ATP TOUR WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP

November 17, 1993

Goran Ivanisevic

GORAN IVANISEVIC: At the beginning, I think I didn't have any chance. He served unbelievable, but I started pretty badly. I mean, not a lot of first serves in; couple of doublefaults. And then also second set, I didn't know where -- how to serve, because I was rushing too much. I didn't know whether to come in or stay back. Then when I won the second set; then everything was going good. And then the game 2-All, 40-15, I tried to play too defensive. I stayed back, and then I just play his backhand, and I missed a couple of easy backhands, and that was it, and he just played good last couple of games.

GORAN IVANISEVIC: Yeah, he lost the rhythm. I mean, it is tough to serve like that all the time. He was serving really good, then he lost the rhythm. He did doublefault on set point. I thought now is my chance. Then in the beginning also I should made me start a little bit to put few returns more in the third set because he started to miss a couple of -- he was doing more doublefaults, but then I was always missing, and then on my serve, I served really, really bad today. I didn't have any rhythm on my serve. He was guessing. I mean, he was guessing before I hit the serve, he was going to the right side and hit -- I was serving a lot to his backhand. After a while, he was just going to there before I hit the serve and he was hitting winners return. I didn't serve to his body. But he played good. I mean, he played better than he played before against me.

GORAN IVANISEVIC: Yeah, every time -- I want to play safe. Every time I want to play safe with my backhand, I miss, instead of hitting -- if I hit, it doesn't matter if it is going in or out. I mean, that is better, but every time I play safe I miss the backhand. I play too safe. And then I miss it. I mean, like the game when he broke me, I did maybe three, four mistakes with the backhand. I mean, no very easy.