Guillermo Coria
Guillermo Coria
Guillermo Sebastián Coria, nicknamed El Mago, is a retired professional tennis player from Argentina who was runner-up at the 2004 French Open and a former world no. 3. He was named after tennis champion and compatriot Guillermo Vilas...
ProfessionTennis Player
Date of Birth13 January 1982
confidence excellent losing luck player seems tremendous
I am not disappointed losing to Rafael (Nadal). He is an excellent player with tremendous confidence inside, and it seems luck is always on his side.
defeat incredible
I didn't want to go out with a 6-1 6-1 defeat. This was an incredible match.
ease few incredible kept later people responding shots sooner
I thought that sooner or later he would give up, or at least ease up. But he kept responding with incredible shots, shots that few people would have been able to come up with.
feeling four gets happening knew losing tight
I was losing feeling on the hand, ... It has been happening for four days. I had a lot of treatment...but during the match, the more I serve, the more it gets tight -- the forearm, the shoulder. I knew it could happen. That's just the way it is.
court fought goals left sure
He's always fought for his goals. He always left everything on court and off the court he's a fighter. I'm sure he'll be back.
faking
It was a misunderstanding. He (Massu) said, 'That's not a real injury, you're faking it,'. I said, 'No, it's real, I'm not faking it'.
conditions court easy energy good happy next rounds save since sure weather won
I am happy to have won this easy. It is good for the next rounds since I will save energy that I am sure I will be needing. It wasn't easy to play today. The weather conditions made the court very heavy.
full luckily match recover
Luckily by the end of the match I was able to recover my full speed.
knew last lost win
I knew that when I lost here last year, I wanted to come back and win it in 2004.
balls beginning bit high playing speed surprised
He started very fast. He was playing very high balls. I was a little bit surprised at his speed at the beginning of the match,
absolute mimicking point second talking tried
tried mimicking me right from the start. It was a distraction. Their captain, who has been mouthing off all about sportsmanship, is talking to the (chair umpire) on every second point of my serve. That's not sportsmanship ... that's absolute rubbish.
ridiculous rules
We think it's ridiculous he can't be there with us. He's very important to the team. It's incredible. The rules need to be changed.