THE LIPTON CHAMPIONSHIPS

March 26, 1996

Stefan Edberg

STEFAN EDBERG: It hasn't changed overnight.

STEFAN EDBERG: I'm set to do other things in life, so it's pretty much set. I won't change my mind.

STEFAN EDBERG: I will do a few things here and there, nothing that I can sort of announce today. I'm going to do a few different things to start off with.

STEFAN EDBERG: Yeah, a little bit. I hope to. I think it would be nice to.

STEFAN EDBERG: Yes, I knew that before, and I shouldn't have lost today either. I have to say that. I don't know. I mean, I played pretty well actually for a set and a half. I let it slip out of my hands. He started playing a lot better. I just lost the momentum. It was definitely a match that I shouldn't have lost. I feel pretty disappointed. I was hitting the ball well, I was moving well. Then I played a lousy game at 2-1, lost my serve, lost my rhythm of my serve, didn't really serve very well at all the rest of the match. I had 15-40 at 3-2 in the second. I had so many chances. I never got a hold of him. It's quite disappointing. But he did play very well at the end. I have to say that. I think I let him play well, too.

STEFAN EDBERG: This is one of the reasons. This is a typical match that should have been won. Should have been dead and buried. I didn't. These matches that you don't -- it's tough. I was hitting the ball well. I had a great chance of getting into the quarterfinal here.

STEFAN EDBERG: I think it started last years. Since last year there's been quite a few, I would say.

STEFAN EDBERG: You have to take the chances and you really have to stamp your authority, concentrate. I'm playing a few sloppy points. I served a couple double-faults to give him the break in the second set. You can't do that. The guys are good out there today, so -- you can get away by giving away a point here and there, but not in that way.

STEFAN EDBERG: Yeah. It's a little bit of concentration. It's hard to say exactly what it is. It's usually concentration. That's what it was. Up after 2-Love, I won seven, eight straight points. There was no reason to play a bad service game, for pressure or anything. He made a few returns, I made a few mistakes, hit the two double-faults, then he felt he had a chance again.

STEFAN EDBERG: Well, I was motivated to play today. Hasn't been a problem this week here. I find when you're out there playing, that hasn't been the problem at all.

STEFAN EDBERG: In order to get the total concentration, you need to win matches, need to be out there week after week after week. That's really how you build up something like that. It only has to slip for a minute or two. With match toughness, that's another thing, that's how you build that up. Maybe you start to think a little bit, and that's usually how it happens. You get a little bit unsure about yourself.

STEFAN EDBERG: Losing matches like this. I don't want to say the word, but I don't like it. I don't like it. It's tough. That's the way it is.

STEFAN EDBERG: It might have been, yeah. Nobody's going to know. You can only predict maybe it would have been, maybe not. I'll leave that up to you.

STEFAN EDBERG: He's working with Pete now. He's pretty happy what he's doing.

STEFAN EDBERG: Monte Carlo is my next tournament. That's what I think I'll start playing next. I have a few weeks off.

STEFAN EDBERG: At this point I've still got the doubles, so I'm going to try to see what I can do there. I want to stick around here for as long as I can. The weather is great. I've got my family here. It's cold getting back to Europe. You tend to look around. I've been here so many times.

STEFAN EDBERG: Yeah, definitely.

STEFAN EDBERG: That could have been a good move, but it's a little bit too late now. It could have been a good move.

STEFAN EDBERG: I thought about it, but I thought maybe I could do things myself.

STEFAN EDBERG: Yeah. I think every match is tough here, there's no question about that. I knew I had a good chance winning today against Boetsch with the previous history. At the same time I was still taking one match at a time here. I've been hitting the ball sort of better and better for each match. At one stage I was hitting it really well, the best I've hit it all year. Suddenly you lose a little bit again.

STEFAN EDBERG: I have a ganglion, it's like a cyst in your wrist.

STEFAN EDBERG: It's been pretty good because I've been on anti-inflammatories. Without them, it makes it a lot harder.

STEFAN EDBERG: Thank you.