TMS - INDIAN WELLS, WOMEN

March 9, 2001

Tathiana Garbin

MODERATOR: Questions, please.

TATHIANA GARBIN: Yeah, since last year because I did an operation. I stop for a while.

TATHIANA GARBIN: Thyroid. It was pretty bad. But then all was good. After operation, everything was good. After two weeks, I start again to practice. Was so hard to restart to play well, to play the match. It was tough this year. I start since Sydney was the first tournament after the operation. It was pretty tough to come back. But now it's good.

TATHIANA GARBIN: I had something on here (indicating her neck/throat). They didn't know what it was. Then it was something good.

TATHIANA GARBIN: Yeah. They didn't know exactly what it was, but then was like a calcification. I don't know how to say.

TATHIANA GARBIN: Kind of, yeah. When I went there, when I went to the hospital, they didn't really know what it was and was worry, no, at the beginning? When they did the operation, they saw it, they say okay.

TATHIANA GARBIN: No.

TATHIANA GARBIN: Yeah. My parents were very scary, yeah. I mean, I was okay. I say, "That's what happen."

TATHIANA GARBIN: No. It start after already one year that I had. But I was playing well. I say, "No, I have to play because this year it's important." I really play good last year. But then I was so tired, I couldn't play anymore.

TATHIANA GARBIN: Yeah, it made me tired.

TATHIANA GARBIN: Yeah, I take that.

TATHIANA GARBIN: In Bologna, where I live.

TATHIANA GARBIN: In November, middle of November.

TATHIANA GARBIN: I start to practice December, beginning of December. Then I start the first tournament in Sydney.

TATHIANA GARBIN: Si, it was.

TATHIANA GARBIN: No, I like when there's a lot of people. I don't care if it's for me or for the other. I like to see people over there.

TATHIANA GARBIN: I run a lot, I think, and I change game a lot. Maybe she miss because I change game, speed, everything, and I play my best, I think.

TATHIANA GARBIN: Yeah, the first one.

TATHIANA GARBIN: I was a little because I said, "5-3 and I serve. Now you have to keep it." The top seed, they don't give a lot of chance. You have to keep all points, just try your best every point.

TATHIANA GARBIN: I say, "I have to be constant." Then I double-fault. "Okay, be concentrate." That's true.

TATHIANA GARBIN: 5-4, "It's only four points. I have to think just that. Four, three, two, one." Then I made it.

TATHIANA GARBIN: I miss one match point, no?

TATHIANA GARBIN: Then I say, "Okay, now if I win." I think the future. You have to think the present, no? I did a mistake, but it was, "What I going to do if I going to win?" I can go to the floor, but no, is okay.

TATHIANA GARBIN: No, no.

TATHIANA GARBIN: Not at all, not really. Last year maybe because I improve a lot. I become maybe 30, 36, something like this. But in Italy, they don't care about tennis. They care just football. That's what I think with Italian, maybe they change idea.

TATHIANA GARBIN: I like it a lot. I don't know, just glory inside. But I have to be there and stay here, don't fly too much.

TATHIANA GARBIN: We don't know yet.

TATHIANA GARBIN: Sciopero (laughter).

We want to change a little bit the Federation because we had some problem. But I hope to play. If things stay like this, it's very difficult. They have to change something. I think the most important thing is to talk, to improve as like player and like Federation. If we can talk with them, it's going to be good because we can say something that they didn't even know what we need, like this.