TENNIS MASTERS CUP- HOUSTON

November 16, 2004

Carlos Moya

THE MODERATOR: Questions in English, please, for Carlos.

CARLOS MOYA: Yeah, he served very well today. I didn't have any chance to break him. That was the only thing that I'm not happy about, about my return. But the rest, I'm pretty happy the way I played today. I didn't play much for a month and a half. So given the conditions, I think I played a great match. He also played very well. There were a few key points, two or three. It was a really close match, and I didn't win those points. So when you play a guy like Lleyton and you don't take your chances, you lose. But in general, I'm happy the way I played. Disappointed because I lost, it's going to be harder for me to qualify. But I think it's been a great match.

CARLOS MOYA: Well, what can I say? I don't know how is the weather here in November every year. So-so? It's like this or...?

CARLOS MOYA: Last year we also had a few problems with that. But it's not their fault, I mean, from the organizers. They put a lot of money, they made a great effort to have this tournament, and they know they made few mistakes last year and they have improved a lot. So the weather, is nothing that they can do. It's bad luck. I don't think that they are guilty about that, not at all.

CARLOS MOYA: Yeah. I don't know for how long it's been indoors.

CARLOS MOYA: Yeah, in all the Masters I been and all the Masters I know, it was played indoor. But I don't know the situation, I don't know the circumstances, and so it's better not to talk about this when I don't know what really happened.

CARLOS MOYA: Yeah, it's much better now. I had few problems during the whole season, and at the end was much worse. So I decided to rest, to recover, and also recover mentally. The last two or three years have been very tough, very tight schedule, a lot of matches, a lot of travels. You know, it was time to rest. And now I listen to my body when it gives me a warning. I decided to rest, and I practiced very hard this month and a half. I wanted to be ready for this Masters Cup and also for the Davis Cup. So now I feel that I'm playing well again, like I did the first half of the year. But I need to play a few more matches, and not only one good match, but I need to play good matches to believe in myself again and to be the same player I was at the beginning of the year.