TMS - INDIAN WELLS, WOMEN

March 9, 2001

Monica Seles

MODERATOR: Questions for Monica.

MONICA SELES: Well, I think a combination of she played really well. I mean, she didn't miss too many shots. Obviously, I wasn't playing what I usually play. I just quite couldn't pull it out. In the key points she played a lot better and I played a lot worse.

MONICA SELES: That's my first time playing her.

MONICA SELES: I seen her previous match, I mean, as usual. I knew she would be a good player. I knew she won a tournament last year. I mean, knew that coming in. But she definitely played a lot better than her last match.

MONICA SELES: Pretty much I just did not feel the ball out there at all. I hit it, I don't know if it's going to go in or out. In those situations, you're hoping the other player is going to miss. But she didn't miss, she was really solid, and I did not improve at all in the match.

MONICA SELES: Yeah, both were kind of similar stories. I mean, my game just kind of collapsed. I have to think about both a little bit. I mean, today was different than that match. But in some ways, a couple of things in my game really just let me down big time.

MONICA SELES: I'm fine, totally.

MONICA SELES: Try to work on them. I mean, I have probably ten days, almost two weeks, I guess, before the Ericsson. Just, you know, sit down and figure out what I need to do so hopefully these things don't happen too often.

MONICA SELES: I'm not down. I just lost a tennis match. I'm not down as a person. Definitely it's disappointing, more so not losing but the way that I played. You know, if I didn't care, then it would be probably time for me to move on.

MONICA SELES: I think it's just a combination of both. The last two matches, my concentration has gone away, and my groundstrokes, too, at the same time, and my returns.

MONICA SELES: No, not at all. I mean the air is a little thinner here. In the beginning, the balls are coming a little faster. It's your first match. It always happens here when you play at Indian Wells. But the lights were fine. There were no problems at all.

MONICA SELES: Right now? Well, pretty frustrated I mean because both matches are winnable matches for me. Just both were really -- both players played well, but also my level of my game was really low.

MONICA SELES: Well, no. I mean, every loss is different. When you play well and you lose to someone, but you know you played like you wanted to and you lost, it's a different story. But today I definitely -- I can't take too many positive things out of it in terms of how I played. But she also played well. She didn't make too many unforced errors. She kept me moving. But still, it's a tougher loss I think when you don't play as well as you expect yourself to play.

MONICA SELES: Yeah. It will happen more, I'm sure. But hopefully not too many times.