EUTELSAT MONTE CARLO OPEN

April 28, 1996

Thomas Muster

THOMAS MUSTER: : Yeah, I feel all right. It was a very long match, which I expected. I said that yesterday. At the end I had probably the better physics and maybe more routine to win the match.

THOMAS MUSTER: Yeah, probably. As I said, I probably used my power better at the end, and when it was necessary, I put more pressure on him. He really got -- he was tired at the end, I think.

THOMAS MUSTER: Well, I mean, playing four weeks in a row, this is quite tough. Winning a Super 9, going to Munich, I try my best there, whatever happens. I don't think I have to put any pressure on myself. Munich, I have to -- I have the week of Hamburg off. I hope that I play well in Rome again. As I said, I try my best in Munich to play as good as possible.

THOMAS MUSTER: The fact is every time I play him, it was the best of five match. I mean, usually we play best of three, and every time in Kitzbuhel and Paris and here it's the best of five matches. It lasts longer than others. That's pretty normal. I mean, he's a good player. He plays good angle shots, and he is, physically, very fit. I mean, we have long rallies because he's not somebody that comes in all the time. We play every point until the end. That's why it takes so long.

THOMAS MUSTER: I've had back problems three or four weeks, because of the conditions, it's most of the time windy and cold, and I have that problem many times. I just asked him to put some hot cream on my back so I don't feel the pain. That was it.

THOMAS MUSTER: I don't know. You'll have to ask him that. I don't know.

THOMAS MUSTER: Yeah, he does. Probably he can.

THOMAS MUSTER: He's a very tough opponent, but he's very young. He has to prove many more times that he's a very good player. I mean, he beat Courier last year at the French Open; beat Agassi here badly, so he's obviously a very good claycourt player.