TMS MONTE CARLO

April 17, 2000

Slava Dosedel

Q. Delicate subject, Greg was rather unhappy about the amount of time you spent in the bathroom.

SLAVA DOSEDEL: Yeah, as I can say, it took me 20 seconds in the bathroom and it was, I think kind of mistake of the bodyguard because I told him: Let us go downstairs for the toilet. And he said: No, no, it is too small, too crowded, too bad. So he took me to the clubhouse and probably all the way here and back seems like a long time, but for me personally it took 20 seconds.

SLAVA DOSEDEL: I think I was quite under pressure at the end of the second set, so maybe it looked like I was down, but still I mean, my condition is very good and I never felt tired during the whole match, so for sure, it was not a point. And he was playing quite well at the end of the second set. He hit some lines and put me under pressure the whole time.

SLAVA DOSEDEL: To the clubhouse. I told the bodyguards: Let's go down, but he said: No, no. It is too small, too bad and they took me here. I was just following the bodyguard. I mean, it was not on purpose for sure.

SLAVA DOSEDEL: Yeah, I mean, I didn't expect anything like that. I was completely surprised because I think the whole match we were quite fair to each other. There were no points arguing or anything so I was very surprised.

SLAVA DOSEDEL: He said something like that is a bad kind of sportsmanship, but I couldn't hear it well because of the crowd, of course.

SLAVA DOSEDEL: No, I think I liked it. Of course, winning the match is different, seeing of the things, but I was not bothered by anything. Of course the court -- was some bad bounces on the court, but it was on both sides and this is clay court, I mean, the court is not always perfect.

SLAVA DOSEDEL: Not long. Because it is my favorite surface. It took me very little time, maybe two days to get used to it. So it is quite good. Actually I was asking the umpire before the third set if we can take the roof down, but I was happy that he didn't do it because it was quite hard rain afterwards.

SLAVA DOSEDEL: Yes, time to time I have some troubles to finish the match actually. It happens to me a lot of times that I am up a break and I am serving for the match but I cannot finish the match and also I think I didn't play bad, just Greg came up and made one more step in -- on his pressure he was hitting the ball much harder and close to the lines. So that was the point.

SLAVA DOSEDEL: No, I forgot that match already, but...

SLAVA DOSEDEL: My mind was, actually, the match from last Davis Cup against Pete Sampras, I mean, we were 2-1 up after Saturday, but still it was quite far away to go, but we had the chances.

SLAVA DOSEDEL: Me, personally, no. It was the worst, actually. No, I mean, I played my game and I actually had no chance against Agassi and very little chance against Sampras. But yeah, it was very good feeling after Saturday. It was a bit disappointing on Sunday of course.