U.S. OPEN

September 9, 1993

Helena Sukova

Todd Woodbridge

TODD WOODBRIDGE: It feels pretty good. It is always good to win a Grand Slam title even in mixed. I think very special and you only have so many chances to win them, they are good to take.

HELENA SUKOVA: I am very happy that we have done that because we both didn't get on the court for the first round at Wimbledon. It is a little bit tough time after the singles so I am very happy he got here.

TODD WOODBRIDGE: After my singles, I was on a drip as you saw, Craig, and Helena came in, saw me, I had the needle and thing; she said whatever you want to do. So we are pretty lucky.

RICHARD FINN: Helena, can you talk about, you know, the fact that you have a chance at winning all three now that you have won one, has that even entered your mind here?

HELENA SUKOVA: No, I am taking one them match at a time. I think we are very happy that we won this. I start thinking about the next matches.

HELENA SUKOVA: How much dough?

HELENA SUKOVA: Would you care, if you knew? I don't know. Sorry, I don't know.

HELENA SUKOVA: I happy to be in that position. I am not thinking about if I am surprised or not. I am very, very happy.

TODD: I am happy, too.

TODD WOODBRIDGE: I think it is very good. You know, we have had a little difficult time in Australia; perhaps trying to get the public to realize the Australian good results over the past year. Australians have had a fantastic year. This has really topped it off with Wally being in the semis and in the Majors. Still has a chance to go even further. This year, I think, Australians have collected about 4 Grand Slam titles; maybe the most they have done for a while, so I hope that that the public in Australia get to hear about all this.

TODD WOODBRIDGE: I will watch it from Australia. I am going home tomorrow, but we are very supportive and I think everybody's goal-- they want to do their very best individually, but everyone is happy to boost each other along and we have a very proud history of tennis in Australia and I think we would like to keep that going and we feel proud to get good results and it is important to us to keep that honor.

TODD WOODBRIDGE: Yeah, it is very difficult to play each other when you are good friends. But you don't play each other very often. Out of a year you may play five or six of the guys that are constantly on the tour. You may only play 3 of them once a year. If you help each other, there is a lot more other people to beat than yourselves.

HELENA SUKOVA: Us.

TODD WOODBRIDGE: First time.

HELENA SUKOVA: It was a little bit luck that -- Todd normally plays with Arantxa and Arantxa decided not to play the mixed over here, so Todd was deciding to play or not to play the mixed and then--

TODD WOODBRIDGE: Helena was available.

TODD WOODBRIDGE: I had a friend of mine go and ask.

HELENA SUKOVA: I don't know because we haven't gotten that far about talking about it, so -- we don't know yet.

HELENA SUKOVA: I think he is a great doubles player and I am not so bad myself. So I think that what makes a good team that when the players have feeling for the doubles and they can easily get together and even for the first time and play together well.

HELENA SUKOVA: I tell you tomorrow. It is nothing knew to me. I mean, I have been playing singles, doubles, mixed doubles at the tournaments, so it is no different than any other tournament.

HELENA SUKOVA: Just play better and win the last point.

RICHARD FINN: You mentioned to Craig, you were sick; you had to retire from your first round singles match.

TODD WOODBRIDGE: I didn't retire, I had over cramps, and they put me on a drip to get fluid into my body and half hour after the drip we went out and played, so I played a very small part in that day's match. So that was an interesting sort of fact that I wasn't feeling too good and I was pretty close to not playing and pulling out.

HELENA SUKOVA: After I came into the room and I saw today I didn't know if it was me seeing him or him lying down on that bench there.