko said the recent success will not put any extra pressure on him. "I don't feel any added pressure. Again, it is all about trying to play your best tennis every match," he said.
If Davydenko wins his opener against David Ferrer tomorrow, he plays world number two Rafael Nadal on New Year's day.
The Russian said he will be heading to Doha for the Qatar ExxonMobile Open which kick starts his ATP Tour and said, "I go into every year looking to play my best tennis every match, and to hopefully continue to improve my game."
#20) Doha 2010
R32 M.Kukushkin 6-2 6-0
R16 M.Chiudinelli 6-3 6-4
QF I.Karlovic(7) 7-6 7-6
SF R.Federer(1) 6-4 6-4
W R.Nadal(2) 0-6 7-6 6-4
Dawidienko królem Kataru! Nadal podzielił los Federera
Nikołaj Dawidienko po wielkim tenisowym spektaklu pokonał Rafela Nadala 0:6 7:6(8) 6:4 i sięgnął po główną nagrodę turnieju ATP w Dausze. Wcześniej, w meczu półfinałowym, Rosjanin odprawił z kwitkiem samego Rogera Federera.
Hiszpan już od samego początku udowodnił, że bardzo zależy mu nie tylko na tym, żeby zrewanżować się Rosjaninowi za dwie ostatnie porażki (podczas turniejów w Szanghaju i Londynie), ale przede wszystkim na pokazaniu swojej wielkiej formy sportowej, do której wraca po okresie zmagań z problemami zdrowotnymi.
Czterokrotny zwycięzca Roland Garros od pierwszych minut zdecydowanie dominował na placu gry. Już w drugim gemie przełamał serwis przeciwnika i szybko objął prowadzenie 3:0. Dawidienko, niemal cały czas zepchnięty do głębokiej defensywy, odgrywał piłki w pół kortu i zachęcał przeciwnika do ataku. Nadal bezlitośnie wykorzystywał każdą sytuację, doprowadzając Rosjanina do rozpaczy. Z żelazną konsekwencją przerzucał kolejne topspinowe forhendy i z zapasem dwóch przełamań wygrał seta 6:0.
Rosjanin z niesamowitą determinacją ruszył do walki w drugim secie. Stojący na fenomenalnym poziomie, pierwszy gem, przynajmniej w jakimś stopniu zrekompensował nam jednostronny obraz gry. I choć zawsze solidny Dawidienko miał kilka szans break pointowych, to nie udało mu się przełamać "dominatora" z Majorki.
Kiedy w kolejnym gemie, po 50 minutach gry Rosjanin zdobył pierwszego gema, na trybunach rozległ się gromki aplauz. Tym samym rozpoczął się nowy rozdział w tym spotkaniu. Obserwowaliśmy wiele zapierających dech w piersiach wymian, z których coraz częściej zwycięsko wychodził Rosjanin. Przy stanie 2:2 zawodnik z Wołgogradu przejął inicjatywę, częściej wchodził w kort i niespodziewanie odebrał serwis Nadala. Do tego poprawił skuteczność serwisu, a jego akcje przy siatce przypominały najlepsze akcje z trawników Wimbledonu. Hiszpan podarował też trochę prezentów. Rosjanin z zimną krwią rozrzucał przeciwnika po całym korcie i wyszedł na 5:3.
Kiedy trzeci set wisiał w powietrzu, Hiszpan poderwał się do walki, obronił piłki setowe i objął prowadzenie 6:5. Ostatecznie doszło do rozgrywki tie breakowej, w której emocje sięgnęły zenitu. „Kola” zaczął od prowadzenia 4:1, by za chwilę przegrywać 4:5. Przy piłce meczowej Hiszpana, przeprowadził szaleńczy atak do siatki i odgrywając agresywnego woleja, zmusił Nadala do popełnienia błędu. Później obronił jeszcze jeden punkt mistrzowski dla rywala i przepięknym bekhendem po linii zakończył dodatkowego gema w stosunku 10:8, doprowadzając tym samym do rozstrzygającego seta.
Trzecią partię Dawidienko rozpoczął mocnym akcentem, łatwo wygrywając swój serwis. Tym samym odpowiedział Hiszpan, choć musiał bronić break pointa. Do kluczowego momentu doszło w trzecim gemie, w którym nastąpiło przełamanie serwisu Rosjanina i na tablicy widniał wynik 3:1 na korzyść drugiego tenisisty światowego rankingu. Nikołaj nie byłby sobą, gdyby nie odparł ataku. Po raz kolejny udowodnił, że ma niesamowitą wolę walki i wspaniałe umiejętności, wychodząc na prowadzenie 4:3. Zawodnicy prezentowali momentami tenis z innej planety. Dawidienko przyparł Nadala do ściany i ponownie odebrał jego serwis, a tym samym zdobył 20. tytuł w karierze.
Eurosport.pl - Maciek Blada
Davydenko Saves Two Match Points To Clinch Title
In a remarkable final at the Qatar ExxonMobil Open Saturday, World No. 6 Nikolay Davydenko recovered from a bagel first set and saved two match points to edge No. 2 Rafael Nadal 0-6, 7-6(8), 6-4 and win his 20th ATP World Tour title.
By virtue of winning the ATP World Tour 250 hard-court tennis tournament, Davydenko received 250 South African Airways 2010 ATP Ranking points and $185,850, while runner-up Nadal earned 150 ATP Ranking points and $97,350 in prize money.
Victory takes Davydenko’s winning run to nine matches unbeaten, having closed 2009 with victory at the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals in London. At both the season finale and in Doha this week, Davydenko recorded victories over Roger Federer and Nadal, making him the second player to defeat them during the same tournament on two different occasions after David Nalbandian beat them at ATP World Tour Masters 1000 tournaments in Madrid and Paris in 2007.
The 28-year-old Davydenko maintained his stellar record in ATP World Tour finals, improving to a 20-5 mark. The Russian is the 38th player in the Open Era (since 1968), and the fifth active player, to win at least 20 ATP World Tour titles. He has now won his past six ATP World Tour finals, with his last loss coming at the 2008 Tennis Masters Cup Shanghai against Novak Djokovic.
It seemed unlikely that the Russian would maintain his winning ways, though, when Nadal won the first seven games of the pair’s ninth meeting to race to a 6-0, 1-0 lead. In a dominant display, Nadal surrendered just one point on serve in the first set. It was the first time in 338 matches that Davydenko had lost a 6-0 set and the 10th time overall in his career. He had never before recovered to claim victory.
“The first set was 6-0, everybody saw it," said Davydenko. "But if you saw the match, it was not so easy. I tried every point but Nadal had very good concentration and played very well every point. I really had the chance to win some games, but I played a little bit slowly, he played much faster."
The third-seeded Davydenko gradually rediscovered the form that had seen him overturn ATP World Tour Champion Federer in the semi-finals, though, and broke through to lead 3-2 in the second set with a rifling forehand pass up the line. However, the Volgograd resident could not serve out the set at 5-4, paying the price for some loose errors as Nadal levelled at 5-5 before forcing a tie-break.
Davydenko employed the tactic of approaching the net with great success to create a 4-1 lead in the tie-break, but again could not maintain his lead and Nadal hit back to hold match point at 6-5. Davydenko once more attacked the net to pressure Nadal, though, and was rewarded as he drew level at 6-6. In a spell where neither player was able to win a point on serve, Davydenko squandered a set point and quickly Nadal held a second match point at 8-7. A rare forehand error from the Spaniard proved costly though and Davydenko hit back to level the match with a backhand winner down the line on his second set point.
Nadal looked to be back on track early in the third set, quickly re-establishing the advantage by breaking to lead 2-1. The Spaniard allowed Davydenko back into contention in the sixth game, though, and lost his serve again in the 10th game as the Russian claimed a dramatic victory after two hours and 43 minutes.
"[In the second set] I started to find my game and started to come back. I should have won the second set at 5-4 with set point, but I didn’t and I was lucky in the tie-break," said Davydenko. "The match was long, I was really tired, but in the third set I still felt I had some power and maybe I could continue and win the match. I don’t know what happened to him at the end. He tried a winner at 4-4, he didn’t make it and it was 5-4 for me. I think he lost a little bit of concentration and lost the match. For me it was a really good fight today."
“I think I played an amazing level in the first set," reflected Nadal. "I had the match in my hands a few times in the third set and the second set, with two match points. I must be happy that I played against one of the players with the best performance on the tour (at the moment) and I was playing better than him during a lot of the match."
Davydenko improved to a 5-4 mark against Nadal and is the only player to have beaten the Mallorcan at least five times and hold a winning record against him. He also defeated Nadal in their two previous matches, triumphing in the final of the Shanghai ATP Masters 1000, presented by Rolex in October and in the round-robin stage of the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals, both times in straight sets.
Defeat for Nadal sees the left hander’s title drought continue. The reigning Australian Open champion last lifted a trophy on the ATP World Tour in early May with victory over Novak Djokovic at the Internazionali BNL d’Italia in Rome.
“Sure, it’s better to win, especially when you have the chance," said Nadal. "But, that’s tennis and probably this match I needed a little bit more calm. But playing at this level I am sure I’m going to win [a title].
“I think I did the most difficult thing and that was playing all the time at my best level. I’m probably playing better than ever, for the moment. There was one moment in 2008 maybe where I played like I did today in the first set. So that’s a very positive thing for me. I don’t know if I will win in Australia, but I think I’m in a very, very good way.”
After a stellar first five months of the 2009 ATP World Tour season, Nadal was hindered by knee tendonitis, that forced him to miss Wimbledon, and later an abdominal strain that affected him during the North American hard-court season. He closed the season on top form, though, leading Spain to the defence of the Davis Cup title.
Turniej ATP w Dausze. Triumf Dawidienki!
Rosjanin Nikołaj Dawidienko pokonał rozstawionego z numerem drugim Hiszpana Rafaela Nadala 0:6, 7:6 (10-8), 6:4 w finale turnieju ATP tenisistów na twardych kortach w Dausze (z pulą nagród 1,024 mln dolarów).
Wcześniej Dawidienko wyeliminował turniejową i światową "jedynkę" - Szwajcara Rogera Federera.
W sobotę wydawało się, że Nadal nie da szans niżej notowanemu rywalowi. Pewnie wygrał pierwszego seta. Gdy w drugim oddał pierwszego gema Rosjaninowi, Dawidienko uniósł ręce w geście triumfu, a kibice zgotowali mu owację.
To wyraźnie zmotywowała rozstawionego z trójką tenisistę - zdołał doprowadzić do tie breaka, którego wygrał 10-8. W decydującym secie dwukrotnie przełamał podanie Nadala i mógł się cieszyć z pierwszego zwycięstwa w 2010 roku.
Spotkanie trwało dwie godziny i 43 minuty.
Nikołaj Dawidienko (Rosja, 3) - Rafael Nadal (Hiszpania, 2) 0:6, 7:6 (10-8), 6:4.
Davydenko saves 2 MPs, stuns Nadal for Doha title
Nikolay Davydenko saves two match points in the second-set tiebreaker before outlasting Rafael Nadal to win the season-opening title in Doha on Sunday.
Nikolay Davydenko faced a different Rafael Nadal on Sunday, but the result--just barely--was the same.
Davydenko, who hammered Nadal twice last fall, saved two match points en route to a 0-6, 7-6(8), 6-4 victory in the final of the Qatar ExxonMobil Open.
Nadal failed to win a single set against Davydenko at both the Shanghai Masters and the World Tour Finals, but he seemed poised to return the straight-set favor in Doha. Storming out of the starting gate in a kind of form that was never on display following his triumph at the Australian Open, Nadal refused to give Davydenko even one game in the first set. He broke serve at 1-0, 3-0, and 5-0 and dropped a mere one point in three service games of his own.
In the very first game of the second set, however, Davydenko made it clear that he was not about to let that happen again. Not even close. Although Nadal managed to hold for a 1-0 lead, he had to save three break points and did not finish it off until almost 13 minutes had elapsed. Firmly back in the game, Davydenko held serve to get on the scoreboard at 1-1 and never looked back.
Davydenko went up a break early in the set, but he played a dismal game while serving at 5-4 and was forced into a tiebreaker two holds later. And what a 'breaker it was. In a wild, back-and-forth affair, Davydenko led by two mini-breaks early, gave both of them right back, then threw away two more mini-breaks later on in the 18-point decider. Nadal, too, squandered chances. The second-ranked Spaniard even held two match points, but Davydenko saved both with brilliant baseline tennis. At 8-8, the No. 3 seed came up with a pair of scorching winners to improbably force a final set.
But Davydenko was not done with his comebacks. After falling behing by an early break in the third, the sixth-ranked Russian raised his level on serve and--more importantly--started to be more and more aggressive in the return game. He won 65 percent of Nadal's second-serve points in set three and under that kind of pressure, the Spaniard cracked serving to stay in the match at 4-5. Davydenko converted two of three break-point opportunities in the third set, the last of which clinched the title after two hours and 43 minutes of high-quality, back-and-forth tennis.
