U.S. OPEN

September 5, 1993

MaliVai Washington

MaliVAI WASHINGTON: I don't know. It is just -- I don't know, it is just one of those things. I don't know what it was. Just threw in a couple of doubles. I don't know. I guess I look at a double just like it is just like missing any other shot. Just so happens that I doublefaulted. I mean, it is not good when you get up a break and just throw him a couple of points like that. I think I had doublefaulted three times, but I don't know, it happens. I don't really think it was a lack of concentration. Just threw them in at that particular time.

MaliVAI WASHINGTON: Is that so?

MaliVAI WASHINGTON: I think there were times I was returning well, but, I don't know, I don't think I really put a whole lot of pressure on his serve, I got to. I broke that one time. I think a couple of times I had, maybe a breakpoint or so, maybe at Love-30 on the serve, but I was-- never really did much to challenge him on his serve, I don't think. I think that was the big difference.

MaliVAI WASHINGTON: I feel you get a few less chances against the No. 1 guy in the world than you might against No. 20 or 30 guy, but still, I don't know, you just got to, no matter who you are playing, you got to really try to convert when you break. I just didn't -- I just wasn't getting a whole lot of first serves in. I know my percentage wasn't that high and, I mean, that was the difference. I didn't return serve and not too much on my serve.

MaliVAI WASHINGTON: I don't think so. It just happened. It was just one of those things. I think at that point I might have thrown a couple of more errors that I had thrown in the first six games, but I don't know. I don't know if there was any specific thing that made that happen.

MaliVAI WASHINGTON: Not particularly. I think he played pretty much the same throughout. I didn't feel like he was hitting the ball any harder or doing anything differently. He played -- he played a solid match throughout all three sets, I thought.

MaliVAI WASHINGTON: I don't know. I don't know what I am going to do. I am taking a couple of days off. I might hang in New York for a little while, just go out a little bit, but I don't know. I am not going to take too much time off because Davis Cup is coming up pretty soon and I want to be healthy and feeling good come Davis Cup, so I am not going to take too much time off.

MaliVAI WASHINGTON: I didn't win. You should probably ask Jim. I don't know. I don't know if they ever played before. I think Jim has pretty good form right now. So I think he will go on and do well.

MaliVAI WASHINGTON: You are right. I was definitely trying to hit it straight to him, so he could make me run and then I could move more. That was my strategy. My strategy was to run as much as I could and to give him as many forehands as possible. That was my strategy. High forehands.