THE LIPTON CHAMPIONSHIPS

March 22, 1999

Carlos Moya

GREG SHARKO: Questions in English for Carlos.

CARLOS MOYA: Which one, singles or doubles?

CARLOS MOYA: Yeah, I think it was exciting, you know, but not too good for me. I think I played some good tennis, but he played great. If he's able to play like this every day, he will be Top 10 for sure. But I was almost, you know, lost, then I came back. I had my chances; I didn't take them. It happens in tennis, you know. He beat me today. He's been better than me. It happens.

CARLOS MOYA: No. I never thought about defending that I No. 1 here. I never felt like that. I played almost every match grandstand court 11 o'clock in the morning. It was great to be here in States for me, you know, because I didn't have pressure from the people and the press. I didn't even see any picture of mine, so I didn't feel like No. 1. I didn't have too much pressure.

CARLOS MOYA: Yeah, I think it's great. I can say I've been No. 1 for two weeks. Who knows if I'm going to be longer there. But at least I can say I've been No. 1. So I think not many players can say that.

CARLOS MOYA: I had some matchpoints. I made some stupid mistakes, as I did the whole match. But I did most of them when I had match point. I'm just trying to forget about that match, you know. It's not going to be easy because it hurts. You know, I played doubles, I won. I think it's been good for me to play this doubles match.

CARLOS MOYA: I hope he is going to be lucky. It is not easy to get to the quarters. I don't know how many Americans there are in the last eight.

CARLOS MOYA: Pete and Pete. We were not used lately to see any American in the quarters, you know. But Pete has been playing great this week. The strange thing is that there is only one Spanish in the quarters. I think we haven't been lucky. Let's see how many on clay we have in quarters.

CARLOS MOYA: I think he said that he won 11 matches. What else do you have to do to play on center? I just want to say two things: First, which ranking I have to have to play on centre court? And, second, never mind because we are in the States, so everything can happen here.