U.S. OPEN

September 6, 1994

Jaime Yzaga

JAIME YZAGA: Well, it was very difficult, you know, very, very difficult match. He didn't give up, you know, even though he was really tired, and he was -- he couldn't -- he couldn't -- he was showing it, and I really couldn't see it, but he was playing better and better, you know, as the match, you know, 5-3, 5-4, 5-5, you know, and it was really hard, but he did good. I kept my cool, people were really in to it, and you know, at the moment I said, this is -- I mean, it was difficult to -- as the people were getting into it, you know, but I was a little lucky at the end, you know, broke him in the last game. I played a great match, yeah, didn't serve that well, but, you know, overall, I think I played very much.

JAIME YZAGA: Well, you know, at the end of the third set I think when we start -- when he was up 3-Love, all of a sudden I broke him and he start walking little bit like that and he was showing it out there, so -- I congratulate him because he never really gave up, and obviously he wasn't feeling well, but that's what makes a champion, he kept fighting until the end.

JAIME YZAGA: When I came back, you know, 3-All or -- and, you know, I said if I can win this set, I had a great chance because I really saw that he was getting tired, more tired every time.

JAIME YZAGA: I came out to the match really trying to make him move, to try to move him as more as I could because he played three matches before, but he didn't play anybody that would play from the baseline and move him around. So, that was my strategy, was to move him around as much as I could. So I didn't change any.

JAIME YZAGA: Did we play a tiebreaker here? Jesus. Oh, in the fourth set, okay, okay. I said, where was I playing. I just got a tighter racket because probably we changed balls at that moment. So I just got a tighter racket.

JAIME YZAGA: I did a couple times, but it's really hard to do it on hardcourt. You know, the ball might, you know, bounce a little higher, so, it's -- it wasn't really on my mind all the time, I just did it one or two times.

JAIME YZAGA: Well, you know, I knew the match wasn't over until it was over, till the last point. So, I doublefaulted there, you know, and I was having trouble with my serve the whole match, doublefaulting and putting very, very low percent first serves in. So, I just tried to keep cool and keep going as much as I could.

JAIME YZAGA: Yeah, of course. Everybody was saying that he's unbeatable, whatever. You know, that's really hard to say. Everybody, I think, is beatable. He's a great player, he's probably the best player in the world right now, and you have to play real, real well to beat him. But I think everybody is beatable.

JAIME YZAGA: I'm not feel that well, sorry -- can we stop it -- who's in charge here? I'm not feeling well.