IBM/ATP TOUR WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP

November 14, 1995

Thomas Muster

THOMAS MUSTER: I didn't come here like that. Everybody said or talked about it. But I never said that. So it doesn't matter for me. I lost the match and two more to go and well, it is not very -- let us put it that way, it is the first match. It is diappointing. There is still some hopes there and if not, it doesn't matter either.

THOMAS MUSTER: I didn't use my chances. I had breakpoint in the third set and I was playing great until 6-4, 2-All and I was already playing the way I expected myself to play. Then I went a little bit down and that is it. I basically lost it.

THOMAS MUSTER: The difference is that certainly when you hit a good shot that you can't slide and you can't -- I mean, it is a different tactic to run. It is more depending on the serve and things like that. But as I said, I beat him on hard court, so it is just -- I have beat him so many times; now, I lost. That is all right. I have worked on my serve which worked very good. At the beginning, I was playing aggressive. Everything was going my way, so I just need the confidence that I can do it for three sets, four sets, five sets, whatever.

THOMAS MUSTER: Well, the favorite is Pete as I said anyway. Well, if you look at the groups, maybe -- I don't know. Actually, it is going to be very interesting how the group is ending with Boris and Pete and we have to look at our group, but there is so many matches to play. I would go for Pete with what I saw in the last few weeks, but so many things can happen in a tournament like this.

THOMAS MUSTER: It is the same. I think it is very nice to play. I think the court is nice to play. The balls are fair. There are no complaints there, I think. It is great.

THOMAS MUSTER: I make myself where I am not the favorite. Pete is the best indoor player together with Boris. And I won indoor tournaments; that doesn't make me the favorite here. But still, as I said, there are a lot more matches to play and I just lost one, so we will see how the group turns out.

THOMAS MUSTER: That was pretty difficult because I went down a little bit in the second set and when I got broken, I was a little bit down mentally and so I could have won my serve and then tried to, you know, tried to go for it, but so I mean, I started off the third set alright and I had my chances in the third set and I didn't break him, so he took his chance and I think it was a good match, I mean, from both sides. I think we were hitting the balls hard; taking the balls early, and serving all right. I mean, it is just, as I said, he had the -- I don't know, he is more pressure at the end and he didn't miss the big shots.

THOMAS MUSTER: I don't know. I don't have any -- he looks fast, but I think Pete is pretty quick too.

THOMAS MUSTER: Yeah, people always say I fake injuries, but he is always injured. People always say I am injured at the end, but every time he plays a close match, he is injured. But maybe it is just to put the pressure on others. That is what people always complain about me, so I just-- I just play the ball to him now. You have to ask him if he was injured. I don't know. I just saw that he was cramping but he was pretty fast for cramping. That is all right. But people should not always complain about me when I don't feel well and I still win matches. You better ask him those questions.

THOMAS MUSTER: It doesn't bother me. Him playing against Lendl; playing against Skoff in Davis Cup; playing against me today, I mean, there are plenty of examples when he did it and winning and running pretty good. Ask him how he plays with cramps. Maybe he plays better with cramps.