It's not about stress over feud with AITA, it was a bad performance: Somdev

PTI : Chennai, Fri Jan 04 2013, 11:05 hrs

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Coming back to the match in which he committed a lot of unforced errors, he said, "I started off tentatively. It is not that it was my game plan to play tentative or give the guy a shot pass.

"Unfortunately that is how it panned out today. The fight was not quite there. I definitely recognise that I was being too tentative in the first set.

"I was not obviously hitting the ball and missing shots. I got an opportunity to play a guy who is at that level. I am motivated to play well by working hard. I am looking forward to practice tomorrow morning. I am in doubles too. Looking forward to Melbourne."

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