"I started to find my game and started to come back," Davydenko explained. "I should have won the second set at 5-4 with set point, but I didn’t and I was lucky in the tiebreak. I don’t know what happened to him at the end. He tried a winner at 4-4, he didn’t make it and it was 5-4 for me. I think he lost a little bit of concentration and lost the match. It was a really good fight."
Davydenko, who finished with 54 winners and 51 unforced errors, has now won three straight against Nadal and leads their head-to-head series 6-5. Nadal put on a much better show against Davydenko that he he did in their two most recent encounters, but after dictating play in the first set, he once again found himself on the defensive. The world No. 2 finished with 37 winners and 28 errors.
"Sure, it’s better to win, especially when you have the chance," Nadal concluded. "But that’s tennis and probably I needed a little bit more calm. But I’m probably playing better than ever for the moment. There was one moment in 2008 maybe where I played like I did today in the first set. So that’s a very positive thing for me."
Doha: niesamowite przebudzenie Dawydienki
Sobota była dniem niezwykłych finałów. Najpierw w Brisbane niezapomniane widowisko stworzyły Kim Clijsters i Justine Henin, a następnie na równie wysoki poziom wznieśli się Nikołaj Dawydienko i Rafael Nadal w Doha. 28-letni Rosjanin wygrał turniej Qatar Exxon Mobil Open, pomimo że został rozgromiony w pierwszym secie. Wynik trwającego 2 godziny i 43 minuty finału to 0:6, 7:6(8), 6:4.
W pierwszej partii na korcie niepodzielnie rządził fantastycznie usposobiony Nadal. 23-letni mistrz z Manacor nie dał Rosjaninowi żadnych szans. Oddał mu zaledwie 11 punktów i ani jednego gema. Honorowy punkt na tablicy wyników Dawydienko zapisał przy swoim nazwisku dopiero po 52 minutach gry. Fakt ten został nagrodzony gromkimi brawami widzów zgromadzonych w kompleksie Khalifa w Doha. Jednak to, co wydawało się uniknięciem kompromitacji, okazało się punktem zwrotnym. Dawydienko z każdą chwilą się rozkręcał, parł to przodu i zmuszał Nadala do coraz większego wysiłku. W końcu udało mu się przełamać Hiszpana. Wicelider rankingu ATP zdołał jednak odrobić stratę i doprowadzić do tie breaka. 28-letni Rosjanin nie zrezygnował jednak z ofensywnej gry i częstych wizyt przy siatce. Niezwykłe emocje towarzyszyły kibicom w tie breaku. Lepiej rozpoczął Dawydienko, ale następnie gra się wyrównała, setbole marnował Rosjanin, a meczbole Nadal. W końcu szalę na swoją stronę przeważył zwycięzca ubiegłorocznego Masters w Londynie. Szósty w rankingu Dawydienko triumfował 10-8. W decydującym secie obaj tenisiści utrzymali wysoki poziom. W początkowej fazie seta panowie uzyskali po jednym breaku, ale kluczowy okazał się dziesiąty gem. Serwujący przy stanie 4:5 Rafael Nadal nie zdołał utrzymać podania, dając tym samym turniejowe zwycięstwo Dawydience.
Nikołaj Dawydienko zdobył 20. tytuł w zawodowej karierze i potwierdził doskonałą formę z końca poprzedniego sezonu, która dała mu triumf w mistrzostwach ATP w Londynie. 28-letni Rosjanin wykazał się niezwykłymi umiejętnościami i wolą walki, przez co należy stawiać go w gronie faworytów zaczynającego się 17 stycznia Australian Open.
Dzięki sobotniemu zwycięstwu Dawydienko otrzyma 185 850 dolarów oraz 250 punktów do rankingu ATP. Poprawił także bilans konfrontacji z Nadalem na 5:4. Warto przypomnieć, iż w fazie półfinałowej Rosjanin wygrał z Rogerem Federerem.
Denko w DEUCE:
The Man Who Can No Longer Be Ignored
Nikolay Davydenko doesn't want the media attention that is heaped on his peers like Federer, Nadal and Djokovic. He just wants their success. As the hottest player on the ATP World Tour heading into the Australian Open, the Russian may be ready to claim his first Grand Slam title.
It is time to sit up and take notice of Nikolay Davydenko - whether he likes it or not. The Russian, notorious for shunning the limelight and being overlooked by fans, media and sponsors alike, is playing some of the finest tennis of his career and may be ready to add a Grand Slam title to his collection.
Davydenko, who has finished no lower than No. 6 in the year-end South African Airways ATP Rankings for the past five years, has always been overshadowed by peers including Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic and Andy Roddick. But he wouldn’t have it any other way.
"I enjoy being like this, I don't want to be famous like these guys," he says. Why? "Because I like to lead a much more private life. I enjoy going to clubs and having nobody recognise me. I can sometimes do crazy things and nobody will take pictures of me or tell the newspapers. For me to be famous is not so good.
"I really don't think about media," he added. "They just concentrate on the number one, two and three guys and that's it. For me, really, I have no pressure; that's how I like it. Nobody thinks about me, nobody talks about me. I am really relaxed, enjoying myself and just concentrating on the matches. If I win a Grand Slam, or if I become No. 1, I'd be the same guy. I really try not to be famous."
Davydenko, LondonAll he wants, he says, is a little more fan support, particularly when playing on home soil. "I was really disappointed in Moscow [earlier this year] when I played against Marat. Mostly, like 80 per cent, supported Safin," lamented Davydenko after his win over US Open champion Juan Martin del Potro in the final of the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals. "For sure, it was the last tournament for him. But I saw how many people liked him, how they supported him and enjoyed how he played. I hope that now Marat is finished - and no longer as famous in Russia - that I will be the favourite for Russia and everybody will support me."
Tennis fans struggle to connect with Davydenko. They see only a hard-working and highly focused player, who rarely shows his emotions on court. The real Davydenko is straight-talking, fiercely loyal to those around him and blessed with a dry sense of humour.
Davydenko certainly does not lack support from his family, notably his brother and coach, Eduard, and wife of three years, Irina. Both travel with him, although Eduard will take a step back this season to spend more time with his family, and Davydenko knows that their support has been invaluable.
"I really enjoy it, when my family is with me I do better at tournaments and I don’t miss home at all. I can say I don’t want to go home, because my home is with me now."
Irina has travelled with him on the tour for the past six and a half years. The pair met when he made his Davis Cup debut against Czech Republic in 2003 and she first accompanied him to a tournament later that year in Estoril, where he succeeded in winning his second ATP World Tour title.
"It was the first time she had come to a tournament with me," recalled Davydenko. "I was feeling good because I was with my favourite woman, I saw that I could win tournaments and thought Why not? - She can travel with me to every tournament!
"She just tries to relax my mind mostly. She helps me to enjoy myself outside of tennis and tells me to forget tennis because you cannot think about tennis 24 hours a day; you start to be tired. We don't speak about tennis and do something different."
Like many players, Davydenko, who grew up inspired to play like Ivan Lendl, was forced to make difficult decisions at a young age in order to pursue a tennis career at the highest level. In 1992, aged 11, he packed his bags, bade farewell to his parents, Vladimir and Tatjana, and went to live in Volgograd with his older brother Eduard, who had enjoyed a promising junior career before going to study sports training and coaching at university. He can remember no clear reason for wanting to undertake such a big move. Fate, he decides, must have intervened.
"I really don't remember very much about when I left. My mother just told me that I wanted to go and live with my brother and that’s what I did. I really don't know why I wanted to go there and play tennis. I'm not so crazy about practising tennis. But something changed in my life; I don’t know… I think a sign was given to me to tell me to change my life."
Davydenko with wife IrinaFrom that day forward, Eduard has served the role of big brother, coach and mentor through the good times and the bad, guiding Davydenko to 20 ATP World Tour titles, including three ATP World Tour Masters 1000 trophies, and four Grand Slam semi-finals. Davydenko has never once considered employing someone else.
"He's my brother, we have always been close. He always helps me with what I need. He knows me very well, and he can always give to me everything that I need. We spend a lot of time together, on the court and off the court also. He knows everything very well, that's why I would find it very difficult to change to another coach. I'm always happy with him, because he always knows what I need to do, how to practice and everything. He can prepare me for tournaments, and I feel confident."
Indeed, one of the few goals Davydenko and his brother are yet to achieve together is Grand Slam championship glory. Two semi-finals apiece at Roland Garros and the US Open, with defeat coming at the hands of Federer on three of the four occasions, are Davydenko's best efforts in the majors. But, as he approaches the Australian Open in the form of his life, the right-hander believes that the best is yet to come. Even a runner-up finish won't suffice for the determined Russian.
"I feel I can beat everyone, because I've beaten everyone already," said Davydenko. "Maybe then I have better confidence for sure. I'm feeling like I can win and really play very good tennis.
"Five years in the Top 10 is not amazing, but it's good, it's really good. I have enjoyed all these years in the Top 10. I've had great results, I've won 20 titles. I hope that's not all, though. I will try to do more, I hope, if I can. I have memories of playing semi-finals in Grand Slams. But a semi-final is not like winning. You enjoy it only if you win the tournament."
DavydenkoDavydenko, who played dress up in 2008 while blogging for ATPWorldTour.com (photo left) (read blog), enters the Australian Open as the man of the moment, coming in on a nine-match unbeaten run and labelled as being in "incredible" form by Nadal. En route to winning the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals in his final outing of 2009 he defeated Nadal in the round-robin stage and earned his first win in 13 attempts over Federer in the semi-finals. Then, in the first week of the 2010 season, he followed up by defeating the world's top two players again to triumph at the Qatar ExxonMobil Open in Doha.
Davydenko's performance in Doha was jaw-dropping. In the first set of his semi-final against Federer he put all 27 first serves into play en route to a 6-4, 6-4 win. In the final, a sizzling Nadal served up a bagel in the first set and held two match points in the second-set tie-break. But with his newfound self belief, Davydenko rallied to win 0-6, 7-6(8), 6-4.
As is his wont, though, Davydenko won't be putting himself under any additional pressure by declaring himself one of the favourites for the first Grand Slam of 2010 in Melbourne, where he is a three-time quarter-finalist. He is content to quietly make his way through the draw, round by round.
"Really, I don’t think about the Australian Open because it's too much pressure then for me. I enjoy coming to Australia, and will concentrate on the first round, then the second. For me, it's important to see how I play every match and feel my way step by step, and then my confidence will get better and better."
One thing is for sure: Even if the media is looking elsewhere, Davydenko's fellow players will be watching him very closely, indeed.
Nikolay Davydenko puts critics to sword
NIKOLAY Davydenko is international sport's most unlikely success symbol.
More accountant than athlete, reclusive Davydenko has operated on the fringes of world tennis for the best part of a fine career.
On the surface, he shapes as Mr Bland wielding Excalibur.
Beyond the stony face, Davydenko is one of the most perplexing characters on tour.
By turns, dour and hilarious, sincere and careless.
What is beyond dispute is the fact he was vilified after an investigation into a mid-match betting plunge in one of his matches in Sopot in 2007.
No charges were laid, but the damage was done.
If Davydenko is unfazed by accusations of being boring, charisma-free and mercenary, others are less enamoured by the slurs.
Beaten by Davydenko at the ATP World Tour finals in London in November after winning the pair's first 12 matches, Roger Federer rounded on the doubters and the accusers.
Asked if Davydenko was sufficiently respected, Federer said: "Well, I don't know if you guys (media) have respect.
"I have. I think it's most important that he has respect from his fellow players.
"I think he didn't have the easiest of last few years . . . where people suspected him of doing bad things in the sport.
"He had a cloud over his name for quite some time, which was not very fair.
"I think he handled it very well towards the end.
"To be able to continue playing this well by being asked always the same stupid questions must not have been very easy for him.
"So I respect him not only for that, but obviously for the player he is."
Dubbed the invisible man because of his low profile, Davydenko again claimed Federer's scalp in Doha to emerge as a legitimate grand slam contender.
He has been an under-achiever at the highest level, failing to reach a major final despite being a top-10 fixture.
The Russian struggles to explain his success, other than to point to the obvious -- hard work and a willingness to travel anywhere to play.
"I'm smaller (178cm and 70kg)," Davydenko said of his slight physique.
"It's like you can play different tennis. Not only big serve; you can get good return, running, good control baseline, play volley.
"How fast you running also is important, and, for sure, concentration. It's like everything together.
"I practise two hours a day. Much running."
Sages believe Davydenko would almost certainly have captured one of the big four by now if not for a slight hitch -- grand slam matches are mostly played outdoors, in the heat, and over best of five sets.
If the Australian Open was exclusively indoors and over best of three sets, Davydenko would rightly fancy his chances.
As it is, Davydenko is the most dominant player on the ATP World Tour, triumphing in last year's Shanghai Masters, ATP World Tour Finals and, a week ago, the Qatar ExxonMobil Open.
He not only defeated Federer in Qatar, he rocked Rafa Nadal by saving two match points en route to victory.
