SPAIN: JIRI NOVAK PULLS OUT OF FINAL OF MADRID MASTERS WITH LEG INJURY, ANDRE AGASSI WINS WITH WALKOVER.

Record ID: 969850

  • Title: SPAIN: JIRI NOVAK PULLS OUT OF FINAL OF MADRID MASTERS WITH LEG INJURY, ANDRE AGASSI WINS WITH WALKOVER.
  • Date: 20th October 2002
  • Summary: MADRID, SPAIN (OCTOBER 20, 2002) (ATP - SCHEDULED NEWS BULLETINS ONLY. NO ACCESS GERMANY, THE NETHERLANDS, NO ARCHIVE OR LIBRARY USE, NO INTERNET USE, SCHEDULED NEWS ONLY) 1. EXTERIOR MADRID ROCKODOME 2. JIRI NOVAK SITTING 3. CLOSE UP OF JIRI NOVAK'S LEG, PAN UP TO SEE HIS FACE 4. WIDE SHOT INTERIOR ARENA 5. (SOUNDBITE) (English) JIRI NOVAK SAYING: "...A big pain in my leg, I apologise to you, to the tournament, to all the people that I cannot start this match." 6. (SOUNDBITE) (English) ANDRE AGASSI SAYING "This is very disappointing the way the tournament has come to an end but nobody is more disappointed than Mr. Novak." 7. AUDIENCE APPLAUDING 8. ANDRE AGASSI WITH TROPHY 9. PHOTOGRAPHERS 10. AGASSI WITH TROPHY 11. CROWD 12. AGASSI AND NOVAK 13. (SOUNDBITE) (English) ANDRE AGASSI SPEAKING ABOUT BEING DISAPPOINTED IN THE WAY THE MATCH ENDED: "Oh yeah, I mean no question but ultimately you do have to worry about Jiri's health and how he is going to be feeling and hope its not too bad, and then your second concern is for the tournament, you're just real disappointed that a great week with so much sort of excitement, it was such a great week and to have such a disappointing ending and third, I feel like wow, I just sort of got left at the dance you know, but overall I just have to count the good things about this week and move on." 14. ANDRE AGASSI WAVES TO AUDIENCE AS HE LEAVES ARENA 15. (SOUNDBITE) (English) JIRI NOVAK SAYING "Ive got a problem with my leg, with my muscle, and I'm very sorry I couldn't play in this final but that's the tennis life and it sometimes happens you know. But it's a pity for me that I couldn't play because it was my first tennis match as finalist and especially against Andre Agassi so it was a big motivation for me to play but I couldn't play." Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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  • Location: MADRID, SPAIN
  • Country: Spain
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