We went after Adam a little too fast and little too soon: Paes

Leander Paes was today gracious enough to concede that Czech player Adam Pavlasek played "phenomenal" tennis and the tactics to go after the youngster backfired on him and Rohan Bopanna in the Davis Cup doubles game here.
It was one rubber in which India entered as favourites but the fancied team were tamed by the Czechs 5-7 2-6 2-6 in two hours and 10 minutes and Paes said they paid the price of underestimating Pavlasek.
"We were definitely the favourites to win this match. But I thought Adam played unbelievable today. Right through the match, Adam did well to win the points. There were three great players and one youngster on the court today and that youngster actually shone," Paes said at the post-match press conference.

"Radek played well, very smartly but Adam really stepped up and played excellent today. It has been a hard day for us. We have lost to a team we should not have. A youngster who actually came out and played phenomenal tennis today," he said.
Asked if the Indian team had expected Adam to partner Stepanek in doubles today, Paes said: "There was a discussion in the Czech team about playing Lukas Rosol today, big discussion before the match.
"We were not quite sure who was going to come up today but when we saw Adam warm up, we were so fired up to go after him that maybe we went after him a little too fast and a little too soon. And he got his rhythm too quick," he said.

"We came out with a strategy to obviously break him (Pavlasek) down and we almost did that. He was fragile in the first set, especially when serving for the first set at 5-4 and we managed to break him," said the 42-year-old who recently won the US Open mixed doubles title with Martina Hingis.