"The first set was 6-0, everybody saw it," the 28-year-old said of the Doha final.
"But if you saw the match, it was not so easy.
"I really had the chance to win some games, but I played a little bit slowly, he played much faster.
"(In the end) I think he lost a little bit of concentration and lost the match. For me it was a really good fight."
That is always the way for the baseliner. Should Melbourne Park escape its traditional January heatwave, Davydenko may yet vault to a success once considered beyond him.
If there are any doubts about that, run it past Roger Federer.
Davydenko devastating in opening hit-out
German qualifier Dieter Kindlmann’s luck was out when he drew in-form Nikolay Davydenko in the first round of Australian Open 2010. Davydenko demolished Kindlmann 6-1 6-0 6-3 on Tuesday, ending Kindlmann’s Grand Slam hopes as he had in the first round of the 2009 US Open.
Davydenko has been in outstanding form of late, beating Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer at both the ATP World Tour Finals and Doha to claim both titles. After the match, he said this has given him new confidence. “Now I feel like I can beat everyone. It’s interesting ... it’s a good feeling.”
Davydenko raced through the first two sets in a mere 46 minutes, skating smoothly around the baseline and effortlessly dispatching winners. A Kindlmann resurgence in the third set had the world No. 6 puffing and the Germans singing in the crowd. With Kindlmann up 3-1 and with another three break points to come on Davydenko’s serve, the third set seemed to be up for grabs.
But the impassive Davydenko decided enough was enough, firing down two aces. Kindlmann was caught in the headlights, unable to win another game. By the end of the match, the world No. 175 had watched 39 winners rocket past him.
At the ATP World Tour Finals in November, world No. 4 Juan Martin del Potro told Davydenko that playing him had been like playing against a Playstation 3. That impressive speed was on display on Show Court 2 against Kindlmann, as rarely did a ball seem out of Davydenko’s reach.
Back for his ninth Australian Open, Davydenko appeared relaxed at the post-match conference. A recent two-week break from tennis, spent diving in the Maldives, may pay dividends for the Russian, who looks certain to go further than his previous best effort of reaching the quarter-finals at the Australian Open between 2005-07.
Wywiad z Denko po meczu 1 rundy AO
THE MODERATOR: Questions, please.
Q. You are one of the favorites of the tournament. How do you deal with this? This year many players like Nadal or Murray thought Davydenko can win.
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: Oh, really? Surprising, you know, these guys start to talking about me, because maybe now. Before, if nobody talking, then nobody scare. Now it's everyone scare. That's what's is start to talking about me and favorites and everything.
But it's interesting feeling. Now I feel like I can beat everyone. That's was these guys now, you know, something feel different. Before no because I know I can win, but mostly I losing against these guys. But now I can beat everyone. It's good feeling.
Q. Your confidence is 200%, 400%?
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: No, maybe about these guys, yes. But, you know, if I play against top 10, it's coming quarterfinals, semifinal. But before I need to reach this level. I need to win second, third round, you know, to become this level, to become this level of 200%.
Q. Do you enjoy scaring people?
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: Enjoy which people?
Q. Scaring everybody that you're scaring now.
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: Oh, you mean... Yes, why not? Really, you know, if somebody scare of me, if I go on the court, it's very good. You know, then I have more confidence. If I don't feel by self good, I know everybody scare play against me, and I still have something, you know, feel I can win this match.
Q. This is a new feeling then?
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: Why new feeling? I have always the same feeling, but now little bit better. Little better feeling.
Q. Do you feel the attitudes of the other players, the top players, have really changed towards you?
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: I don't know. It's like, say, we play London like two months ago. You know, I don't know how is changed now in these two months. I know it's top guys have every tournaments very high level.
But every week, every tournament's different. You know, some guys play better there. Like, say, Federer play better in Wimbledon. But, like, say in Roland Garros different, or in other Grand Slam is different.
Is not these guys, like all top 5 guys have the same level in all tournaments. I see in some tournaments it's different level, and I know it's playing not so good and they are play much better.
That's was now it's just Grand Slam. I really don't know who is this guy who get now the hundred percent now play very well here and who is the favorite here. It's just begin first week, and we will see what's can happen the second week already.
Q. Your win in the Masters, what has it changed for you?
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: Really nothing. Just I won $1 million. It's okay. Nothing special (laughter.)
Q. What did you do with all this money? Did you buy a house in Russia?
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: Not yet. Not yet. Some invest money. You know, if you win money, you need to make more money. That's what's I try to do. Not only with tennis make money. Something else. Some business also to do. Because with tennis you can't do this so much money.
That's was is very important after tennis what you can do and how you invest your money in what you do after.
Q. Did you buy something for your wife?
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: Look, if I buy everything to my wife, how I can invest money?
Yes, for sure I buy something. But not so much, you know, what people think about this.
Q. What did you buy for her?
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: You know, I was after like London was two weeks in Maldives. I spent all this money there because we have good holiday. I don't think about how much I spend there. It's was good vacation. Was very enjoy.
Q. Do you notice anything about yourself, that you're playing better, anything that is better now?
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: I think start to play little bit much better volley to play. You know, if you see my match against Nadal in final in Doha, I start to go to the net. I start to make some points volley, make so many winners volley. Maybe a little bit better serve sometimes.
But try, try to do different. It's not only I just think about only baseline. For sure baseline. I want to be fast. I want to running fast. Like Del Potro tell me now I am like PlayStation 3 in London. Now I try to come level PlayStation 4, to be faster and faster. I hope I can do this. It's very important to me.
Q. Has Del Potro taught you to play PlayStation?
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: Yes. Like in London, everyone just start to talking about me like I'm like PlayStation player. Like if you play against me in PlayStation, the same level. I'm moving fast, play fast.
That's what is good. Everybody thinking I am very fast on the court. And I want to practicing like this. I want to keep this level, like PlayStation.
Q. Who won at PlayStation?
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: No, like say Del Potro play against me in PlayStation. He lost in London. You understand, yeah?
Q. Since you won the Masters, are you more recognized in the street? Do you sign more autographs?
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: I hope not. Then is not so many like say celebrity guys. I am not Paris Hilton. I don't want to be like this. I don't want to be like Nadal, Federer. These guys I never see by breakfast. They stay in the room and take room service.
For me better go downstairs, you know, take breakfast, or dinner to go somewhere, not to be so much famous.
Q. Are you a celebrity in Russia?
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: No. Also not. Russia's big country. Really big country. And some part, like in some place, yes, but not everywhere.
Q. Do you think players like Federer and Nadal have an advantage here because you have to win three sets? They always do well in Grand Slams. Do you think it can change something?
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: I don't know. It's always talk about Federer, Nadal, Federer, Nadal. Yeah, these guys always come in the final, play against guys both in finals in every Grand Slam.
But who knows now. If you see Wimbledon was Roddick, Del Potro was US Open. Game is change now. Have top 10 guys is pretty hard. If you see Soderling was in the final of Paris. It's not always Federer and Nadal in finals. It start to change in tennis.
I hope not to be anymore only Nadal‑Federer.
Q. You say the Masters didn't change a lot. Except for the money of course, is it going to change something if you win this tournament?
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: I don't know. Is here 50% tax. Cannot make millions here. Really is change only in your career, in your feeling, in your like, say, life because you won Grand Slam.
Yes, it's just titles. It's not only money. It's already some titles. I have already 20 titles. Yes, every tournament I win is my life is my title.
It's for sure if I continue, in tennis I feel I have so many titles and memories still feeling, yes. And some memories, some tournaments, like London, Shanghai, Miami, Paris. It's really big tournaments for me. For sure if I'm winning Grand Slam tournaments, it's still my memory.
Q. How much time did you spend in Maldives?
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: Two weeks. I start to teach diving. Now I am professional diving. Something you need to teach, something you need to learn, something different, not think about tennis.
Q. How deep did you go in diving?
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: Beginning 18 meters. Second step 40 meters. Next step, end of this year, I want to go 40 meters down.
Q. Do you talk to your wife a lot about tennis? Is she the one you confide in?
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: Sometimes if I feel ‑‑ no, if she ‑‑ like ‑‑ if I play bad or feel like something wrong, she start to talk to me about tennis. If everything okay, no. Is no question.
Davydenko: I'm no Federer or Nadal
Davydenko: I'm no Federer or Nadal Never one to make news with his mouth, Nikolay Davydenko held nothing back on the eve of the Australian Open. The veteran Russian even said that "it's only tennis" for Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal.
Nikolay Davydenko has not been kind on the court to Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal over the past few months. And now he is unforgiving off-court, as well.
In a recent interview, Davydenko accused Federer and Nadal--among others--of thinking "only" about tennis.
"I have a good life," the sixth-ranked Russian explained. "It’s not only about tennis for me. Maybe I am not a champion like Nadal or Federer. These guys mostly think about tennis. For them, it’s only tennis; winning tournaments, winning a grand slam, dreaming maybe every day about it. I am not that guy, I am different."
Having captured the World Tour Finals title in November and also kicking off his 2010 campaign with a win over Nadal in the Doha final, Davydenko is heading into a Grand Slam as one of the top favorites for the first time in his career. What would he do if he does, in fact, win the upcoming Australian Open?
"I don’t cry like Federer at winning a Grand Slam."
That remains to be seen, however, because Davydenko has never won a major - but he thinks this could be his time.
"Why not? I can win it for sure. I beat everyone already in the Top 10. It doesn’t matter if it’s a Grand Slam or another tournament. I feel I can continue my level and beat these guys here."
"Before, I knew that Federer always on important points would win. I beat Federer (in London) and my mind started to give me a chance. If I play against Federer, in my mind I don’t lose the match beforehand now. I just fight and I feel I can win this match. It just changed the way I think. It doesn’t matter where it is."
Nikołaj Dawidienko: Nie jestem Paris Hilton
Uważany za "czarnego konia" turnieju tenisowego Australian Open Nikołaj Dawidienko jest sportowcem, który nie rzuca się w oczy i nie dba o popularność. Po pokonaniu w pierwszej rundzie Niemca Dietera Kindlmanna 6:1, 6:0, 6:3 powiedział krótko - nie jestem Paris Hilton.
Miejscowi kibice rzeczywiście mogą mieć trudności z rozpoznaniem szóstej rakiety świata, gdyby zobaczyli niewysokiego mężczyznę w dresie, siedzącego w rogu sali i spożywającego obiad. - Nie chcę być taki, jak oni. Jak Rafa i Roger. Tych facetów nigdy nie widziałem przy śniadaniu. Pozostają w swoich pokojach i korzystają z obsługi hotelowej. Ja wolę zejść na śniadanie lub obiad. Dla mnie jest lepiej, że nie jestem tak sławny - powiedział Rosjanin. Jak przyznał, nawet w ojczyźnie nie jest rozpoznawany. - To naprawdę wielki kraj - wyjaśnił.
2009 rok Dawidienko zakończył wspaniale, wygrywając z Federerem, Nadalem i mistrzem USA Argentyńczykiem Juanem del Potro. Dzięki temu triumfował w Masters w Londynie. Ten sukces niewiele zmienił w jego sportowym życiu. Zarobił tylko więcej niż przedtem, potem pojechał na dwutygodniowy urlop z żoną na Malediwach. Ta przerwa dobrze mu zrobiła. W nowym sezonie znowu jest niepokonany. Ponownie wygrał z Federerem i Nadalem, tym razem w turnieju w Dausze.
Przeciwnicy zauważyli zmianę w jego grze. Znaną im szybkość poruszania się po korcie połączył z "ciągiem" na siatkę. Po przegranej z nim w Londynie del Potro powiedział mu, że grało mu się, jak z postacią z gry komputerowej. - Chcę być szybki, chcę biegać szybko. Del Potro powiedział mi, że jestem jak z PlayStation 3. Wszyscy wiedzą, że jestem szybki. Teraz staram się być jeszcze szybszym i przejść na poziom PlayStation 4. Mam nadzieję, że to mi się uda - zakończył Dawidienko.
http://www.sportowefakty.pl/tenis/2010/ … is-hilton/
Pan PS chce przejść na wyższy poziom. :D
Żeby przypadkiem nie spadł na poziom Gameboya Color.
Niestety Mikołaj jest przykładem, jak zbyt długie oczekiwanie na sukces i patrzenie jak inni go osiągają nasącza żółcią; trochę przykro czyta się wywiady z nim od kiedy wygrał WTF. Faktycznie nie jest jak Federer i Nadal i nigdy nie będzie; trochę tylko dziwi, że wybrał sobie za cel kiepskich docinków człowieka, który jako bodaj jedyny z czołowych graczy wsparł go publicznie, kiedy Kola był traktowany jak trędowaty.
Dla mnie w ogóle dziwny jest Kola. Najpierw zarzuca Federerowi i Nadalowi, że myślą tylko o tenisie, a to on sam gra częściej i gdzie się tylko da; później mówi, że nie zależy mu na popularności choc jak pamiętam całkiem niedawno żalił się, że tak mało osób mu kibicuje i liczył, że przejmie sympatie ludzi po odchodzącym Maracie. Coś chyba za bardzo to się kupy nie trzyma.
