DAVIS CUP - USA vs SWITZERLAND

February 10, 2001

Lorenzo Manta

Roger Federer

Jakob Hlasek

ROGER FEDERER: Yeah, of course. The confidence is here. And somehow, for me, I feel where the other guy is serving more on big points, I'm more confident. I don't know, it's just a different situation when you come out of a few bad tournaments. You have to -- it's like when you ski, you stay away from the goals or - how do you say - the gates, your mind falls out of the race. You can take more risk when you have more confidence.

ROGER FEDERER: Yeah, I think especially in the doubles today when it got important, I really played well. I took some chances, and every time it paid off. I really can't complain about my doubles game today. And also yesterday against Todd, when I had my chances, I pretty much took them. So, yeah, it's always great to be on a run like this. Hope it's gonna last.

CAPTAIN JAKOB HLASEK: Definitely. It's a very good position to be in, 2-1, for us. But we knew from the start it's going to be a very difficult tie and could go to the last match. I think that we keep that mental approach, and all my guys are playing great. So we gonna prepare as we prepared the last two days for tomorrow.