U.S. OPEN

August 31, 1995

Brett Steven

BRETT STEVEN: No.

BRETT STEVEN: I peaked at 2-Love in the first. And it was all downhill after that. I have no answer for it. I am not going to overanalyze it. I just felt lousy out there today; I had no legs. I was light on everything and Patrick was hitting the ball firmly and deep, one of those days. I don't have them very often. I hope it doesn't happen often in the future, but I just felt bad out there. Had no feeling even hitting the ball, so just not a good day.

BRETT STEVEN: No. No. I don't know if it was something I ate or whatever. I just didn't feel -- had no energy out there. I had a good night sleep. I ate well this morning. Ate well for lunch; just went out on the court, and wasn't there. I don't know. I don't know what else to say. It was something -- I mean, Patrick was playing well. Anyway, I would have had to have been on my top game to have beaten him today because he was, you know, taking the ball very early. Seemed like that I was taking it later and later during every point, and he was taking it earlier and earlier. That is the way he likes to play early from the baseline, and that is not the way I like to play. I like to take it early; take it to the net, serve and volley. Today I had no -- just no general feeling in my concentration; subsequently was bad too.

BRETT STEVEN: Yeah, well, it is and isn't. It is frustrating to go out there, but as you said, I am not overanalyzing it. It just wasn't a good day. It happens. I am playing well. I had a good summer, and I think now I just need to get a little bit of -- a little bit of time off and do a bit of fitness work and go again for the next coming thing which is Davis Cup for me. It is disappointing. Reasonably good luck in the first round to have gotten through and to have even been in the second round and I guess it is disappointing not to have capitalized on that, but that happens. I have had my good luck and I have had some bad luck; not feeling great today.

BRETT STEVEN: I think it is the best one I have ever had consistently. I think the whole year has been very consistent. I haven't had a lot of matches where I could say I really didn't play that well. This is one of them, but I haven't had a lot like that. That is pretty good. Took third round Canada; third round Cincinatti; third round Indianapolis; second round here. You know, quite solid result; nothing spectacular, but pretty solid, and that is the way I play. I don't have, I guess, a spectacular game. It is a solid all-around game with nothing that good, but nothing hopefully that bad, and that is how my results generally are going to be.

BRETT STEVEN: As far as the team goes or my performance.

BRETT STEVEN: No, I wouldn't say the other two on the team have been playing that well, so it is going to be a tough, tough battle. Looks like Rosset played well today to beat Rafter in straight sets so he is getting into hard court form and Hlasek is still as well, so they have got two players who are -- who are -- probably Rosset is definitely top 20 caliber and Jakob has been there before. I guess he and I are about equal, but the difference will be their No. 1 player is a lot better than our No. 2 player, for sure. Jakob and I are similar and Rosset is a lot better, so it is going to be a tough Tie, and maybe nothing to lose or give -- like Australia last year, who knows, hopefully, we can make it 1-All after the first day and see what happens.

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