TMS - THE ERICSSON OPEN

March 27, 2000

Monica Seles

Q. How do you feel after three matches in this tournament?

MONICA SELES: I feel really good. I mean, tonight was a really tough test mentally and physically out there and I played really well. It was a seesaw match. I feel fine. I am looking forward to my next opponent, Amy, I think, tomorrow, day after tomorrow.

MONICA SELES: I think my serve got down and I kept breaking her, but I lost, I think three service games in a row. That is what has been happening a lot in Indian Wells when I played lot of players. Against a few players like Martina and Lindsay you are not going to get away with it. Anna didn't allow me to get away with it in the second set too.

MONICA SELES: Yeah, depended. She just came out with unbelievable winners that I am not used to seeing from her. It was a very seesaw match. I made also some really stupid errors, I felt, to let her back into the match in the second set when it should have been a different match. But it was a tough match to play mentally too because we came out really late. It was a very hyped up match and everything so it was one of those matches that you just try to do the best that you can that day.

MONICA SELES: Well, I think tried to regroup and I knew -- I am returning well, but I just got to put in my serve somehow. Thank God I did put it in at key times. It was a lot of 30-All games. I just said to myself: Just do the best that you can and do put so much pressure on yourself regarding your serve. It worked.

MONICA SELES: I have absolutely no idea tonight.

MONICA SELES: I think everything time will only tell.

MONICA SELES: I am moving well. My foot is still not where it should be. But I still just -- it is not where it should be, I am just waiting for it to be where it is.

MONICA SELES: At this point I have some pain but it is a different type of pain on my foot that I have. I have another problem on it that happened a few days ago, but the trainers have been taping it really well and I have been giving them a headache with it because they probably retaped me about four, five times, but it has been working and right now I am very happy with it.

MONICA SELES: Yes, I saw Steffi couple nights ago. I talked to her and everything.

MONICA SELES: It is very hard for that meeting to tell. She does seem to be very happy and it is great to see that.

MONICA SELES: No, not at all. You just try to win every point that is in front of you. If you don't, then just look forward to the next point.

MONICA SELES: Please don't ask me those questions. It is 11:30. I just had a long day, please, next time. That is fine, but -- it is another hour of me waiting for treatment.

MONICA SELES: I don't think really both. It is just that there are a few players right now are better than she is and she is a very hard worker. I think that is going to change. Same way changed for Martina and Lindsay. And if she improves a few things which I think she will, because I think she wants to and she is a very big fighter. I think for Anna physically that is not a problem. I think she is one of the best movers out there. There are a few things in her game. I think she knows very well what they are, like I know what they are in my game. Lindsay knows in her game. If you are a professional, you know that it's just a question can each one improve it. Lindsay improved it. Martina did. That is where they are. It is going to be up to Anna, myself, and 10 other players if we will or if we wouldn't.

MONICA SELES: I wouldn't say that is her problem myself. But I rather keep that to myself what I think she needs to improve.