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Dla mnie w ogóle dziwny jest Kola. Najpierw zarzuca Federerowi i Nadalowi, że myślą tylko o tenisie, a to on sam gra częściej i gdzie się tylko da; później mówi, że nie zależy mu na popularności choc jak pamiętam całkiem niedawno żalił się, że tak mało osób mu kibicuje i liczył, że przejmie sympatie ludzi po odchodzącym Maracie. Coś chyba za bardzo to się kupy nie trzyma.
Chciałbym w całej rozciągłości się po tym podpisać. ;)
No let up for ruthless Davydenko
Highly-fancied Russian Nikolay Davydenko’s Australian Open campaign marched on with a comprehensive 6-3 6-3 6-0 victory over Ukrainian qualifier Illya Marchenko on Thursday.
Davydenko, the world No.6 took only one hour and 49 minutes to dispose of 22-year-old Marchenko, who was making his Grand Slam debut in Melbourne. The win edges Davydenko one step closer to a potential fourth-round clash with 2009 semi-finalist and this year’s ninth seed, Fernando Verdasco.
Davydenko’s precise and smart tennis saw him consistently out-wit his 119th-ranked opponent,. While Marchenko started well, taking an early 2-0 lead with a break of Davydenko’s serve, the Russian immediately broke back before holding serve defiantly with two big aces.
Marchenko rose to the occasion of his first match against a top 35 player and pulled out some winners of his own, including a cross-court backhand on the stretch from a deep Davydenko forehand.
The Ukrainian, who overcame 1998 Roland Garros champion Carlos Moya in the opening round, managed to earn four break point opportunities in the opening set, but Davydenko was too strong and took it 6-3.
It didn’t take long for Davydenko to grab the advantage in the second set, breaking the Ukrainian in his second service game.
Again Marchenko tried desperately to stay in the set, and went shot-for-shot with the world No. 6 in Davydenko’s next service game. The Ukrainian made a brilliant return from a powerful Davydenko backhand and fended off a body shot from the Russian at the net to set up another break point.
Davydenko fired an ace to get out of trouble and held his serve 4-2 before wrapping up the set in his following service game.
It was all one-way traffic in the final set as Davydenko put in a clinical display, quickly breaking Marchenko to love and finishing off the Ukrainian in just 30 minutes to cruise into the third round.
Davydenko is currently riding an 11-match winning streak. He won the season-ending ATP World Tour Finals last November, where he defeated Roger Federer for the first time, and he also beat Rafael Nadal and Juan Martin del Potro en route to the title.
His next opponent will be 30th seed Juan Monaco from Argentina, who came from two sets down to oust Frenchman Michael Llodra on Thursday.
Wywiad po meczu 2 rundy AO:
An interview with:
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO
THE MODERATOR: Questions.
Q. Perfect start of the tournament.
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: Yeah, two matches, three sets. That's good. Second match play better. Baseline was control and fighting first two sets. Something important I think for me. You know, play from baseline, running, you know, like fighting I think is good.
Q. Did your opponent look scared?
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: I don't think so. You know, qualifying guys really don't scare because nothing to lose. You know, just go, play, do the best result.
That's what's should be I need to scare against these guys because I don't know these guys, how he's playing. That's was is now different. It's not like between guys top 10 who is scare. This is now top 10 and something 150 in the world. You know, it's now different position.
But really I'm feeling I can win against these guys, and not to get hundred percent fit form, you know, say like not to be in the best level.
Q. Something more personal. Looking at your bio, I see you changed nationality when you were 18. Before you were Ukrainian. Can you explain a little bit why that happened.
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: It was one country. It was not Ukraine or Russia before. That's was I didn't change. I didn't have before 16, like say.
Just move to Russia. Everything was there. It's like doesn't matter where you be. Then was Russia. I was 11, like 12, and after my 16 age, I have my passport, I have citizenship Russian.
I didn't change anything from Ukrain to Russia passport, no.
Q. Would you love to write a book? Because you're an interesting figure, a great character.
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: Write a book? You mean a humor book? Tennis book? Action book? I don't know.
Q. Whatever.
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: No, no, no. Maybe. Really, I don't know. I still play tennis. I don't know what I can do after if I continue tennis really. It's interesting.
I would like to go in business, but I don't want to lose my money also in the business. That's different decision and difficult what I can do.
Q. Why are you always talking about money every time?
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: Because we are Russian (smiling.) Russian always talking about money. And you know all Russian can get only cash, not like you guys, only credit cards also. But not always getting money.
In tennis, for us, it's most important winning and titles to get, you know. Because we have not so long career. Like if we play 10 years, in 10 years if you win some tournaments, you can tell your kids what you did.
Because, you know, if my kids asking, Papa, why you not working? What you doing now? I need to explain what I did, how was my life was before. That's was different situation. Not like normal people, you know, working and get to some job, and then kids can say in school about what's parents doing.
That's what's in my position is different now.
Q. Are you a vodka drinker?
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: Yes.
Q. Is that where you get your strength from?
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: No, I don't drink really. I don't drink so much because, you see, I'm skinny. I mix only. Sometimes I drink clear vodka, sometimes mixed with Red Bull. Little bit get power in night club or disco.
Because if I drink only vodka I go sleep straight. That's what's something change.
Q. If you retire and you explain to your children why you're not working anymore...
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: It's interesting. We're not talking about tennis. We're talking about my life. This is my first experience like this in the press (laughter.)
Q. If you explain that you don't have a Grand Slam victory in a tournament, would you be happy?
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: I think so, yes. I just explain what I did, you know. It's not only think about Grand Slam. I did my job. I did my, you know, tennis career. Some guys didn't win anything, you know.
But also you can explain something. He beat somebody, you know, in top 10, or winning some great matches. I can explain I have now 20 titles. That's what's was I can explain Davis Cup win. That's something I can and something I can explain my kids. I hope I can. I hope I can have kids also in the futures. We'll see.
Q. Would you want to have them so they can still see you play?
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: Yes. No. Yes and no. Really, I would like have kids now, like Federer already two have, or Hewitt. You know, we have the same age. But my wife don't want to, you know, stay at home. She travel with me now.
At least now is important time. Now I'm top 10. She scared about if I start to, with kids, lose tennis and go down, stray. That's was because I start to miss and I want to go home. I don't want to practicing. That's what's is different.
Maybe for me is better for me be with my wife at this time, no kids. If I be out of top 10, maybe for sure. You know, for sure. But yet is difficult decision to be top 10 and something change.
But I like it maybe.
Q. She thinks you can win the tournament, your wife?
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: She think always I can win everything. But not everything I can win.
Q. And what do you think? You are the favorite or one of the favorites of the tournament.
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: I never think about any tournaments I am favorite. Doesn't matter which one, 250 or Grand Slam, because I know I can also lose not only top‑10 guys, but I can lose also No. 15 or hundred. It's depends how you feel.
I know I'm very good player. If I feel good, I for sure I can beat everyone. But not every day you can feel good. That's was difficult. It was also like in Grand Slam. I hope I can feel every day good here in Australia.
For sure, feeling good you can win matches and you can win, you know, tournament. But, you know, it's only four days here. Just second round. Still, you know, continue, you know, in tournament. We'll see how is it feeling.
Q. Your victory against Federer in London has changed something for you? More confidence since this victory?
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: Yes, yes. Maybe in the match. It's not like ‑‑ like if you remember, I beat Nadal before, some 'nother guys. If I play against Federer, and I know so many matches like 4‑All, I have set points and I losing sets.
It what's happening I think in Roland Garros in semifinal. I have in every set set points, and I lose three sets. This is really change my mind now. If you see like I was also in London in the third set was 5‑All or something, 5‑4 for Federer, and for sure he want to continue match. For sure he want to win now, you know, this match.
And he have chance, because it's was like Love‑30 or 15‑30, and then something in my mind ‑‑ I have good points. I did some well. I have good confidence at this time, and then I break him.
Something change these like few minutes, and winning, beat Federer. Already in second match in Doha I be more positive, more confidence. I know if be something by 5‑All or 4‑All or something, in much important points, I have chance win these points. That's was something change really.
Q. You said your wife says she thinks you can win every tournament you enter.
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: That's because she's my wife.
Q. After, does she analyze your tournament?
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: Yes, for sure. She analyze because she's travel with me already six years. Because in sitting with my brother, and brother always talking about what I did, right, left, everything, forehand. She can coaching me already.
She can explain what I did wrong in the match after the match. It's interesting, because I cannot see really what is a problem was in the match for sure, and she can explain.
Q. So she's a good coach?
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: Maybe in the future. Just tactic.
Q. How do you feel about a possible matchup with Verdasco in the quarters?
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: Everything in possible. I don't know what the score against Verdasco. I already played many times against him. Many times was fighting. Last time was in Kuala Lumpur final, 7‑5, 7‑5. Hard match.
I think for him here, I think he have good confidence. For him it's very well now, these balls, this surface, stadium. Just he feeling great.
We see if we can reach to Verdasco. Then we can talk about Verdasco.
Davydenko makes it 13 straight
Russia’s Nikolay Davydenko has marched through his round three match with Argentina’s Juan Monaco in a performance that confirms his status as one of this year’s favourites for the Australian Open title.
Extending his winning streak to 13 matches, Davydenko took one hour and 49 minutes to impress a packed Margret Court Arena on a windy Saturday afternoon with the 6-0 6-3 6-4 victory.
Davydenko said he could not exactly pinpoint the reason behind his recent stellar form.
“[Maybe] because I'm older,” he said, laughing. “I don't know really. It's difficult, really difficult to say why. Maybe it's depends how many matches you did and against who you play and against who you win.
“Maybe if like last year I beat so many good guys: Federer, Nadal, and you know, del Potro. Also like in Shanghai, I beat Djokovic. Very tough matches. It's like feeling I have very good confidence. Maybe my tennis a little bit change. Maybe I start to play a bit faster and do not so many mistake.”
No one could fault Davydenko’s play in the opening set on Saturday. Everything seemed to go right for the No.6 seed, as he won 24 of the 32 points up for grabs.
While Monaco found success with 87 per cent of his first serves in the opening set, he could not keep up with the Russian’s pace or spin.
Davydenko committed only four unforced errors in the opening six games as he had Monaco running ragged and sending his shots long and wide.
The second set continued much like the first. Davydenko was able to hold serve, break Monaco in the second game and leap ahead to a 3-0 lead.
“I was feeling today was much better my concentration in a match … I fighting for every point, and that's what maybe it was 6-0 in the first set and 3-0. I didn't make it any mistake, you know, like say [for] nine games,” he explained.
“But I can't holding all match like this. I know I losing in some points with concentration, some games. I can losing games … Holding the same level like first set and third set is really different.”
In the fourth game, a big Monaco serve, directly to the far corner of the box, pushed Davydenko out wide and in a position where he was unable to return.
With that, the Argentine opened his arms to the heavens and let out a cry of thanks, as he was finally on the scoreboard.
Davydenko faced some resistance in the following game, but Monaco was unable to convert on his break point opportunity, and the Russian’s perfect serve helped him make it 4-1.
The scare alone was enough to rattle the No.6 seed as errors started to creep into his play, his returns floating long and wide. With the wind occasionally causing havoc, sending balls wayward and at times even backwards, the third set started with a bang.
Davydenko broke in the opening service game on the back of some sloppy Monaco ball placement, but the Argentine drew level again within five minutes.
Davydenko had only two break point opportunities for the rest of the match, and managed to convert one in the important ninth game.
Serving at 15-40, Monaco tried to frame Davydenko from the net. He pushed the Russian to the baseline with a superb forehand, but Davydenko was too fast, the Russian sending a blistering forehand straight down the line and straight past a stunned Monaco.
It was all too much for the Argentine, as he threw his racquet to the ground in frustration.
From here, it was a textbook finish for Davydenko as he served out the match without dropping another point.
Davydenko will attempt to keep his dream of a first Grand Slam title alive when he faces the No.9 seed Fernando Verdasco in the fourth round.
Fast facts
- Davydenko committed 30 unforced errors for the match to Monaco’s 35; only four of Davydenko’s came in the first set.
- Davydenko hit 22 winners to Monaco’s six.
- The fastest serve for the match was from Davydenko at 207km/h.
- Monaco had two break point opportunities, converting one, while Davydenko was 6-for-10 on break point chances.
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Wywiad po meczu 3 rundy AO10:
An interview with:
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO
THE MODERATOR: Questions, please.
Q. In the 12 straight wins you conceded fewer games in a Grand Slam in this tournament. Can you keep up this excellent form? Do you think about it?
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: Really, it's difficult to say why it's happening. Maybe it's good. I was feeling today was much better my concentration in a match. And beginning start already. I fighting for every point, and that's what maybe it was 6‑Love in the first set and 3‑Love. Because like say I didn't make it any mistake, you know, like say nine games.
