TENNIS MASTERS CUP- HOUSTON

November 14, 2004

Guillermo Coria

THE MODERATOR: Good evening. Questions in English, please.

GUILLERMO CORIA: Yeah, the match changed a lot. I had an opportunity. The match changed. I had an opportunity in the third set when it was 4-2. I didn't take advantage of it. I got a lot of confidence there and strength. Then he was unstoppable.

GUILLERMO CORIA: I lost concentration that I had. I think I relaxed myself a little bit too much. I mean, I started to get nervous after the second forehand that I missed. That played against me. I didn't play the game that I was playing, and especially that 40-all. He really got fired up. That made a difference for him. Still, this is gonna be a good experience for me because I'm gonna learn from this. Hopefully, it won't happen again.

GUILLERMO CORIA: River Plate, a soccer team from Argentina. I'm a big supporter, big fan of it.

GUILLERMO CORIA: I think it's a very positive experience for me. I started the first match playing very bad. My attitude on court was very negative, was very bad. But then, immediately against Moya, my attitude changed and it was very positive. I also played very well. I lost today, but I think I fought until the end. For sure, this is gonna be an experience for me and for the next Masters Cup that I will play, it will be positive for that.

GUILLERMO CORIA: I don't really know. There's a whole bunch of young players that have a lot of talent and that work very hard. Obviously, what happened in Hamburg was very important for Argentinian tennis. The key of this, I don't know. If anybody would know this, there would be a lot of people that would do it. So there must not be something special. At the same time, there are other countries such as Spain and the US that also have this amount of players, good players.

GUILLERMO CORIA: I was very happy with the Argentinian support, of course. "Ole, Ole, Ole, Ole" is the way they cheer soccer in Argentina.

GUILLERMO CORIA: And now tennis. And not only in Argentina.

GUILLERMO CORIA: No, obviously, I worked at these shots when I was very young. It's a shot that I love to do and I try to do as much as I can. But, obviously, something that you have to work a lot on. Since I was very young, very little, I was trying that shot.

GUILLERMO CORIA: Yeah.

GUILLERMO CORIA: No, not at all.

GUILLERMO CORIA: It is, obviously, very difficult to play him here on this surface. His serve is a very big difference. On clay, when we played on clay, we were completely different players. He's now No. 1; I'm No. 4. I think at the time when we played stance was out of the Top 100. Still, it is very difficult to play against him here on hard court outdoors.