VIRGINIA SLIMS CHAMPIONSHIPS

November 19, 1993

Anke Huber

ANKE HUBER: In the beginning maybe I was a little bit too nervous. I made everything too fast, my serve wasn't good enough, after a lot of doublefaults, but I just, yeah, I just tried to play my game afterwards and didn't think about anything, so I think that was the best way.

ANKE HUBER: I think it was good for me that there were a lot of long points because she doesn't has good conditioning, maybe not as good as me, so it was a little bit better for me that we played long points and long rallies. Yeah, it was fine.

ANKE HUBER: No, I didn't know anything about it and I think it came during the game, I think so. I didn't know anything about it.

ANKE HUBER: The key? Yeah, I think I played more aggressive than her. I took the ball earlier than her and this surface, I think it is very important.

ANKE HUBER: No, because I started already before she came, so she never was my idol, no.

ANKE HUBER: Not really a woman's player. I can't say there was any woman player was my idol. And I never watched a lot of tennis on TV when I was young, so I cannot tell you any better.

ANKE HUBER: I don't expect too much, because I played her in the French Open and I played a horrible match, so I try not to expect anything from this, just go into the match and try to play my game.

ANKE HUBER: What I learn, yeah, I just have to play my game and not to think about anything, but it's very difficult against her. I just want to match her all the time and want to play too good. I just have to try to play my game and not try to do something different.

ANKE HUBER: She has a very good serve, so she plays very hot, she takes the balls very early and she's fast. It's very difficult to play against her for me, she run -- I cannot say what's the most difficult thing for me, it's just everything.

ANKE HUBER: Excuse me?

ANKE HUBER: No, not really --

ANKE HUBER: Not really, I just said already before I just want to match all the time, I just want to play too good and when -- want to show too much of my game; sometimes crazy.

ANKE HUBER: Yes, very much.

ANKE HUBER: That I'm top ten? I'm already since two years, nearly two years top ten, so I think it's the same. It's not any more pressure.

ANKE HUBER: Sure, I have to come to the net, but it's not my game, so I try it, but it's difficult for me to do it in the match. I do it a lot in practice, but it's just not my game.

ANKE HUBER: Yes, she plays all the time like this. She is more a clay player than a player on this surface, fast surface, so I knew it before, sure.

ANKE HUBER: They didn't?

ANKE HUBER: Didn't?

ANKE HUBER: I didn't have the feeling, I enjoyed it out there so I cannot really say that they didn't feel it, I don't know.

ANKE HUBER: Yes.

ANKE HUBER: I don't know, I feel a lot of confidence when I play against Conchita, now, today, yeah, I came into match and I thought I never lost against her so it is all the time better to play against somebody you never lost, it is easier for you, yeah, sure, and I like her game also so it's just, yeah, just I have a lot of confidence when I'm playing her.

ANKE HUBER: Against her or what do you mean?

ANKE HUBER: Today, yeah, sure, she does make a lot of easy errors, unforced errors so it's -- it's tough to play her, yeah, you have to do everything on your own, it is tough.

ANKE HUBER: I, sure, but it's easier to play all the time cross court with her backhand than to play a long line, it is a very difficult shot so, yeah, I try to let her move a lot to play her forehand but if it is a little bit too short she comes in and plays very hard so if my shot is a little bit too short you have no chance. I think I played the right game against her.