VOLVO MONTE-CARLO OPEN

April 19, 1994

Stefan Edberg

STEFAN EDBERG: I don't know. It is always hard when you play first match. I was happy that I won the match. It wasn't really a great match. Neither of us really played that well, so it is just nice to get the first match over with; especially with the wet weather that we have had so far, so it is good to get into the tournament.

STEFAN EDBERG: No. Unfortunately not. I played 2 matches in Nice where I played against guys I have never seen play. This is the third guy here in two weeks, I haven't seen him play before, so it is always a little bit awkward going out not knowing how the guy plays. But that is the way it goes. It is always like that on the clay court season.

STEFAN EDBERG: Yeah, but it is nice; something happened, but that didn't bother me too much. I had some fun, so it is okay.

STEFAN EDBERG: Yeah, it was. It was a bad throw. It just went down.

STEFAN EDBERG: I am not quite sure. I haven't really felt that great in the past two weeks. I have played okay in Nice; nothing special, and this week I need -- I need some more matches, I think, and I just keep working and sooner or later I find some form, but at least I got to play three matches last week, and so we just take it week-by-week here.

STEFAN EDBERG: Last week he was very good, and the conditions were good for him last week with slow balls, slow court, but he is a very, very good clay court player, and he can do some damage this clay court season if he plays the way he played in Nice; where it is very hard to get hold of him because he runs around his forehand all the time, and he hits it really well. Yeah, he plays a little bit funny with the grip he has, but he is very quick around the court which makes him very good, and when I played him here he made very, very few mistakes, so he was good last week, but see how he is this week.

STEFAN EDBERG: Well, the match in Nice - from my point of view - I didn't think I played that well. I wasn't serving very well, and actually sometimes better to attack his forehand which I did a little bit more in the second set, but he is -- if you are going to beat him, you need to really attack him because he is very hard to beat from the back of the court.

STEFAN EDBERG: Yeah, but he passes better from when he runs around his forehand than he does when he has to play normal forehand, I think, but he is confident at the moment. He should be.

STEFAN EDBERG: The way I look at it, if you get to the semifinal of a tournament, you had a good tournament. If you get to the final, even better. And if you win, that is the thing. But that is the way I look at it. If you come to the semifinal, I think you have had an okay tournament. That has always been my philosophy