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March 31, 2004

Guillermo Coria

GUILLERMO CORIA: Yes, it's like playing at home here and I'm very happy that the people are coming out to support me. I hope that I can make them happy by winning on Sunday, hopefully.

GUILLERMO CORIA: I start playing today completely different than when I start playing against Benneteau. I took advantage of the opportunities I had to break his serve. In 4-love in the second set, I had the opportunity to continue to play my game, but I dropped my level and he kind of got back a little bit in the match. But at 5-3, I'm happy that I was able to close out the match. Even though (I/he) might not have played at his best level, I'm very happy with this win.

GUILLERMO CORIA: First, I could see the light at the end of the tunnel. I could see I was close to the end. But also, he changed a little bit. He started hitting the ball a little harder. I made two unforced errors that were important in the game, and he took advantage of it.

GUILLERMO CORIA: It would be very nice to repeat the final from Hamburg last year, but there is still a lot of matches to be played, a lot of hard matches. But it would be nice.

GUILLERMO CORIA: I believe that everybody kind of mirrors Agassi because he's an example on and off the court. But in reality, it's impossible to play exactly like him so... But he's an example for me.

GUILLERMO CORIA: Yes.

GUILLERMO CORIA: Oh...

GUILLERMO CORIA: I'm happy that he is back playing. I would have liked if the same thing happened to me, but that's it for me now. I don't think it does any good to anybody to talk about this case anymore. I could agree or disagree with the decision, but I don't think that we should be talking about this right now when I reach my first semifinal here in a Masters Series. I really don't want to talk about this anymore.