NASDAQ-100 OPEN

March 21, 2003

Robby Ginepri

THE MODERATOR: Questions, please.

ROBBY GINEPRI: I think it's pretty high up there for me. I didn't play nearly as well as I played against Safin, so it kind of meant more to me because I had to find another way to win rather than Safin was just missing. But I had to actually earn it today against Alex tonight.

ROBBY GINEPRI: The first set was tough for me. I wasn't finding my range with the depth and I was missing a little more than I planned to. It was really hot out there. We were both sweating a lot. It was hard to hold on to the racquet. But I just hung in there and good things happened.

ROBBY GINEPRI: Just last year I remember losing the close points. This year and even a little of the end of last year, I was kind of winning the big points. Matches come down to a point here, a point there. Before, I would just go for it or make a stupid error or mistake. But now I'm just kind of staying in the rally and just waiting for the good time to go for the shot.

ROBBY GINEPRI: I just had a lot of confidence after winning the tiebreak. I felt -- I was feeling really good out there. I was warm. My body was really loose. I was just going after the serve.

ROBBY GINEPRI: Yeah, James. We've played a couple times. He got the best of me both times. I know he's playing well and he's been doing well all year and last year. I'm looking forward to it because he's a great guy on and off the court. Should be a lot of fun.

ROBBY GINEPRI: I don't think he'll move to Georgia, but I'll move to Florida. It won't be based on this match, I'll tell you that.

ROBBY GINEPRI: I kind of went for the second serve a little more because I wasn't double-faulting any throughout the match - maybe one time. But I was just going for the first serve. If it didn't go, I was relying on the second serve. He really wasn't attacking it too much so it kind of made me, you know, go after a little more.

ROBBY GINEPRI: I think it would help out maybe, but you never know until you go down there, so it's kind of hard to decide. I'm going to move sooner or later. Florida maybe, California, I don't know.

ROBBY GINEPRI: It doesn't really matter too much. I try not to get caught up in that and just focus on the tennis.

ROBBY GINEPRI: Possibility. It would be nice to not be east coast, west coast with him.

ROBBY GINEPRI: It's a long flight back and forth. But when we're together, it's great.

ROBBY GINEPRI: Well, I don't go out there too much to train because I don't get too much time to train because there's been a lot of tournaments already this year. But when I go out there, we probably only have two, three days, then we'd go to the next tournament.

ROBBY GINEPRI: Not too much. I can sleep well, so I just pass out on the flight.

ROBBY GINEPRI: Yeah, I look at it in a positive way, only in a positive way. Without Mardy and James, Robert Kendrick, Taylor, everybody, Andy, I wouldn't be the same out here. I'd probably be lonely and in bad moods all the time. With these guys around, we're always laughing, giggling, it's good times with all of us. I think everybody enjoys it, the company and, you know, it's a good thing for me.

ROBBY GINEPRI: Today, I hit with my coach, so I might do that again.