TENNIS MASTERS CUP- HOUSTON

November 19, 2004

Guillermo Coria

GUILLERMO CORIA: We will tell you later in a drawing. It's kind of long - if you want. They had to cut something and put it back. I don't know the name, but they took off a tendon and then had to put it together with some other parts. There was also a bone that was hurting, so they had to cut the bone. I don't know the technical names. There was a bone, torn from 11 to 12. So they had to put it together. There was a part where the nerve was not sending information to the muscle and it got atrophied. So they went to the muscle and opened up. They had to free the tendon a little bit, and then they put together where the nerves were torn.

GUILLERMO CORIA: Yes. It's something that's genetic. They had to do it because sooner or later it was going to happen. So they had to do it.

GUILLERMO CORIA: I leave the tournament very happy. Obviously, there are some things that I have to get there, like my serve is not there, and some points, the way I play those points is not there still. But to just come here with only one week of preparation and play like this, it gives me a lot of confidence for next year to see that I'm going to be back there.

GUILLERMO CORIA: No, I'm ready. I'm ready to serve hard. There's some parts I need to work on a little bit more, because otherwise when I serve with full power, it hurts other parts. So I just have to work on that part. But in the match, I was serving as hard as I could and I was doing okay.