OLYMPIC TENNIS TOURNAMENT

August 17, 2004

Wayne Arthurs

WAYNE ARTHURS: Obviously, he returns very well, and he actually serves very well for a midget. I mean, he's probably 5'8" or 5'9". He serves very well, very accurate. If you don't get the ball back to him at a good pace, his forehand's very dangerous. Just wasn't able to do that today. I think he played a great game in the second set. I don't think I did anything wrong on my serve. He hit three return winners. Not much I can do about that.

WAYNE ARTHURS: It does get a little frustrating, yeah, especially when there's a few big points out there that didn't go my way, a few bad line calls. I think I actually talked to Sebastien about it. He actually agreed on all the calls against me. He got a couple bad ones. But they just happened to be at big times, a breakpoint in the second set. Serve down the tee, it was an ace, called a fault. And also in the tiebreaker at 3-2. I'm not blaming that on the loss, but it doesn't help.

WAYNE ARTHURS: Yeah. Wouldn't take anything away from it. It's been unbelievable to be here. We're still in doubles. That's probably our pet event. I think Todd and I are looking a long way in this tournament, not just today and maybe further on in the tournament. Looking for one of those medals.

WAYNE ARTHURS: Yeah, definitely can medal. Our draw is pretty good. We have a tough match today against Kiefer and Schuettler. I've got a partner in Todd Woodbridge who has been at the end of a lot of big tournaments. So I'm looking forward to ending here on the weekend hopefully.

WAYNE ARTHURS: Yeah, we played some very, very big matches together and won a lot of big matches together. That holds us in good stead through this tournament. If we play at our best and at a standard we know we can play at, I think we can go a long way.