U.S. OPEN

September 2, 1993

Thomas Enqvist

THOMAS ENQVIST: I was a little bit tired. I mean, my legs were shaking a little bit. But I was okay.

THOMAS ENQVIST: It was-- I have been playing a lot of matches last week. I played Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, almost three hours everyday and it has been very hot weather. I haven't been eating and drinking--

RICHARD FINN: Could you tell us what happened yesterday. When did you get sick, was it on the court?

THOMAS ENQVIST: It was not on the court. When I was practicing I was feeling -- of course sore, my muscles. They always do that after five sets. I was feeling good. Then I took a massage and I just started get a little bit headache and I went down, told I don't recollect, my coach that I am not feeling well. He told me I should eat something and I should-- I was feeling very, very dizzy Saturday. Of course you get a little bit afraid of-- didn't know what it was. So I just lied down on the floor. Then I was laying in the first aid room for four hours and I got some food to drink; to rest a little bit. No big deal.

THOMAS ENQVIST: No, they just checked my heart at the hospital yesterday night, just because they wanted to be on the safe side. But it was nothing.

THOMAS ENQVIST: I don't know. It is hard to explain because I mean you practicing all year very hard; you think every tournament you go to you think that now I am going to play good because now I have been practicing and I feel good; play good in practice; then you lose first rounds; then you lose next week first rounds. You get bad confidence after a while when you play matches. I mean, it is so hard to explain why you play bad or good because you try to play good every time.

THOMAS ENQVIST: It is different to go from juniors, but in the beginning it is -- every time you are travelling you think it is fun. After ten years you are pretty board to sit at the airport. Now it is fun.

THOMAS ENQVIST: They work at -- my father is an engineer. My mother works with computers.