TMS - THE ERICSSON OPEN

March 25, 2000

Carlos Moya

ATP: Questions for Carlos.

CARLOS MOYA: Well, it's tough, but if nothing had happened before, it will be difficult to understand for me. But after what happened last seven months, I cannot say that I have to be worried or something because last tournament I played was before US Open a hundred percent healthy. I've been six months off. It's not easy to be back and expect to win all the matches. I had a few tough first round matches, against Hewitt last week, now Pete. I not really worried about the ranking. I know if I'm healthy and a hundred percent, I can play some good tennis, I'm going to have better ranking than I have right now. I mean, is a question of time. For sure next months, I'm going to improve my ranking. Hopefully I'm going to play some good tennis.

CARLOS MOYA: I had a stress fracture.

CARLOS MOYA: No. The plan was to come here and try to win as many matches as I could. Maybe at the beginning, I didn't expect to win not even one match because when you miss six months on the tour, after the difficult situation you've been in, it's really difficult thinking about winning matches and being a hundred percent healthy. That's what I want, to be a hundred percent, try to get the rhythm again of the matches, try to win a few. That's what I've done. Anyway, I'm a bit disappointed of the way I played today because I thought if I was able to keep the level I practicing lately, maybe I could have the chance to at least play better, to make a better score than I did today. At least I can say that the back is healthy and is much better than it was before.

CARLOS MOYA: He served very well. I don't know his percentage of first serve, but for sure was very good.

CARLOS MOYA: 80 percent of first serves in?

CARLOS MOYA: The way he serves, to put 80 percent first serves in, I mean, is very difficult. What I can expect is not to get broken with mine. That's what he did at the beginning. What can you expect after that? I mean, he didn't give me any rhythm. He served great. That's why I was a bit disappointed because I knew that his serve was going to be difficult to break. But at least with mine, the way I was serving lately, I thought I had the chance at least to get to a tiebreak or try to play some good points from baseline. But I didn't have the chance. Just he played well and I was not able to play my best tennis.