WIMBLEDON

June 27, 2000

Arvind Parmar

MODERATOR: Questions, please.

ARVIND PARMAR: Yeah. Obviously very delighted with the win. I felt a certain pressure actually going into today's match, having a two-nil win/loss ratio against him. I felt I was the favourite going in. That made it a little bit tougher for me mentally. You know, I'm glad I got the win in the end.

ARVIND PARMAR: Just one before in Australia, start of the year I played a five-setter. This is my second one.

ARVIND PARMAR: No, I lost that.

ARVIND PARMAR: Yeah, I felt very good. A little bit of a sore wrist, but that wasn't too much of a problem. Physically, as far as my body was concerned, stamina, my strength, you know, I felt a hundred percent.

ARVIND PARMAR: Yeah, definitely. I think certainly in the third set I got very flat. I felt I should have been, you know, winning that set, holding my serve easy to begin with, then playing a bit of a sloppy game to lose it, was frustrating. I felt I should be winning that set a lot more comfortably. All credit to him. He surprised me how well he started off. He was playing some great tennis. It was tough for me to get on top of him at the start. I managed to do so in the fourth and fifth.

ARVIND PARMAR: I think for me it was all at the start of the sets. I think if I get bogged down too much in the middle of the set, kind of sets the tone for the rest of the set. I think if I can be aggressive at the very start of each set like I did in the second and the fourth and the fifth, it makes my life a lot easier because otherwise I get into the same routine. I find it tough to break out of that sloppiness sometimes, what I call it. I get a bit sloppy.

ARVIND PARMAR: My own expectations, you know, I'm not the type of guy to go into a tournament and think, "I'm going to win the tournament, make the final." I always take it one match at a time. Kind of some players or some people would just look too far into the future. My philosophy is just to stay in the present and just take one day at a time, really not stress out too much about what's happened or what's going to happen. I'm just going to keep playing as well as I can play and see what happens.

ARVIND PARMAR: I play Rosset, another big name. I like playing big names. I tend to play okay against them. I'm just going to go out there and enjoy it.

ARVIND PARMAR: I personally won't feel any pressure from that. We all have bad tournaments. Greg had a bad tournament here. He'll come back. He's a class player. I mean, it's not as if he's going to drop outside of 100. He may spend a couple months outside the Top 20, but Greg just happened to have a bad tournament and it just happened to be at Wimbledon. He'll be back. I don't feel I have to make up for his loss in any way.

ARVIND PARMAR: Definitely of the that's all part of being a tennis player. That's why I play the game, to be recognized, people to notice what I've achieved. Yeah, that will be nice.

ARVIND PARMAR: No. Just get some dinner and prepare in my doubles match tomorrow.

ARVIND PARMAR: It's nice.

ARVIND PARMAR: Yeah, certainly the last three, four weeks have been pretty hectic as far as the media is concerned. It's all part of it. I enjoy it.

ARVIND PARMAR: I think it's just my confidence. I think confidence and the consistency. In the past I would have a couple of good weeks, then three bad weeks, then I'd have a couple good weeks, one bad day. Now it seems to be a lot more consistent. This certainly last six, seven, eight months have been very consistent, consistently getting better, as well, not just staying at a level. I feel a lot more confident, a lot more belief in my game. That's come about from my consistency.

ARVIND PARMAR: I felt I was hitting the ball well. It was just how it started out. Like I said, in the start of the set, my belief was there. I mean, having so many chances and being in so many of the rallies, just missing out, kind of had a couple of doubts in my mind. I knew I could make something happen, and I did. In the end, the fourth and fifth looked quite an easy score, but it was very tough.