KB FED CUP, FINAL ROUND

October 4, 1997

Brenda Schultz-McCarthy

Q. So what is your opinion about the match, Brenda, the way you played and the way Sandrine played?

BRENDA SCHULTZ-McCARTHY: Well, I think in the first set it was kind of hard. I had to get used to, I think, a lot of things. It is always hard. I have never been the best player in my own country. But, you know, I think after -- I felt comfortable, I think, after I broke her in the second set. And, even I saw she also had some problems with nerves and stuff because the first set was 5-3 and then we had a couple of rallies and she wasn't hitting her forehand like the best that she can, I think. And, I broke back 5-4 and she actually played a very good return game. It was too bad for me because I finally got into the match. And, then I think I played a very good game from pretty much the whole second set; though I -- still I got the chance to -- at 30-Love in the third set I had a game at 1-All and 30-Love and I played a very good approach at 30-Love too. And, she came up with some good passing shots. And that was tough for me and then I think I was thinking a little bit too long about that game; that I should have won that game, I thought. And, I lost my own service game. And those things are just very important in matches because it is such a fast court that, you know, every chance you have, you have to get. It is kind of like grass, when you get a little break chance, you have got to take it. And, I think in the second set she had some chances by me to break my serve and she didn't. I got one chance and I broke, I think, in the third set it was the other way around - had some chances on her serve. She got one chance and she broke me and that was tough. It was tough to fight from behind then.

BRENDA SCHULTZ-McCARTHY: No, I would have been the same. I mean, she knows that one break can be a problem on this court. I mean, I had one break in the second. She had one in the third and "Gone" is the match. So, yeah, you are fired up when you break, so I was not surprised by her attitude.

BRENDA SCHULTZ-McCARTHY: Yeah, she played solid tennis after that. It is always hard when somebody breaks you. You are a little frustrated because you know that you had a chance the game before that. And, then, you know, she breaks you and then suddenly you got to focus again that you got -- you got to take every chance you get. And, normally, I break once in a set; then I just hold my own serve. But, I am not the type of person that breaks a lot. So, I normally hold serve and the chance I get, I break her. And, I mean, she plays very well because I played her last time in Hannover. That was in March. I lost 6-3, 6-3 and -- 6-4, 6-3 -- I don't really remember. But, I remember that it was the same type of game like she put a lot of first serves in and it is hard for me to attack on her first serve. And, then the times that I hit good approaches, she hit very good passing shots, every time she needed, actually, she came up with some good ones, so it was hard.