Like many tennis players, she prepares for competing on different surfaces hard court, clay and grass.
When he returns he will be on his favourite hard court surfaces and he understands what he needs to do.
Swiss maestro Federer pulled out of the hard court tournament to elevate Murray to second seed behind Novak Djokovic in Canada.
My coach told me before the match to play like I was on a hard court and that's what I did.
Nadal was hoping for his first victory at the hard court tournament and looking to improve his 13-5 winning record over Murray.
The Argentine did not drop his service throughout the three-set match to deny the Swiss maestro a sixth title at the hard court tournament.
An example court pace rating for each surface may be 23 for a clay court, 35 for a hard court and 46 for a grass court.
Home favorite Wozniacki had gone into the title match with a 14-0 winning streak at the hard court tournament and victories in the 2010 and 2011 editions.
We had a tough draw but we'll look positively on it and hopefully it will stand us in good stead for the hard court season to come.
Argentina will be represented by Juan Martin del Potro, David Nalbandian, Jose Acasuso and Agustin Calleri for the best-of-five series on an indoor hard court in Mar del Plata.
Meanwhile, Milos Raonic confirmed his as the king of the indoor hard court at the SAP Open , winning the San Jose event for the third year in a row.
Nadal won his first hard court title at the Montreal Masters earlier this month and hopes to improve on his two previous US Open appearances, when he lost in the second round.
But the eyes of the tennis world were on Nadal as he returned to the more unforgiving hard court surface for the first time in 346 days with a second round match against Ryan Harrison of the United States Saturday.
"It's not easy to face a player such as Safin on hard-court, " said Gasquet.
The maths of the clay surface are distinctly different to grass or hard-court surfaces.
Meanwhile, Jurgen Melzer denied Milos Raonic a second successive title by winning the Memphis hard-court event on Sunday.
There's still some hard-court season left, and Nadal has been grousing about it, feeling the surface agitates his worn knees.
Jurgen Melzer reached the final of the Memphis hard-court event on Saturday, beating Czech third seed Radek Stepanek 6-4 3-6 6-3.
The clay approach was slightly different in women's tennis, however, as some players tended to approach clay matches similar to hard-court games, he said.
Murray opted out of the tie against Lithuania in March, which Britain lost, to prepare for the American hard-court swing on the main ATP tour.
Except his knee still hurts, and there's a chance he'll decide to skip one or both of the upcoming hard-court events in Indian Wells, Calif.
It helps that the tennis season plays into his hands now as the tour moves on to the hard-court season, which is his best surface.
He decided the skip the hard-court event and go straight to his favored clay surface, on which he will also play in a Brazilian tournament after Chile.
The ecstatic French, without the services of their injured number one Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, enjoyed a lap of honour on the indoor hard-court of the Palais des Sports.
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If he retains his title, extending his record to seven overall in the indoor hard-court event, he will match third-placed John McEnroe on the ATP's career title list with 77.
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"I'm very happy as I arrive here feeling better than I expected I would a few weeks ago, " the 23-year-old said, who came through two warm-up events recently for the hard-court tournament without any further reaction.
After the the Davis Cup, both players then turn their attentions to the hard-court season in the United States, but Skupski says they can look back at their performances on grass with a sense of pride.
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