But I can't holding all match like this. I know I losing in some points with concentration, some games. I can losing games. That's was I start to get really tired in the end of second set and was already start for my difficult.
Holding the same level like first set and third set is really different was.
Q. Why are you playing better tennis this year than last year or the year before?
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: Because I'm older. (Laughter.). I don't know really. It's difficult, really difficult to say why. Maybe it's depends how many matches you did and against who you play and against who you win.
Maybe if like last year I beat so many good guys: Federer, Nadal, and you know, Del Potro. Also like in Shanghai, I beat Djokovic. Very tough matches. It's like feeling I have very good confidence. Maybe my tennis a little bit change. Maybe I start to play a bit faster and do not so many mistake.
It's really you can talk about tennis many hours. It's really difficult explain here in press why it's change.
Q. This year, everyone thinks you can win a Grand Slam. Did you think that about yourself last year or is it different this year?
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: Last year I didn't play here. It's very good for me. I feeling very good confidence now.
Q. But in the slams before, Wimbledon, US Open.
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: I really also surprising in Paris last year. I did very good match against Verdasco, and I really play very bad against Soderling in the quarterfinal. Sometimes I don't understand this feeling.
You know, really it's ‑‑ I hope ‑‑ you know, I hope I holding this level, you know. Every day and all this tournament, all these two weeks before.
Also in Roland Garros happened. Before match, I feel very good. Like my confidence was very high. Wake up next day, you know, just before match, I feel complete different situation. I lost three sets easy.
That's was I don't want to tell you guys, yes, now I want to win. Like say for sure I want to win now here Grand Slam. But this level, if I keep it, maybe I have chance. Maybe I have chance to win. Depends how every match. You know, like now I have Verdasco.
It's also not easy. Okay, I beat him many times. Last year he was semifinal here and he play very well here. For sure he want to play the same level like last year. That's my feeling. It's what I do in the court now, like every match. For me, it's important. That's was you guys. You want to think whatever you want. (Smiling.)
Q. Are you a superstitious man? Are you repeating what you do before every match that you've been on this run since London? Do you have superstitions?
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: Not really. No, I always forget what was passing me. Just I want to see in the next week, in the future, what I can do better.
For sure I see some, you know, realize some mistake, what I did last week and like last tournament. For sure I don't want to do next week. For me, it's for sure important do ‑‑ I think for my life, for my career, for my tennis, do my perfect tennis. Find this perfect tennis. Play fast, to do no mistake. Play volley. Everything.
I'm 28. I hope I can do in 29 and 30 much better. We'll see how my body, you know, still be with no injury. I think if I can holding like this to be fit for this season, I hope I can.
Q. So much of the emphasis on tennis these days in the men's game is about players who are 6'7", 6'9". We have Karlovic, Isner, Del Potro. Huge men. Here you are.
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: Come on. But I am not so small.
Q. Relatively.
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: To another guy, maybe.
Q. There are different ways of succeed in tennis.
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: But these guys running like me? No.
Q. Trying.
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: These guys just have different tennis. I think it's now at this time, if you see, it's tennis is so much different. Everybody can play. You know, some guys who make good serve and play volley and another guys running play only baseline and play very well.
That's was I ‑‑ Nadal also 6'0".
Q. A lot of stories in the papers are about how the male tennis player is getting bigger and bigger. When you walk past Isner you must think he's a giant.
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: But why everybody scare me? Of me, I mean.
Q. Maybe you scare them more than they scare you.
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: Yeah, but I hope I do my level, you know, and I can beat every 6'0" guys in the tour.
Q. Are you still one of the least‑known players? Do you get bothered for your autograph? You said no one in London did at all. Are you becoming a little bit more...
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: If I go outside now here, it's be difficult to do in autograph. But in the street in the city, yes it's easy. Nobody recognize me and it's good feeling really. Really good feeling.
Q. You live your life.
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: Yes. I like what ‑‑ how I enjoy my life, yes, like this.
Q. If you make the final, would you like to play on Margaret Court Arena? You've spent a lot of time out there. Are you disappointed that you haven't played on center court yet?
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: No, no. Why? It's always I know I starting here at Australia at Show Court 2, Margaret, then maybe Vodafone, like before was, yeah.
I don't know. Rod Laver, it's from quarterfinal always I starting to play. That's was I think it's good. I know I'm not like No. 1, No. 2 like always will need to play on center court.
But, if I know if I reach quarterfinal and I play center, it's also good feeling, you know, like coming here, 2010, I play if center court Australian Open.
Q. If you win a Grand Slam, what do you think will happen in Russia?
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: I don't go to Russia after Australian Open. That's was nothing happen there. (Laughter.) I have another tournaments, you know. I celebrate another tournaments then. It's okay.
Q. Do you think the people of Russia will celebrate?
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: I don't think so. It's not like football. Not really. In soccer, yes, everybody go in the street drinking. But I don't think so if I win Grand Slam everybody start to drink, all Russia. I don't think so. But it's Monday. It be Monday next day and everybody need work.
Q. Do you think you'll get a call from Marat Safin if you win?
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: He's now in Argentina. How can I call him?
Q. You don't think he will call you if you win a Grand Slam?
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: Why if I see him in Davis Cup in Moscow?
Q. If you're in Russia, do people recognize you in the streets? Do they know you?
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: Sometimes looking me, and then not believe it's me. Because Russia, like people think about how he can walk on the street because always he driving car. Never you see, you know, really famous people just walking somewhere.
Like say if you go in, I don't know, like in the bath sitting somewhere, people watching you and go, No, it's can't be him. It's not normal. It's mentally Russian.
Q. When the girls won Grand Slam and Myskina won the French Open, Putin rung her up. Do you expect a call from Medvedev?
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: Call? He didn't know my mobile number. But he did already send me to Russian Federation after I won London. Yeah, that's was very nice, what he did.
Q. What did he do? Tell us what he did.
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: What he did? Just congratulate me winning World Cup in London, blah, blah, blah. Just letter. Like he want to send to me in London, but he don't know which hotel I stay. That's was he send to Russian Federation. I hope I pick up now this letter if I go to Moscow.
Q. Is the tournament really beginning now?
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: Now tournament begin? Yeah, I'm already spend two weeks here.
Q. Is it getting tough, the real tournament is starting now?
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: Maybe. I don't know. We will see after Verdasco match. Just now we all top 10 players. Yeah, it's fourth round. Yeah, like I tell before, also difficult for me third round because very good player. Mostly everybody good player. Depends of me, how I play.
If I play well, I hope I have chance to win.
Q. If you had to marry another Russian tennis player, who would it be?
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: Marry?
Q. Get married, like husband and wife.
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: If I married another tennis player? Man or woman? (Laughter.). I have already wife. I have my beautiful wife. I don't want to have any ‑‑
IRINA DAVYDENKO: I hear you.
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: She's here.
Q. Sorry about that. (Laughter.)
Wywiad po meczu IV r. AO:
Q. In the tiebreaker, were you trying to give your fans a heart attack or what?
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: Yeah, was surprising myself. I think last year and was very tough matches always. I have very good concentration tiebreak and I won mostly every tiebreak.
Today, I don't know what's happen. I really play tiebreak really bad. (Laughter.) Because 5‑4 and my two serve and I didn't realize. You know, just I was disappointing, you know, just coming and sitting after fourth set and thinking, what I need to do now? If I lose tiebreak then my confidence go down. Just thinking, wow, bad luck for me.
I realize if you see in the fifth set beginning I was fighting my serve, just winning my serve. It was also not so easy beginning fifth set. But it's good fighting for me. It was four hours, and good realize some points and play well in the fifth set.
Q. Fernando thought you looked very tired at the beginning of the fifth set. Were you confident going into the fifth set?
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: I really tired, yes. Yes. Was difficult play against him, because if you see all match, he was serving fast, play fast. I think make so many winners like from forehand. Many.
I like mostly every serve have mostly 200‑something, 210 kilometers per hour. It was for me not so easy to return. I really today very bad return for me. I really cannot return like first serve from Verdasco.
So many mistake did in the second serve also for him. But like I said, I now compare to my serve, like today I also was not so perfect. 160, 170. Sometimes was 200. But mostly I have to do like constant, like in first slice, serve and play baseline. Really tried to do different things, not only winning with serve.
Q. He has a reputation of being one of the strongest and fittest players on tour. How much inspiration can you draw from winning in the fifth set?
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: He's strong physically, but not mentally. For sure he was strong. For sure he can play five, six, sets. But concentration you can't holding, you know, all five sets the same. That's was I know he have power in the fifth set, but he can make mistake.
That's what he did in him serve like after I break him 3‑2. I have few good return, and then couple baseline good rally and I won. You know, just return. That's was also surprising me. Always, I know ‑‑ and if you see was today, I know Verdasco well. Always if I go until 4 or 5‑All and then I have chance to break him and then winning like every end of set. Today it's was surprising I didn't make it in the third and fourth set.
That's was, I don't know, really difficult to play was today. Maybe it's so dry and sunny and balls fly, you know, fast. Center court also. I never play. Always show courts. (Smiling.) I really don't know what's can happen.
But I hope, you know, next match I play center court.
Q. Will you watch tonight's game, the prospect of playing...
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: Yes. Yes. If they show on TV. (Laughter.)
If you see between day session, night session, a little bit different situation. Like temperature go down and start to get cold and the balls fly not so fast like in day. It's also like every day you feel different. Also like I practicing like I play match, and next day different weather. I feel different.
Always in Australia so difficult. You know, always every day you need to change something, because you really feel not so comfortable. Not the same. That's was two weeks in Australia, you need every day something changes. Difficult.
Q. Would you like to play at night, the night session?
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: I don't know, because I need to wait all day. Really, for me, all four matches I played day session. I like to play now day session. In Doha I play night session. Night was like 6:00, 7:00, it was already dark and play every day the same.
Same situation be better. That's was, I don't know if I play against Hewitt or Federer it be night session.
Q. If you play against Federer, who will be the favorite of the match?
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: I hope Federer.
Q. Why?
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: Maybe because he beat Hewitt today, and like say he won already a few times Australian Open. He's No. 1. I'm No. 6. Why I need to be favorite if I'm not No. 1?
Q. Did you change something in your way to play against him last two games, last two matches?
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: Yeah, I start to run faster.
Q. It's probably better that you play him in night because you beat him in Doha. You beat him indoors at night. Is it easier to read the balls at night maybe?
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: Maybe night session it's a little bit slow. That's was I have more chance running fast, and, you know, keep it every ball and do no mistake. That's was if I just see now Tsonga against Almagro I didn't see really baseline games. It's always like mistake or winners. Like play very fast.
That's was day session now today is really fast.
Q. And can you read the balls better at night with the eyesight or is it easier during the day?
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: At the night, I think like because it's slow and you can return, you can play baseline, you can control ball, it's much better. A little bit colder. But I really don't know. I really don't know where is better for me play against Federer.
I beat him already two times. I already feeling good. (Smiling.)
Q. In your head is Federer still the favorite?
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: Maybe. Yes, yes. Like he always for me favorite. But in the court, I try already change my mind. You know, I feel ‑‑ if I feel I have chance to win set, and next set, I realize. That's was I did last two matches.
Q. For years you've said you don't want to be a star and you don't mind playing on the back courts. But you seem to have quite a profile here. Has this been fun? What's it been like?
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: I don't say ‑‑ I like to play show court. I don't want to play Court 20 or 22. It's too windy there. For sure I would like to play in show courts. Maybe not center court, but another courts.
Q. Has this been a fun week for you being in the public eye a little bit more than usual?
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: You mean now, in this moment?
Q. Jim Courier is interviewing you on the court. That didn't happen in years past. This room is full.
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: Yeah. That's was surprising. Why you guys here? (Laughter.) Just I don't know what has change. Why you come now and you asking me some private questions? I don't know. It's you. You need to ask yourself why you come here.
Q. We're interested in you, but do you believe this is your Grand Slam? Do you believe this is the one for you?
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: After today, you know, five‑set match, I win two sets. Yeah, like if I can just play in three‑sets matches I believe, you know, I can win. But if you see two sets won and then have chance in the fourth, but you never know. Because long match, five sets, today was good practice, four hours.
Mentally I still strong. That's was I believe I am still strong mentally. I don't know if I can win here, but tennis I try be good now, you know, feeling good.
Q. Have you allowed yourself to dream that it might be this time?
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: Dream? No, no. No, I never dream. Maybe in the night, but not in the day.
Q. Seems that Prince has found your phone number again. They offered a contract with the racquets again.
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: Just for Grand Slam. Because it's big tournament, I think for Prince it's be okay.
Q. You said last year all the money was for Sharapova.
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: Yes. Still like this. Nothing change.
Q. What will you get up to tomorrow? What's your normal day off?
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: Tomorrow, practicing. Really today do massage and relax and just try my body prepare for the match, for quarterfinal. I want to be fit for sure. Four hours for me today, it's difficult match.
That's was I hope I be top fit for quarterfinal against Hewitt or Federer.
