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condividiSchuettler: "What a huge match!"
R. SCHUETTLER / A. Clément 6 3, 5 7, 7 6, 6 7, 8 6
Q. How do you rank this win in your best of?
RAINER SCHUETTLER: Definitely a huge one. I mean, I have to say it could go both ways. I'm just happy to made it through.
Definitely it's one of my matches I will always remember.
Q. Your reward is a match against Rafael Nadal. He's had obviously more time to recover than you. I think your match today was longer than his last matches in its entirety. How do you think you'll be physically tomorrow to face him?
RAINER SCHUETTLER: Of course he has an advantage anyways. He's pretty fit anyway.
But I don't really care. I also work hard. I'm physically fit. So I will get a massage later on and I try to go, if possible, to sleep early, that I have enough hours of sleep, and tomorrow I will be fine.
We played I think three hours today, and yesterday two. But when you play normal tournaments, you play on hard court or clay court, it's normal. You play two hours one day, and next day three hours, three and a half.
It's okay. Obviously he has an advantage, but I will be okay tomorrow. I'm not so tired.
Q. Can you talk about how it was coming back after the final rain break knowing that you maybe only had a few points to play, but a Wimbledon semifinal place at stake.
RAINER SCHUETTLER: Yeah, right in the beginning I was a little bit furious because I thought I was I served for the match. He had match points. He didn't make them. I served for the match.
I thought, Okay, that's the one. I played a horrible game. He just went for the shots. I think he played two return winners.
Then I had two breakpoints. Didn't make them. And I asked the umpire before, I said, It's slippery. Shouldn't we stop? He said, No, no, let's continue. I felt that it was a little bit slippery so I didn't make them. It was deuce.
Of course, I mean I had this chance. I went to the locker room. I was kind of furious with my coach. I was not really happy. But then I had some time to calm down. I came out and won it.
Q. What do you think you have to do to defeat Nadal tomorrow?
RAINER SCHUETTLER: To be honest with you, I'm so far away right now from that match. My coach said, Okay, tonight I have to really think about something we have to do tomorrow to win that match.
But I played him a few times. I played him once indoors in Basel and I beat him there, and since then he always beat me. So I have nothing to lose. I just go out there, have fun, try to make it as hard for him as possible, and then who knows.
I mean, today I was out of the tournament already, then I won it. Who knows what's going to happen tomorrow.
Q. British sportsfans have a tradition of favoring the underdog. Do you think that will happen to you tomorrow?
RAINER SCHUETTLER: I hope so. I'm definitely underdog, so I hope they support me.
Q. You joined Becker and Stich, the only German Wimbledon semifinalists in the Open era. Heck of an achievement whatever happens.
RAINER SCHUETTLER: For me, I mean, I growed up watching Boris win Wimbledon, so now I'm in the semis. I am more than happy. And only Boris and Michael made it so far.
Yeah, whatever happens happens anyways. I'm just happy to be in the semis.
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