US OPEN

August 26, 2002

Richard Krajicek

MODERATOR: Questions.

RICHARD KRAJICEK: Not so good. I was playing pretty ugly actually. I started okay. 1-All, I had one or two breakpoints. I missed an easy forehand. Suddenly the match just walked away from me. 6-1, 3-1, he had a couple breaks to go 4-1, double break. I held on there. The match didn't really change, but at least I was back in the set a little bit. At least I was hanging in there. I had a few chances, breakpoints I think at 2-1 to go back to 2-All. After that, a little bit of a chance. Yeah, I was really struggling today. Especially at the net I felt very uncomfortable. The first set, that's the reason I got broken. I missed a lot of volleys. Wasn't a good day at the office until then. Actually got worse a little bit, completely terrible in the end. These things happen tennis-wise. Now what happened with my foot, I don't know what that is. But tennis-wise, it wasn't a good day.