Play hard, fight hard, you know, run every ball down".
Even Delon Armitage, who looked ready to run every ball, good or bad, succumbed to clumping it downfield, apart from one beauty down the touchline near the end of the first half, which concluded 6-6 after Shingler kicked penalties in the 18th and 29th minutes in reply to Robinson.
Wright attempts to make it at least a run off every ball but is almost run out when he tries to steal one off the last ball when he hit it too firmly to point but he dived back into his crease a fraction of a second before De Villiers knocked the stumps down.
Not yet do I have the feeling that I am 100 percent ready to compete, to say, 'I'm going to go there, I will be ready to run for every ball, to play aggressive, to do what I want with my legs and then try to play my best tennis to win.' " But Pérez-Barbadillo said the virus, not the knee, was the decisive factor in his January withdrawals.
Long retired, he still remembers them all: "Watch the ball," "Stay down low," "Run down every ball," "Keep the ball in play" and "Have fun".
On one side of the net was the terrier-like Mr Chang, an old-school defensive player whose Herculean legs help him run down every ball.
All but two of his victories have been on clay, whose relatively slow bounce tends to blunt Federer's serve, and to favor Nadal's phenomenal ability to run down every ball and hit it back with killer topspin; on hard courts and grass, Federer has won many tournaments in which Nadal did not get to the finals.
"Against the world number one, you have to run down every ball.
"He doesn't argue with the umpires, he runs every single ball out, he makes great plays, he makes routine plays, he gets the runner in when he needs to get him in, he gets the runner over when he needs to get him over.
It may be the way he runs down every ball, stretches for every volley, hits that demoralizing extra shot.
"All I know about him is that he plays far back and runs down every ball," Sock added, indicating it could be a lengthy contest.
