U.S. OPEN

September 8, 1995

Gabriela Sabatini

GABRIELA SABATINI: The last point of the match?

GABRIELA SABATINI: I think it was very simple, just what you saw. It touched my side first.

GABRIELA SABATINI: Well, I mean, against Seles, I didn't have any chance really. I didn't play bad, but she was just playing all winners and very close to the lines and, you know, not missing very much. That is the difference. Against Steffi, I could play, that is the difference.

GABRIELA SABATINI: Sure, I tried to come in when I had the possibility. She was serving very well first and second. She started to put her first serve in a little more and I just -- when it was a short ball, I tried to come in.

GABRIELA SABATINI: I don't know what happened. I mean, I just -- very disappointing because I had many opportunities, you know, in the first set, in the second set, and it is just very disappointing to miss -- I mean, she didn't play bad. She played well. But I missed, I double faulted, you know, against these players; you can't do that.

GABRIELA SABATINI: Yeah, it is disappointing more because, you know, I had pretty good chance. I mean, the whole match I had chances. The whole time, so I think I should have won this one set, and I think I could have won the match. So it is really disappointing.

GABRIELA SABATINI: Yeah, there was some wind, few moments was a little more; few moments not too bad. You know, I think it was for both, I mean, sometimes it helped me, sometimes it helped her, so it was for both.

GABRIELA SABATINI: Yeah, it is a little bit harder to play -- to toss the ball, you know, the ball is moving a lot. It was going to one side and, you know, it is better play without wind, but, you know, the conditions are for both.

GABRIELA SABATINI: I don't know. I would say with both. I mean, I think mentally the plan was very good. I thought I was playing very well and really knowing what I needed to do and I think I did it very well. It was just something else that wasn't there.

GABRIELA SABATINI: I don't know. I saw Monica the other day against Novotna. She was making a lot of errors, so I think it is going to be a very close match. It depends I guess on each one of them how they are.

GABRIELA SABATINI: Yeah, I thought I played a good match. I thought I hit the ball very well. I think everything was there, you know, the game was there. Technically, I thought I played very well.

GABRIELA SABATINI: What it is, probably she can separate things very well. When she goes to the court, she is just playing tennis there. She is not thinking about what is going on in her personal life. And, you know, that seems to be the one thing that she is doing very well, she can do very well.