STATE FARM EVERT CUP

March 10, 1998

Dominique Van Roost

Q. The obvious question is, you had her on the run, you came back from 4-Love, and what happened?

DOMINIQUE VAN ROOST: I think that I made a couple of unforced error at 4. I played very good from 4-Love to 4. It's hard to continue playing that way because I was running a lot today, and I was giving a lot of my energy. At 4, I couldn't play the game I played until 4. Of course, if you run so much one time, then one moment you will not play the best game. I think that's what happened at 4. Then I get very tired in the second set.

DOMINIQUE VAN ROOST: No. I played her sister. I didn't play her. It was the first time. She's very powerful, of course. She has a very good serve. The ball is very heavy. She's playing very fast, so she's a very talented player. She's taking the ball very early also. Today, she couldn't let me play my game. Because I'm also a player who takes a lot of risk. I try to do the winner before the other one. Today, she couldn't let me play my game. She was also playing very fast. She was making a lot of winners from my serve and from the baseline.

DOMINIQUE VAN ROOST: It's hard to compare. They don't have the same game, so you cannot compare each other. But from my point of view, she's a very strong player so she will get very soon to the Top 10, probably to the Top 5. But for the rest, I don't know, because you have to be very good the whole year. You cannot make any mistake if you want to be No. 1 or in the Top 5. But she has the potential to become one of the best players in the world.

DOMINIQUE VAN ROOST: I don't talk to her. I mean, I don't know her. We never talk together.

DOMINIQUE VAN ROOST: Yeah, exactly. I mean, I don't know why I should talk with her or why she should talk with me. I mean, I know -- because she's very young also. I am 24. We are not from the same age. I don't know her. She's a newcomer on the Tour since two years now. Maybe I will have a chance to talk to her. I talked with her sister when I played with her in Zurich last year. She seems very nice person, but you never going to have the chance until now to talk to her.

DOMINIQUE VAN ROOST: Yes. At least I beat one of them (laughter).

DOMINIQUE VAN ROOST: Yeah. I didn't lose a lot of matches since now. So I think I'm starting to get a little bit tired of all the matches that I played since now. I played all these indoor tournaments. I played three in a row. I played two final. It's a lot of match that I have now. Mentally and physically I start to be not as good as I was one month ago. But my game is good. I think, until 4 I played very well, then after I couldn't play the same game because I was getting too tired.

DOMINIQUE VAN ROOST: Lipton, and then I have a break. I'm going to take a couple of days now to rest for a bit and doing some condition, running, all this stuff, then get ready for Lipton. Then I have a bigger break because I'm not going to play before May. My first tournament will be Rome. I will have one month to prepare for a tournament on clay.