PILOT PEN INTERNATIONAL

August 15, 1996

Wayne Ferreira

WAYNE FERREIRA: Pretty good day for me. I played exceptionally well. Andrei, a tough guy to play, if you don't play the right way. I played perfect. I tried to come in on all the second serves and tried to make him go for too much, a couple doubles. Be good on my serve, serve and volley, be aggressive. I played really solid tennis.

WAYNE FERREIRA: A lot easier. I think I lifted ball off the ground a lot better today. Obviously it was a little bit more different. Michael hit the ball a lot harder and lot flatter, much harder to do something off. I played a lot better off of my ground strokes. And serve I think was about the same, still good, volleys were good. I think the whole difference was the player I was playing against and the ground strokes.

WAYNE FERREIRA: He's a difficult player. He's got a very, very big serve. The thing that's good in my game is that I return well. Against him it's very important to serve and be positive on your serves and try and win them because he serves so well, you only get very -- you know, one or two chances in the match to break him. If you lose your serve, you know, you're in trouble. It's important to really concentrate on my serve and then hope or just wait for that one or two chance that I can get and then use it.

WAYNE FERREIRA: Good for me. Now I played two ground strokers, now I'm playing a big serve and volleyer. If I can get through that, probably another serve and volleyer. It's good for my preparation to get to play every type of tennis game that there is. It definitely will be an advantage.

WAYNE FERREIRA: I think I return a little bit too well for him. He's got a good serve, but if you do make him play a lot of volleys, he doesn't volley as well behind his serve, you know, if you make him play a lot. I think it's something that I've always done well against him, break him once or twice, then play well enough on my serves just to hold out through the match. I actually played him last week and it was a very, very close match. I won in three sets. It was very difficult.

WAYNE FERREIRA: It's been pretty difficult really. I only arrived here on Sunday. I only had really one day off, then the other day it rained. I did go to the mall, but besides that I've been busy every day training, been putting in a lot of time, practicing and playing matches. Obviously it's sad because you like to go and do things, but then again you're trying to prepare for the Open so I'm trying to put the time and effort on that side. I have to miss out on the good stuff, I guess.

WAYNE FERREIRA: Trying to work on little aspects on the game. A bit of physical running around, trying to get in the best shape I can be because the Open is always difficult in that respect. Practicing side, you know, not really doing too much, just trying to work on little aspects and trying to improve, trying to work on making myself an all-around player. You know, nothing really special.

WAYNE FERREIRA: All the Grand Slams are tough. I always try and prepare myself the best possible way I can for the Grand Slams. I do the same for the Australian and the French and the US is no exception. It's hot like the Australian and you have to be in good shape.

WAYNE FERREIRA: Good question. I don't know. (Inaudible).

WAYNE FERREIRA: Well, they haven't really been dominating this year at all. No one's really been dominating anything. Maybe the Open will be the same. For the rest of the tournaments this year, Sampras and Agassi haven't really been any better than anybody else.

WAYNE FERREIRA: Yeah, I think it's great.