ATP TOUR WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP

November 18, 1992

Richard Krajicek

RICHARD KRAJICEK: I think I was just a little bit less aggressive, especially in the second and third, and I just let him get back into the match in the first set already, I think. I was playing well. He had a few chances to break me, but I should have been 5-2 up eventually. I didn't take the chance. I won the first set but he got a little bit of his rhythm back, and I think that that is where the problems started, actually. I was a little bit negative on my returns; I should have done more. But it is -- it is after the match, of course. I am just going to go out and try to play a good match tomorrow, I hope.

RICHARD KRAJICEK: Well, I mean, I didn't hit that many doublefaults. It just happens. I mean, you know -- I don't think it was nerves, but, yeah, it is just something that happens sometimes. It is not a nice way to end the match. I had a few more matches points down. I hit good shots. I don't know. I just -- I should have made him hit a return on the match point maybe, but I hit a doublefault. It was a stupid way to end. I don't know if it was nerves. Maybe.

RICHARD KRAJICEK: Yes, it has come pretty quickly, of course. Yeah, after -- especially after Paris, I thought there was no chance and then suddenly, I have a great week last week, and then instead of going to Monte Carlo where I was supposed to go Monday, to have a few days off, I had to come here. So that was nice. But it was a lot of things happened, but I am happy to be here.

RICHARD KRAJICEK: I don't know.

RICHARD KRAJICEK: Yeah, I heard it. But if he thinks it is boring, then maybe he should get off the court and take a shower or something. I was enjoying myself; I was trying to play the match. But if he felt it was boring, that is his opinion.

RICHARD KRAJICEK: Okay. Still, it would have been better, of course, if I won today, but -- I would made it a lot easier. I still have a chance. I don't know, I play -- I don't know who I play tomorrow, but I think -- I am able to beat both of them still, on this surface even, so I don't know. I am just going to go out there and believe in my chances and give it 100% and see what happens.

RICHARD KRAJICEK: Well, I mean, it is difficult to say. He is not playing, I think, as well as he was playing the first couple of months of the year. But he was playing unbelievable. I don't know if that is a measure. A number one player, you shouldn't only look at his tennis, I think even though he is not playing his best tennis, he pulled through a very tough match today; I think that is also a sign of a number one player, a mark of a number one player.

RICHARD KRAJICEK: I mean my philosophy is when I come to a tournament I try to win it or else it is no use showing up, and what I come here to do is try to win every match I play. Today I haven't succeeded, but I hope tomorrow and the day after tomorrow I will, and that I play, hopefully, the semifinals on Saturday, but it is far away. I mean, I try to win every match. I am not going to go out, "I don't care if I win or lose - I am so happy I can participate." It is great to participate, but still, I want to win.

RICHARD KRAJICEK: It is difficult to say, of course. I mean, you don't -- you hear people say it around you. They are watching you. But from my feeling, I don't know how well you have to play to be a top 10 player, but actually after the fourth month of the year I have been pretty close all the times of the top 10. I have been 12, 13, even I played one match to go into top 10, and I lost that one, and yeah, it was of course a possibility, but then, at one stage, after Sidney, I felt my chances were pretty small to make it to the top 10 this year, but yeah, it happened and that is a nice break, of course.