US OPEN

August 28, 2003

Wayne Ferreira

THE MODERATOR: Questions for Wayne.

WAYNE FERREIRA: I've never played him before, so I haven't really seen him play. He played pretty well. Good player, yeah.

WAYNE FERREIRA: I was far away from being defaulted.

WAYNE FERREIRA: That's far away. That's far enough away. I wouldn't have been defaulted.

WAYNE FERREIRA: No, I was more frustrated -- I was frustrated in that. I was frustrated in my tennis. I was not very happy with the way I was playing. I was pretty frustrated. I wanted more. I wanted to play better. I wanted to do better.

WAYNE FERREIRA: I didn't feel like I played that well. I didn't really feel like I played the tennis I wanted to play. I was disappointed in my -- not in my effort, I tried the best I could do, I just didn't feel like I played that well.

WAYNE FERREIRA: He moved well. He hit the ball pretty well. At the beginning I didn't serve so good. I think that was a huge factor, my serve wasn't good enough. He returned very well in the second serve, made a lot of returns back. Always seemed to be struggling on my serve quite a lot. I didn't really have any free games. I think the return game from his side was pretty good. Then again, you know, I didn't really serve that well. So I think if I'd served better, it might have been a little easier on my serve games, and I could have had more time to concentrate on his serve games.

WAYNE FERREIRA: No, probably not. I did have a chance. The French kind of ruined the rest of the year for me. It's disappointing. You know, I'm obviously very frustrated about it. But that's life, you know. You have your ups and your downs. I'm still going to try to compete as hard as I can, and try to finish with my ranking as high as I can. But I don't think that's a possibility anymore.

WAYNE FERREIRA: Not really, no. I'm actually sore right now. Actually, I was hurting beginning of the fourth set, I started hurting again. No, I'm not a hundred percent.

WAYNE FERREIRA: Well, there's a possibility I might play Davis Cup. After that, I have scheduled to play Lyon, Madrid, Stockholm and Paris. Those are my last four for the rest of the year.