29 Quotes by Ivan Ljubicic

It's my first Masters final. A lot of people will be against me. It's normal, like Davis Cup atmosphere.

It was a good first match, ... I had no problems at all, so I am quite confident for the tournament.

It takes time to realize how big this is, but I do realize it's huge for us, for our sport and our country, because we are really small.

After the third set, I thought I'm going to win because I felt everything much better. I think he was just pushing the ball back and running left and right. I think I was very unlucky in the fifth set not to get the break in the beginning, then to lose service game after.

Every time when I have to play against him, it's like, 'OK, maybe this is the one. But it's never happening. A couple times I was very close. I really just hope to be at least close on Sunday.

I really feel like this time is different. My tennis is totally different than it was before. I think this struggle time is over.

I played some great tennis there (in Metz), really. The confidence from the Davis Cup stayed there and I played fantastic all week.

I am number five in the world so I expect to play well. We made some mistakes and it got difficult but we hung in and won it.

I consider myself a top five player in the world, which doesn't mean that I'm close to Roger. I think he's really much better than I am, and probably anyone else.