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Wywiad po przegranym meczu 1/4 AO:
Q. You had your opportunities. It was a great game. Where did you miss out? Why didn't you take your chances?
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: Again, again, again, like the same what was happen last time in Grand Slam. Have chance and I didn't realize, and I lost.
Today, I don't know, it was complete different. I have good confidence in beginning and play well first set. Second set, I have so many chance to win, make breakpoints. I think it's just one game. I don't know what's happened there, like after 3‑1 in the second set.
I can win this game, and for sure after this one, if I be 4‑1, I have chance to win, like 99% chance win second set. But change something, 3‑2, and I lost then everything. Just I cannot come back losing so many games. Like up 6‑3, 6‑0, and, you know, already 1‑All, and really I don't know what's can happen.
Like say matches, okay, five‑set matches. But it's was already was in the second set. I lost second and third set, and so easy. I cannot explain yet what's happen.
Q. You had three brilliant points to save the match in the 11th game of fourth set. There were two returns that were particularly breathtaking.
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: Yes, I have chance again. If you see in fourth set 4‑3 for me and I have Love‑40 of serve Federer, but I have no chance. He have all five serves so good. But like say, bad luck for me again in the fourth set.
Yes, I again have chance by 5‑All. I lost my serve fighting. But, again, bad luck. I don't know why. Maybe Federer was really lucky today. (Laughter.) Again.
Q. If it wasn't a Grand Slam would you have won it?
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: I really don't know. Maybe. But if you say I lost in three sets match. If it's not be a Grand Slam, I cannot really tell now for sure if I can win if it's not be Grand Slam. I don't think so it's not about Grand Slam.
For sure I can holding concentration longer. It's not only one and a half sets. For sure, like if you see I play fourth set also not bad. But Federer sometimes play very well. Sometimes I have really no chance he play fast, long.
If I saw here ‑‑ like in beginning he play shot and I have always chance make my game, and then he start to play longer, faster, and he pushing me back and I start to lose my power. Then everything.
Q. You feel you were a different player after the 3‑1 in the second set?
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: For sure, yes.
Q. On the court did you feel the difference?
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: You see different if you lose every game in the row, you know. Like do mistake before I didn't know mistake. Mostly every baseline games I won. And then I start to lose everything. Serve today was surprising. Today I have no first serve. That was really bad luck for me.
But I remember every time I play against him last two matches I won, I have good first serve. If in important points my first serve was good and I realize points and I won.
Today was everything from the second and like 50/50. Just baseline and, you know, losing already 6‑Love third set, confidence really go down.
Q. Describe how Roger played in the second and third set.
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: Not so big different. A little bit ‑‑ I tell like before. A little bit start to play longer. Maybe he begin have a little bit more confidence. Have to less mistake, and sometimes have good forehand fast. You know, make winners. Starting get better serve.
If you see, I have much more first serve and really I can't return.
Q. What was going through your mind as you were losing all those games?
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: Pissed off. (Laughter.) What else? Yeah. Like say I'm pissed off of my serve. Pissed off. I didn't realize this point, I didn't realize this point. It's like everything was shit (laughter.)
But what else? Bad luck. Go home tomorrow, relax.
Q. It's good you can laugh about it now. Many players would be pissed off after the match. You're laughing now.
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: Yeah, with you guys, what I need to do?
Q. Roger said at times the sun had a bit of an affect on him and had a bit of a breeze as well. Did you have any affect from that?
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: Not much, but if you see like with sun, have maybe balls was faster. Then starting slow and slow. For me it was slow and for me I think have more confidence. A little bit was windy from one side. That's was control really all match was difficult.
If you change sides it's like you play with wind and against wind. I would say you need to be talent. You need for sure like Federer. You know, to be like perfect. To play everywhere good and like after, you know, losing first set and already in the second set losing, and then come back and winning 6‑Love. He's No. 1.
Q. Do you still think you can win a Grand Slam?
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: Australian Open not anymore, you know. (Smiling.) But tennis, my tennis is better. For sure it's better. I think so, yes.
I think I still have chance. I don't know this year. I have good chance Paris, US Open. Depends like how I apply, you know, in other tournaments and how my, you know, feeling in other Masters Series tournaments.
Like if you go to America, Indian Wells, Miami. Really if I beat against Federer in these tournaments, maybe have much more confidence.
Q. You had a good tournament. What's something positive you'll take away from Melbourne?
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: I lost today. I don't know positive. Because I didn't play last year here, and positive I have points. Plus, these points, for me, it's important my ranking be good position, you know, top 10. That's was always what I play now. Winning matches and do good result.
I still in good position ranking. It's much more important for me.
Q. Was the extra media attention positive for you?
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: I don't know. It's your choice.
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IW - Davydenko Out With Broken Wrist
A broken left wrist has forced Nikolay Davydenko to withdraw from the BNP Paribas Open at the third round stage, where he was scheduled to meet Serbian Viktor Troicki.
No. 6-ranked Davydenko, who won the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals in London to finish the 2009 season and the Doha title to begin 2010, reached the Australian Open quarter-finals (l. to Federer) and then the Rotterdam semi-finals, where he initially injured his wrist in a loss to Robin Soderling.
Having retired in the second round of the Barclays Dubai Tennis Championships against Michael Berrer last month, Davydenko managed to win his opening match in Indian Wells against Ernests Gulbis on Saturday. But an MRI scan on Sunday revealed for the first time that the 28-year-old Russian's wrist was in fact fractured.
Davydenko's wrist is expected to be in a splint for the next four weeks.
Troicki, meanwhile, receives a walkover into the fourth round, where he'll meet either Tomas Berdych or Fernando Verdasco.
Jak tam stan zdrowia Davydenki ? Bedzie juz gotowy do gry w Madrycie ?
Bizon napisał:
Jak tam stan zdrowia Davydenki ? Bedzie juz gotowy do gry w Madrycie ?
Brak potwierdzonych informacji. Na liście graczy ciągle wisi, ale czytałem też spekulacje, że nie pojawi się na korcie do końca sezonu ceglanego.
Davydenko wraca na korty, zagra w Halle.
Źródło (po niemiecku) http://www.gerryweber-open.de/de/aktuel … &jahr=2010
Dobrze wiedziec ze Denko powoli posklejany, Del Potro juz tak dobrze nie ma. Ciekawy jestem teraz polityki startowej Rosjanina. Czy dalej bedzie rozgrywal on ponad 25 turniejow w sezonie, czy tez moze ograniczy liczbe startow do WS, Mastersow + 3, max 4 wazne dla niego turnieje nizszej kategorii. Latka leca i trzeba dbac o zdrowie jezeli chce sobie jeszcze pograc, w poprzednim sezonie rowniez mial dluzsza przerwe z powodu kontuzji, a czestotliwosc gier sie nie zmienila.
Davydenko prepares to return to tennis in Halle
Nikolay Davydenko, the Russian who has been out of tennis since March when an injury to his wrist that caused him to withdraw from Dubai was discovered to be a fracture, will return in Halle next week and is also scheduled to play a couple of matches at the Stoke Park exhibition the week before Wimbledon. The world No 5 and winner of the Barclays ATP World Tour finals last year is eager to make up for lost ranking opportunities, for he was only 420 ranking points behind Andy Murray when the last list was published.
Davydenko Confirms Halle Participation
Nikolay Davydenko, the reigning Barclays ATP World Tour Finals champion, will stage his comeback on the ATP World Tour at the 18th edition of the Gerry Weber Open in Halle, starting on Monday.
The Russian has been out of competition since mid-March with a scaphoid bone fracture to his left wrist. Davydenko sustained the injury when falling during his semi-final match against Robin Soderling at the ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament in Rotterdam in February.
Not having been diagnosed with the fracture immediately, Davydenko continued playing and won matches at the Barclays Dubai Tennis Championships and the BNP Paribas Open at Indian Wells before being forced to stop playing after getting the correct diagnosis.
“I’ve never practiced as much as I am at the moment, and I came back being stronger than before when returning from injuries in the past,” admitted Davydenko, who has been practising at his brother, Eduard’s, tennis academy and doing rehabilitation work in Cologne. “I’m already hitting my backhand 60 to 70 per cent.
“I need match practice and I will get this on the grass courts at the Gerry Weber Open,“ added the Russian, who will make his fourth appearance in Halle.
Davydenko, who turns 29 on 2 June, also talked about what his success at the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals in London has meant to him.
“The World Champion title gave me a lot of power and confidence. I’m not as negative towards myself anymore after the title. Today I see the positive, for example what I have reached in my career so far.“
Dawidienko wraca
Nikołaj Dawidienko wraca na kort. Rosyjski tenisista, który w połowie marca w Indian Wells nabawił się kontuzji nadgarstka, planuje start w turnieju w Halle, rozpoczynającym się w najbliższy poniedziałek.
Spóźnione życzenia dla Nikolaya. Davydenko skończył wczoraj 29 lat, wszystkiego najlepszego. ;)
Ranking: 5
Najwyższy ranking: 3
Tytuły/finały: 20/5
WS (T/F): 0/0
Mastersy (T/F): 3/0
WTF: 1/1
Zarobki: $13,732,249
Daydenko bez trenera.
Były nr3 rankingu światowego zakończył swoją współpracę z bratem, Eduardem. Eduard zakomunikował Kolyi, że zamierza całkowicie poświęcić się karierze swojego syna, Philipa, który marzy o karierze zawodowego tenisisty.
Eduard był trenerem brata niemal od zawsze. Pod Jego okiem wygrał 20 różnego rodzaju turniejów rangi ATP Tour.
Former world No. 3 Nikolay Davydenko will reportedly not have the assistance of his coach/brother Eduard Davydenko on a week-to-week basis anymore.
Davydenko’s wife Irina broke down the situation to Lifesports.ru regarding the families’ coach-player relationship.
“He needs the presence of a coach more than Nikolay,” said Irina, who was alluding to Eduard focusing his attention on his 17-year-old son Philip.
Philip Davydenko is currently beginning his trek up the professional ranks. The 17-year-old has played two Future events this year.
Starting from Zero
It was just seven months ago that Nikolay Davydenko was forced to declare, "I am not Paris Hilton."
The Russian had just won the ATP World Tour Finals and the ATP tour event in Doha, defeating Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal on the way both times. At the Australian Open, he was being touted as a potential Grand Slam threat for the first time in his career.
Though he insisted he didn't want fame, Davydenko blossomed under the spotlight, displaying a previously well-hidden sense of humor with quips like, "Then nobody [was] scared [of me]. Now it's everyone scared," and "I don't drink so much because, you see—I'm skinny."
"It's interesting. We're not talking about tennis," he told reporters in Melbourne. "We're talking about my life. This is my first experience like this in the press."
It made a nice change from his previous brush with notoriety, which came when he was at the center of a match-fixing scare in the summer of 2007.
Davydenko's run of good results also left him feeling good about his game. "It's interesting feeling. Now I feel like I can beat everyone," he said then. "I start to go to the net. I start to make some points volley, make so many winners volley. Maybe a little bit better serve sometimes."
Once conspicuous for his lack of endorsements, Davydenko even had racquet companies fighting over him. In March, Prince and Dunlop issued dueling press releases claiming he was endorsing their brand.
Right at that time, however, he also discovered that a pain in his right wrist was the due to a fracture in the joint. The injury ended up sidelining him for three months. For a player famous for playing just about every week he could, going for so long without competing was unfathomable.
In an interview with TENNIS.com earlier this month, Davydenko described the period as "enjoy, and [then] frustrated."
"Enjoy—I don't play, take rest," he said in his distinctive brand of English. "[But] then also I know will be tough comeback. That's how I feel now—tough."
Since returning in June, Davydenko has played eight events but failed to win consecutive matches until the Cincinnati Masters two weeks ago, when he battled through two three-setters before falling to Roger Federer in the quarterfinals.
"For me, if I take off, I need to come back from zero again," he said. "Mentally, is very difficult, because if I'm practicing good and then coming to the match and playing different tennis, I have mentally [a] problem."
He was a reluctant interviewee, talking in clipped tones—very different from the wisecracking dark horse entertaining the press earlier this year. Just like winning had become a habit at the beginning of the year, losing now feels like a vicious cycle.
"In beginning [of] year, is very good confidence because winning tournaments, you still have good confidence," he said. "But losing tournaments second match or first match, your feeling mentally, [the] psychology, is low. If I need to come back, I need [to be] winning more matches."
While Davydenko was sidelined, his brother and coach Eduard began to turn more of his attention to his son, aspiring pro Philip. Now he will no longer be travelling full time on the tour with Davydenko. Along with some informal help from his non-playing wife, Irina, Davyenko has also been using Scottish National Academy coach Marcel du Coudray as a hitting partner and coach.
Eduardo is back for the U.S. Open, however, with Davydenko trying to navigate a tough section of the draw that includes Novak Djokovic, Andy Roddick, Mardy Fish and Marcos Baghdatis.
He believes his form will return, but wonders how long it will take.
