RCA CHAMPIONSHIPS

August 14, 1995

Kent Kinnear

KENT KINNEAR: Well, I had a bad -- I didn't start out too well which kind of hurt me. I felt like I was missing a lot an awful lot of returns and an awful lot of volleys. Only thing that maybe was working fairly well for me was my first serve; even that wasn't too great. So when that stuff happens to you, it is going to be a tough set. And the first set was definitely pretty tough. I felt like the second set I got in there a little bit better; threatened him a few times on his serve, but I still missed too many. I felt like I missed too many second serve returns and altogether I think I made a few too many unforced errors. At the same time, he is a tough player. His style of play, I think, maybe is a little tough for me to play against because he does return so well, and he takes pressure real well, as far as me coming in a lot stuff like that because he has such good passing shots, so all that stuff combined made it a little bit rough for me today.

KENT KINNEAR: If I had been out there much longer, it might have been. I wasn't out there too long, so -- but it was pretty hot. It was pretty hot, but the points weren't too long, so I think if the points would have been longer, the match would have been longer; probably would have been a factor.

KENT KINNEAR: Yeah.

KENT KINNEAR: Well, I think we have both been playing pretty good doubles lately. We haven't been able to play a whole lot together, though. We played a little bit together at the beginning of the year, and didn't have any real great results, but overall, last year we had a good year together, so I am anxious to play with him again and since we both have recently been doing pretty well with other partners, I am looking forward to playing with him and hopefully we will have a good week.

KENT KINNEAR: Yeah, recently over the summer, I was playing with just about a different guy every week; kind of got into that rut a couple of years ago too, and that is kind of a tough way to go, but fortunately the Canadian Open, I played with Paul Kilderry. We got to the third round last week with Brent Haygarth; worked out real well; had a couple of wins. It is a tough way to go sometimes. It worked out all right in spots, but it is something that I don't want to do much longer. Hopefully I will get with the regular partner, and I think David and I will probably play a little bit this fall, but we will see what happens as far as the regular partner week-in and week-out, hoping I will work into that.

KENT KINNEAR: Paul Kilderry. It was the quarterfinals in the Canadian Open.

KENT KINNEAR: Haygarth, yeah, it was one of those strange things. We hooked up a couple of hours before sign-in and we just -- I don't know, we started playing real well together. It was strange; really clicked. We had some really good wins over there. It was a lot of fun, so we will probably -- the first couple of tournaments right after the Open, I think maybe Brent and I are going to hook up.

KENT KINNEAR: I got into Dubai and won a round against Volkov. I lost to Ferreira. I qualified in L.A. last week and lost to Rostagno. I guess this is the third.

KENT KINNEAR: Sure, I mean, last year I did pretty well in both. I loved it that way. The way the scheduling worked out, I never had to play more than one match a day which is nice, so, yeah, I would have definitely liked to have stayed in singles. It helps your doubles. They both kind of help each other, I think, so it certainly wouldn't have hurt my doubles to win a few singles matches here.

KENT KINNEAR: Yep.