COMPAQ GRAND SLAM CUP

December 8, 1992

Wayne Ferreira

WAYNE FERREIRA: No, I just -- I just felt a little bit down that I lost my serve. I got myself into a bit of trouble, and then mentally was not there for the rest of the match.

WAYNE FERREIRA: What ball boy incident?

WAYNE FERREIRA: Oh. No.

WAYNE FERREIRA: For the last two months, since the U.S. Open, I have had a bad, really bad matches. It has happened quite a lot. I think that is what probably started it off today. I just -- bad time that I have had since then, the way I have been playing and everything, got me into a bad state of doing the same thing all the time, and then badly when I start losing kind of giving up a little.

WAYNE FERREIRA: No, I don't think it had anything to do with it. I think it just had to do, I took a little bit of time off after the U.S. Open because it had been a long year and I didn't prepare well enough for the Sidney indoors. I didn't do well there and from then on I had battled to get back into it and battled with the matches and it just got worse and worse; each match I played got worse and worse.

WAYNE FERREIRA: I am going to go back home, have Christmas and then try and prepare as well as I can, better than I have than the last four months. Beginning of the year, I am going to start down in Australia. Hopefully, I will be more prepared than I have been.

WAYNE FERREIRA: Well, I have just come from Johannesburg which is 2,000. It is not a problem with that. I just haven't played that much. I have been on a bit of a rest and I haven't played that much and I was here day before and I practiced for one day. So I didn't really have that much time to put in the kind of practice that I needed.

WAYNE FERREIRA: No, I am definitely going to try and play a lot less next year. By the time I got to the U.S. Open, I was really tired afterwards and you know, I felt I had played so much up until then and I am definitely going to try and spread it out more and have more time off so that I will be able to stretch the year out longer and be more prepared for each tournament throughout the year.

WAYNE FERREIRA: I got to start thinking about that now and do that a lot better, try and find a way either in Europe or in the States or somewhere where I don't have to travel as much, where I can be closer to the tournaments, and also if I play a tournament and I lose, say, like Tuesday, like I have nowhere to go and it would be nice for me to have somewhere to go, to be away from the tennis and just relax and prepare for the next tournament coming up.

WAYNE FERREIRA: Well, I am still deciding. I have to look into something seriously. I am thinking of a place, but I haven't made the decision yet.

WAYNE FERREIRA: Well, I was pretty nervous to start off today, more nervous than I have been for a lot of matches. I don't know if it was the money or if it was just the fact that I haven't been playing that well, but it was pretty bad for me today.

WAYNE FERREIRA: I just feel, I think it is just that I have had a long year and I have played a lot of matches and I have got really tired now, to the last part of the year and I haven't prepared -- haven't played that much. I have been trying to have more of a holiday and a rest to try and get myself more psyched to play tennis, and I think it is just, you know, the scheduling that I did this year was just too much. I will probably do it better next year.

WAYNE FERREIRA: Thank you.