Just waiting, just practicing, coming to the tournaments. Try to find my game and wait what can happen," he said. "For sure it's coming back, but I don't know when."
US Open 2010 - wywiad po zwycięstwie w 1 rundzie
THE MODERATOR: Questions, please.
Q. Are you pleased with the way that you played out there today?
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: I am?
Q. Are you pleased? Are you happy?
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: Pleased? New word for me.
Q. That's all right. Content? Happy? Not happy?
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: Um, yeah, I'm happy to win, you know. Just it's always be happy winning matches. You know, it's just some small things what I need to do, you know, in couple days before my second match. Because I know in the first set I was nervous and play some different games. Just need to improve my baseline, because for sure I can play better. But, you know, fighting and playing matches maybe confidence be better and maybe game be better. Just not only practicing. You need to have matches and can be also feeling confidence and feeling balls and everything.
Q. You started the season very strong, but I know you were out with injury. If you could talk a little bit about your physical condition right now, are you able to go out there and play at 100% or less, and if you could describe, please.
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: I don't know, really. Today was -- for sure I will try always play 100%, but you don't know what's going to happening. Like today with balls, now is very warm. Is not warm; is very warm. Five set matches is really difficult, for sure. Like you play two hours or three hours, it's already different. But always be easy to win in three sets, and, you know, not losing, you know, so much power. Play like a long rally and then you already tired. For sure I am a little bit tired today but not like 100% tired. That's was I really don't know if my physically condition is pretty good for five sets. I need to see also. Depends how matches and how I play.
Q. So you're uncertain right now about your ability to really go out and be, you know, your full self? It sounds to me you are a bit uncertain about your condition.
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: Yeah, I never tell before or after my first match I am very good shape and I can win tournament. I just be easy and just say, I'm okay. You know, just concentration for the second match. (Smiling.) I don't know what's going to happen.
Q. How has the season been for you, though? You had some weeks off and then you came back. Do you feel like you've been playing better tennis coming into the event?
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: You know, for sure be at holiday much better. You know, feel much easy, you know, nothing to do and feel comfortable. It's enjoy life. Then, you know, come back to tennis, and, ah, start to be in -- for sure I am happy now come back, have recover from injury and feeling now in the tournament. I like to play, you know, more tournament matches. But tennis is different. Not better. For sure not better. Before my injury I feel much more confidence and I feel much more stronger. Now, like guys say, top-10 players, Yeah, if you play matches, you feel like top-10. In the moment, I don't feel like this. I don't feel like I play like top-10 player now, not in this time. Maybe. Depends how are my matches coming, how I fighting, how many matches I win. Then I can feel it. Then I can say if I feel very good and if I can play like top-10 player.
Q. What is the difference between top-10 player level and your level at this moment?
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: Maybe like every players like try, you know, to do no mistake or just hitting like balls like have -- top-10 player have more concentration in the important point. Then if you have chance, you realize this chance. Like you have like 90% chance to win this point. Another player just fighting and losing. It's always be like this.
Q. When you come back from a broken wrist, what is the most difficult thing to recover in your game?
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: Head. Mentally problem. Because you always practicing. You can play forehand, backhand, but for sure it's important on the match what you need to do with forehand and backhand. That's it. You can hit balls, but where you hit and how you hit, that's the much important. That's was everything it's important in your mind, like concentration and you see how the ball finally -- where you need to play and everything. That's very difficult. That's was if I play more matches, then I know for sure how I need to play and where I need to play.
Q. Did you feel something maybe click in Cincinnati?
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: For sure, yes. Two matches get like small, you know, help to play better. For sure it's like every match what I win is give me something.
But I'm person is not like coming from one match and I say like, Oh, now I feel like good shape. Sometimes like I can play beginning tournament, and I remember I was play not so good here and I coming twice in semifinal, you know, in US Open. But in beginning I just fighting. I don't play so well. I don't play like top-10 player. But, you know, step by step, and really helping, you know, a little bit lucky, fighting, winning points, winning matches. And then coming, you know, just already in the third match you feel already much better and you play much better.
Q. You have a lot of points to defend till the end of the year. Are you anxious for your ranking?
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: Not much, no. No. I know I can like say after maybe like China, Asia tour I can be out from top 10. But, you know, it's life. It's just if I can do result, maybe I can defend points; maybe not. You know, we have some tournaments. If I not coming to London, I have more time for rest. I have more time for enjoy, you know, time, holiday, and preparation for the next season.
Q. How do you estimate your chances to be back in London in the Masters?
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: Winning tournaments. You know, there's only one chance what I can do. Winning all Grand Slam or Masters or two Masters, you know, just to get some points for the London.
Q. What's your coaching situation right now? How much of a role, if any, does your wife have in it?
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: You want to be my coach?
Q. Are you taking applications?
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: No, my brother is my coach. He is here. Yeah, I don't know which press give it some information I was with, you know, my brother not anymore with me. I just tell some tournaments he not with me. That's was my wife is always with me. And my brother coming for some Grand Slam tournaments, big tournaments, but not every tournaments. He's always be my coach, because if I go home I practice with him. Just sometimes I need some help and I just have another coach who just helping me by the tournaments, like in Toronto, Cincinnati, and maybe in another tournaments in the futures.
Q. Question about Richard Gasquet. Do you think he can go back in the top 10?
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: He was good player. For sure is also head problem. Not about tennis. He play very good tennis. It's like if he was already like in top-20 and top-10, why not? You know, always you can come back. It's not big problem. Or maybe not. Have two choice, yes or no. (Smiling.)
W dniu dzisiejszym Davydenko odniósł swoje 400 zwycięstwo w ATP World Tour.
Kola wygrał w China Open z Marinem Ciliciem 7-5 7-5.
Davydenko Records 400th Match Win
Russian Nikolay Davydenko became the eighth active player on the ATP World Tour circuit to win 400 matches in his career (400-243) on Wednesday.
The fourth seed reached the milestone by defeating World No. 14 Marin Cilic of Croatia 7-5, 7-5 in one hour and 54 minutes at the China Open in Beijing.
“It was a very good match for me,” said Davydenko, who is playing his second tournament with a new racquet. “[My] baseline [play] was good control and I played fast.”
It was Davydenko’s first win over Cilic and his 25th win of an injury-hit season, highlighted by one ATP World Tour title at the Qatar ExxonMobil Open in Doha (d. Nadal).
Davydenko will next challenge American John Isner, who won a big-serving encounter against Philipp Kohlschreiber of Germany 7-6(3), 3-6, 6-3 in two hours and 13 minutes, hitting 20 aces to Kohlschreiber’s 13 aces.
World No. 22 Isner improved to a 33-19 season record. He has a 1-3 record in ATP World Tour finals, picking up his first title at the Heineken Open in Auckland (d. Clement) in January.
Davydenko's Pre-Match Press Conference
An interview with:NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO
THE MODERATOR: Welcome to the Shanghai Rolex Masters. It's a pleasure to have Nikolay Davydenko here, the defending champion. We'll open up the floor to questions.
Q. As the defending champion, any pressure this year? There are a lot of top players here.
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: Not so much because, you know, you always have pressure if you feel you can qualify for the Masters London because is already players just to see what is my points and, you know, how many points I need.
Really for me is different situation. I know I will not qualify for London this year. Just enjoying now my last couple tournaments what I play this year and take rest before early, just practicing, preparation for the next season in December.
Q. What was your impression when you first came to China? Now you're a world famous tennis player and what is your impression now on China?
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: I don't know, guys. You tell me I'm famous now in China (laughter). It just surprising, you know, how your country, city change every year. It looks more beautiful.
I don't know, people start to speak more English really. Is be interesting. Like I saw yesterday coming from airport in the night, really beautiful city, EXPO and everything. Really surprising me how you build so fast here.
I know you have millions people here, but build fast is really amazing. That's was really enjoy to be already here in Asia like six years. Every year I saw something different really surprising me.
Q. Have you been to EXPO?
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: No. I think you need to spend completely one day because it's huge, is big.
Do you be there?
Q. Actually not.
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: You see, that's what's was the question to you guys. You be there before you asking me (laughter).
Q. Do you have any plan to be there?
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: Well, it's depends what you like to see or what you like to buy there, what the reason to go and to find there.
If something be interesting for me, if I want to buy something, sure I would like to go to EXPO to find something and buy. But in the moment, I have everything. I don't know if I really go there now this year.
Q. We know the top two players - Nadal and Djokovic - are still playing at this time. You have more time for preparation for this Shanghai Masters. What do you think about your chance in this tournament?
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: Federer is not here? He don't have preparation? I think most guy who is coming here before is Federer. Really stay here all week and have preparation for Shanghai. Everybody play tournaments. Everybody, like, coming here before have preparation, but how long preparation.
I have just practicing today and tomorrow. I have already tomorrow match. Preparation is like if you stay, like, one week before and practicing here, just try to concentrate only for this tournament.
We travel every week. For sure we want to have good preparation. For sure we want to play good and have winning tournaments here. But you never know what's can happen. It depends against who you play and how another players also feel and how playing.
I'm defending champion. For sure I play very good last year and before also first final for me. I don't know, maybe to be lucky also very important. Have everything, good confidence, to play well, winning couple first matches, and maybe can possible to win tournament.
Q. What do you think of your draw in the Shanghai Masters? Do you look and think about it? Is it hard or easy for you?
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: I didn't see draw. I just know against who I play my first match. I don't know yet. But I saw already. I know is all top 20 guys is here. That's what's was the reason to see draw. If everybody play here, it's already not interesting to see against who I play. Anyone from top 10 or top 20 already in the second or third round. That's was for sure you really meet good players from the beginning.
Q. I saw you change your racquet sponsor. Could you tell us more detail?
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: Why now to speak English start (smiling)?
Yes, I change my sponsor already this year before Indian Wells, like signing contract with Dunlop, with tennis clothes and tennis racquet. But I played with Prince racquet before. For me now is the third tournament what I start to play with Dunlop racquet. That's was I also change to Dunlop.
I really enjoy and I for sure want to continue play with Dunlop stuff and racquet. Maybe two more years I play with Dunlop.
THE MODERATOR: Thank you, everyone.
Nikolay Davydenko will play a better game than he talks in Shanghai
Nikolay Davydenko's English lends itself to chuckles and he acknowledges his season has dwindled away to irrelevance – but Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer know the erratic Russian will be one dangerous joker in the Shanghai Masters this week.
He beat Nadal to win this trophy last year – and went on to beat the Spaniard and Federer in the World Tour Finals in London, as well as in Doha at the start of 2010, completing a rare double over the two best players of his era. David Nalbandian is the only other player to manage that feat in two separate official tournaments.
Davydenko's season, though, has veered between promise and serial disappointment and, although holding on to sixth place in the ATP world rankings, three months out with an injured wrist spiked not only his chances in the major tournaments but any hope of returning to the O2 next month.
He had his Chinese audience amused and bemused when he admitted in broken English fractured into further shards, no doubt, en route to Mandarin: "I know I will not qualify for London this year [so] just enjoying now my last couple tournaments what I play this year and take rest before early, just practising, preparation for the next season in December."
If that translates roughly as don't put your rickshaw on my winning here, it would be as well not to take Davydenko seriously; he will be dead keen to resurrect something from the ashes of a wretched summer.
He expressed mild surprise that Federer, who has not played since losing to Novak Djokovic at the US Open, had not arrived early to practice for a tournament he has played nine times.
The Swiss will need no incentive beyond pride, though, to get his game back to working order when he does arrive tomorrow. He is burning to reclaim his No1 position and a fifth victory here would convince him it is not an unreasonable ambition.
Nadal, who beat Gaël Monfils to win in Tokyo today and is on the crest of a surreal wave of form, is another late arrival, along with Andy Murray.
The tournament organisers plan to showcase the top four – Federer, Nadal, Murray and Djokovic – on what they are billing as Super Wednesday. Davydenko does not figure in those plans and instead will be the warm-up act on Tuesday – probably against the Ukrainian Sergiy Stakhovsky. While Davydenko has reached the quarter-finals only three times in 12 tournaments since the Australian Open in January, a semi-final here against Nadal is not a laughable proposition.
Davydenko finally makes switch to Dunlop frame
Nikolay Davydenko has begun playing with a Dunlop racquet, having made the switch after the U.S. Open.
Davydenko signed an equipment contract with Dunlop in March but had continued to play with a Prince racquet.
After losing in the first round of Kuala Lumpur, he reached the quarterfinals in Beijing last week, only the second time he has won two matches in a row since returning from a wrist injury in June.
"I just change racquet, and it's my second tournament and really start from zero," he said at Beijing. "Mentally, for sure, different feeling, and need to maybe play differently. But I run the same, fast, and just need to control."
Davydenko has significant ranking points to defend this fall, having won the Shanghai Masters and World Tour Finals in London last year. But the Russian said he was not feeling the pressure ahead of his title defense in Shanghai.
"Not so much," he said. "You always have pressure if you feel you can qualify for the Masters London... Really for me is different situation. I know I will not qualify for London this year. Just enjoying now my last couple tournaments what I play this year and take rest before preparation for the next season in December."
