CHASE CHAMPIONSHIPS OF THE COREL WTA TOUR

November 18, 1996

Martina Hingis

MARTINA HINGIS: I liked how I played today. If you win 6-1, 6-2, there's not so many things to improve anymore. So it was the first time to be on the court here at Madison Square Garden, and it wasn't a bad experience.

MARTINA HINGIS: Well, yes, somehow it's surprising how I play tennis right now. So I feel very comfortable in my -- my serve improved. It was the first time I served 103 miles per hour, so I was pretty happy about that. I almost didn't make mistakes today. And it was just also the winning against Monica in Oakland was a big win for me. If you beat the No. 1 player in the world 6-2, 6-love. But I think the biggest win was the Filderstadt, I think was more mental, was a very big experience for me there, and much more confidence.

MARTINA HINGIS: I was not very happy about I had to play third match already. It was like sometimes you don't know how long the matches are going to take. And the first match was very good, like Majoli/Huber is not a bad match to see. And Lindsay Davenport, it took a long time, too. And it was great for Gabriela, for the players, it was just very nice retiring, like the whole ceremony, it was very nice. But somehow, yeah, you think about the match already a little bit. But it was just nice for her, I think.

MARTINA HINGIS: Yeah, I've been here just to pick up an award. But it was like the first time I saw the tennis court and see a couple of matches. But it was one of my biggest goals this year was to reach to play here.

MARTINA HINGIS: Yeah, I'm just starting, it's only my third year, and they retire, they're almost ten years older than I am. I hope no. I don't know. You never know what's going to happening in the future.

MARTINA HINGIS: I played like at 1 o'clock for an hour with Anke and this is a huge arena to play. I've been at the Knicks game Saturday, so I saw it already. It was very crowded. Yeah, it's just a big difference to play, you have so much space everywhere. It's a big difference. But, yes, Open or something is not much smaller.

MARTINA HINGIS: It's hard to say. I played Monica last week in the finals and it was a big win for me there. And Kimiko I've never played, it will be exciting to play Kimiko, but we'll see what's going to happen.

MARTINA HINGIS: Well, a lot, actually. I had to play -- I had to do a lot of press things with Omega, my sponsor. I had to do autograph session and things like that. And we arrived Thursday, so there are not that many days to do something.

MARTINA HINGIS: No. I've been to Las Vegas last week, like for two days and I've seen so many things there, and it was a crazy city. No I relaxed before the matches, before the tournament starts.