Dawidienko, rok później: od bohatera do anonima
Nikołaj Dawidienko wciąż zajmuje szóste miejsce w rankingu ATP World Tour, ale najprawdopodobniej nie zakończy tego sezonu nawet w czołowej dziesiątce. Był bohaterem poprzedniego sezonu, a ten rok miał należeć do niego. Nic z tego.
Nikołaj Dawidienko, 29 lat, urodził się w Sewieriodoniecku na Ukrainie (foto Dombrowski)
W niedzielę wystartował turniej Masters 1000 w Szanghaju, gdzie Dawidienko w poprzedniej edycji pokonał Novaka Đokovicia i Rafę Nadala. Potem pojechał na finały cyklu World Tour (Masters dla ośmiu najlepszych zawodników sezonu), gdzie także wygrał, osiągając życiowy sukces.
Podczas Masters opowiadał o tym, jak po raz pierwszy w życiu rozdaje dużo autografów i o tym, że z powodu wątłej sylwetki nie jest stereotypowym Rosjaninem wlewającym w siebie litry wódki. Dziś nie ma nawet szans na wyjazd do Londynu. Powód: od lutego, kiedy na jego grę poważnie zaczęła wpływać kontuzja nadgarstka, tylko raz wygrał dwa mecze w tym samym turnieju (w Nowym Jorku).
W Szanghaju (jest zaskoczony szybkością rozwoju miasta) w związku z rolą obrońcy tytułu nie czuje jednak, że ciąży na nim większa presja niż zwykle: - Jeżeli walczy się o Masters, presja nigdy nie znika. Ale ja do Masters już się nie zakwalifikuję - mówi. - Chcę po prostu cieszyć się z tych kilku ostatnich turniejów w tym roku. Skończę sezon wcześniej niż zwykle, a w grudniu rozpocznę przygotowania do kolejnego.
Przed imprezą w Indian Wells w marcu Rosjanin zmienił producenta rakiet (kiedyś grał Prince, teraz Dunlopem). Szanghaj jest trzecim turniejem, w którym wystąpi z nowym sprzętem.
We wtorek lub środę Dawidienko, po wolnym w I rundzie, w 1/16 finału spotka się ze zwycięzcą pojedynku Mischa Zverev - Serhij Stachowskij. W ćwierćfinale może dojść do meczu Dawidienko - Nadal.
Dawidienko, historia upadku
Złamany nadgarstek, wielka presja, zmiana producenta rakiety, brak wskazówek brata czy zwykłe wypalenie? Nikołaj Dawidienko, jeden z najbardziej regularnych tenisistów w ostatnich latach, najpewniej zakończy sezon poza Top 20.
A to miał być jego sezon. Po fantastycznej końcówce w roku ubiegłym i świetnym początku w styczniu Rosjanin napotkał jednak problemy, które w konsekwencji doprowadziły do jego degrengolady. Od lutego tylko dwukrotnie zdarzyło się, że wygrał dwa mecze z rzędu: już nie zasługuje na to, by być w czołowej dziesiątce obok wielkoszlemowych finalistów Đokovicia i Berdycha.
Przypadek Dawidienki, który po stracie punktów za triumf w Masters (nie obroni tytułu, bo nie ma nawet szans, by się tam zakwalifikować) prawdopodobnie po raz pierwszy od stycznia 2005 roku wypadnie poza Top 20, pokazuje do czego prowadzi brak motywacji. - Presja jest gdy walczy się o Masters. Ja chcę po prostu cieszyć się z kilku ostatnich turniejów w tym roku - mówił w Szanghaju, jeszcze zanim "potknął się" na pierwszym rywalu.
Przed Masters jeden wielki turniej dla wszystkich: Paryż-Bercy (Masters 1000, od 7 listopada). Teoretycznie szansa także dla Dawidienki, ale czy z jego podejściem jest w stanie jeszcze coś osiągnąć w tym roku? - Robiłem błędy w wymianach, które zwykłem grać dobrze. Próbowałem analizować te błędy, by znaleźć przyczynę złej gry, ale nie bardzo wiedziałem co zmienić - powiedział bezradny w Moskwie, gdzie w środę jako najwyżej rozstawiony znów odpadł w I rundzie.
Ważną personą w życiu Kolii jest, oprócz żony, brat. - Zwykle to on daje mi wskazówki. Tym razem go jednak ze mną nie ma: to też problem dla mnie - powiedział młodszy z Dawidienków. Edwarda nie ma i - jakiekolwiek byłyby obiektywne nawet powody tej nieobecności - to też świadczy o upadku morale w teamie. W ojczyźnie, w stolicy? Kolia urodził się wprawdzie na terenie dzisiejszej Ukrainy, grę w tenisa doskonalił w Niemczech i nawet nie pije tyle co Rosjanie (- Bo jestem chudy - tłumaczy), którzy go na dodatek do ubiegłego roku słabo kojarzyli, ale to on jest dziś najbardziej utytułowanym wciąż aktywnym singlistą z byłego ZSRR.
Dziś Dawidienko spadł w rankingu za o rok młodszego Michaiła Jużnego, dwukrotnego półfinalistę US Open. Dawidienko był na początku roku poważnym kandydatem do tytułu w Australian Open, ale w ćwierćfinale lepszy okazał się Roger Federer. Potem pojawiła się sprawa złamanego nadgarstka, którą to zrazu zbagatelizowano i to był błąd. Wcześniej podpisał umowę z Dunlopem (dotąd grał rakietą Prince), ale nowym sprzętem (- To nie to, czego szukałem. Musimy z bratem coś w tej rakiecie zmienić) zaczął grać dopiero w drugiej połowie sezonu.
Rok temu nazywali go Play Station, bo grał tak skutecznie, jakby w grze wideo ktoś włączył najwyższy poziom trudności. Mistrz Sopotu z 2006 i Warszawy z 2008 roku, w sumie zwycięzca 20 turniejów premierowego cyklu (z Masters jako wisienką na torcie), rówieśnik Federera.
Czy po tym wszystkim nie przegapił ostatniej szansy na wpisanie się do panteonu mistrzów wielkoszlemowych? Czy końcówka jego kariery będzie tak samo nieefektowna i nieatrakcyjna jak w przypadku Marata Safina?
Nie będę śledził Masters, bo mnie nie interesuje
Rok po największym sukcesie w karierze Nikołaj Dawidienko kończy sezon poza Top 20 rankingu ATP. Tytułu w Masters bronić nie będzie, ale wysyła wiadomość do kolegów: on jest przykładem na to, że każdy może sięgnąć w Londynie po zwycięstwo.- Od kilku miesięcy byłem już pogodzony z myślą, że nie zakwalifikuję się do Masters - mówi Rosjanin w rozmowie z madryckim dziennikiem "Marca". - Od kiedy z powodu kontuzji prawego nadgarstka musiałem poddać się w Indian Wells, moja absencja była coraz bardziej pewna.
Dawidienko to jeden z najbardziej regularnych zawodników czołówki ostatnich lat: w Masters (od ubiegłego roku Finały ATP World Tour, wcześniejsza nazwa to Masters Cup) występował nieprzerwanie w latach 2005-9.
-A teraz nie będę nawet śledził tego turnieju - zapowiada. - Nie zakwalifikowałem się, więc mnie nie interesuje.
- Jestem przykładem tego, że każdy może sięgnąć w Masters po tytuł - mówi. Wśród faworytów rozpoczynającej się w niedzielę edycji nie widzi wcale Rafy Nadala: - Nie wierzę w niego zbytnio, bo nigdy nie przeszedł półfinału. Federer za to ma zawsze to, co się liczy w takich turniejach. Murray gra przed swoją publicznością, ale to zawsze oznacza presję. Tak naprawdę każdy może wygrać.
29-letnia Kolia kontynuowanie lub nie kariery uzależnia od tego, co stanie się w roku 2011: - Przede wszystkim nie chcę się zmuszać do grania. Jeżeli będę potrafił utrzymać się wśród 20 lub 30 najlepszych, będę wciąż grał. Jeżeli spadnę w rankingu niżej, odłożę rakietę - tłumaczy.
Za triumf w Londynie zarobił ponad półtora miliona dolarów, które chciał przeznaczyć na nowe cztery ściany w Moskwie: - Wykorzystałem w tym roku te trzy miesiące poza tenisem, by ogarnąć sprawy z domem, jaki chciałem. Ale muszę przystopować, bo z tym co wygrałem w tym roku, musiałbym pograć jeszcze 10 lat, żeby kupić inne lokum - śmieje się.
Dawidienko o popularności: - Chciałbym, żeby pamiętano mnie z powodu wygranych turniejów, których mam 20. To normalne, że w Hiszpanii będę popularniejszy niż w Rosji, gdzie ludzie mniej interesują się tenisem. Ale ja byłem przez pięć lat w czołowej piątce i myślę, że każdy kto śledzi rozgrywki doskonale wie kim jest Nikołaj Dawidienko.
Strasznie skromny ten Davydenko, az za bardzo i to chyba jest jego problemem jezeli chodzi o popularnosc.
Czas odkopać trochę Kolę. ;-)
The Last Word: ATP No. 22, Nikolay Davydenko
Davydenko finished the year outside
the Top 10 for the first time since 2004.
Best of 2010
Empowered by his 2009 ATP World Tour Finals victory, Davydenko opened the year on a tear, winning nine consecutive matches, including back-to-back wins over Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal in Doha. The Russian took the title and joined David Nalbandian as only men to beat Federer and Nadal in the same tournament on two different occasions.
Worst of 2010
Davydenko was sidelined for 11 weeks after breaking his left wrist in Indian Wells and struggled to regain his form and confidence upon his return. He wasn’t overly successful in either endeavor as his 12-2 start degenerated into an 18-17 finish, including post-U.S. Open losses to No. 102 Igor Andreev, No. 118 Mischa Zverev and No. 71 Pablo Cuevas—opponents Davydenko can carve up when playing well.
Year in Review
Typically one of the leaders in matches played, Davydenko’s injury-induced break limited him to 49 contests, his lowest total since 2002. The two-time French Open semifinalist missed the entire clay-court season, and though he returned for the grass-court stretch in June, he never came close to the high level of play he produced at the beginning of the year. Following his straight-sets loss to Richard Gasquet at the U.S. Open, a candid Davydenko conceded he had no clue where his shots were going at times and made the switch from a Prince racquet to Dunlop’s new Biomimetic 200 Plus frame.
See for Yourself
Though the Russian is so slight that some ball boys could bench press him (154 lbs), watch Davydenko employ his quickness, ability to take the ball on the rise and fast, flat shots to save match points, negate a 34-pound weight disparity and subdue Nadal in the Doha final:
The Last Word
At his best, the 29-year-old Davydenko can crack the ball so cleanly you might find yourself wondering if his strings have been disinfected with Lysol. Only three men in the Top 25—Nadal, Federer and Andy Roddick—have claimed more career titles than Davydenko, who has won at least one tournament for eight straight years. Though advancing age, mounting match mileage and his desire to have children may suggest an impending slide, Davydenko’s textbook groundstrokes allow him to dictate play from the center of the court and make even the game’s heaviest hitters take a step back (he has won five of his last six hard-court meetings with Nadal). If he can stay healthy—and find the range with the new frame—a Top 10 return is possible.
2010 w liczbach
Ranking: 22
Tytuły: 1 (Doha)
Finały: 0
Bilans gier: 30-19
Zarobki: $948,392
Finał w Doha na początek 2011 roku
Nikolay Davydenko od finału w Doha rozpoczął kolejny sezon startów na światowych kortach. Broniący tytuły Rosjanin musiał w meczu o tytuł uznać wyższość Rogera Federera. Davydenko przegrał swój 6 finał ATP w karierze, ale mimo to może poszczycić się znakomitym bilansem pojedynków finałowych: 20-6.
Przegrane finały (6)
2011 (1) Doha (Outdoor/Hard)
2008 (2) Tennis Masters Cup (Indoor/Hard) , Estoril (Outdoor/Clay)
2006 (2) Bastad (Outdoor/Clay) , Estoril (Outdoor/Clay)
2003 (1) St. Poelten (Outdoor/Clay)
#21) Monachium 2011
R32 Andrey Kuznetsov (RUS) 6-1 7-6(4)
R16 Julian Reister (GER) 3-6 7-6(5) 6-1
Q Marin Cilic (CRO) 7-5 6-3
S Radek Stepanek (CZE) 6-3 4-0 krecz
W Florian Mayer (GER) 6-3 3-6 6-1
Hehe, fajna fota. :D Mam nadzieję, że Kolya nie złożył broni, jeśli idzie o wielkie turnieje i jeszcze powalczy z najlepszymi. ;)
RG 2011 - konferencja po zwycięstwie w 1 rundzie
http://www.rolandgarros.com/en_FR/multi … 000ab.html
RG 2011 - konferencja po porażce w 2 rundzie.
http://www.rolandgarros.com/en_FR/multi … 00136.html
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