U.S. OPEN

September 5, 1993

Lindsay Davenport

LINDSAY DAVENPORT: I started to get tired in the second set. Then once that ended, I felt fine again. I think I was just-- really wanted to -- I should have probably put it away in the second set. Then in the third set I stayed in there. I am pretty happy with the way I hung in there. Didn't give up. I mean, I feel all right. Obviously I am a little tired.

LINDSAY DAVENPORT: Well, I probably started to think ahead a little too much. I started then to make a lot of errors, and then when it got to 5-4, I came down from 40-Love down -- I made stupid errors. I have to stop doing that if I really want to get up there.

LINDSAY DAVENPORT: I mean obviously the day I played her whatever, she was sick or, you know, whatever but I played well that day and I still think I deserved to win. Today we both fought pretty hard. She played better, I just -- I made the errors way too fast for her to really have to play, I think. That is probably something I will have to improve on not to make way too many unforced errors. And get first serves in. She-- beginning of the second set she started to attack and come in. She stopped doing that. And then I don't know.

LINDSAY DAVENPORT: Yeah, that was great. That is probably the most fun match I have played. The crowd was going nuts. That was -- it was a lot of fun, and, I mean, it was packed and that is really exciting for me because that was the first time I really played on a big court for a big match. They were great. They were so alive and it helped me a lot. It was nice to feel someone in there really good.

LINDSAY DAVENPORT: It starts Tuesday.

LINDSAY DAVENPORT: Well, I'll probably end up leaving here on Tuesday. It is a little late probably to get out tomorrow. I will probably be there Wednesday.

LINDSAY DAVENPORT: Yeah. I played well. I mean, the one first match point was pretty lucky. I think that was kind of a miss/hit winner. I stayed pretty positive, played through it. And then once it got to deuce again, I then -- after the last time I just made two errors. I felt I lost the match more than she won it. But she won, so...

LINDSAY DAVENPORT: Well, sure she's a great player. She has been at the top before, and, you know, she knows how to win and, you know, there is no question. I think she plays -- is it Graf?

LINDSAY DAVENPORT: She plays Graf. That will be a tough one. If she gets by that I think she can do it. If she starts, I mean she can play, you know, she has been there before and she knows what it takes to win. If she starts playing good again and, I don't know, I think she was playing better when she was attacking, so I think she has got, to you know, probably dictate a little more than she was.

LINDSAY DAVENPORT: Yeah, that was nice. It was a fun match. I am really glad, you know, it was hard because the second set was really kind of mine and I let it slip, and once I got back in the third set I let it slip again. That is hard but it was so much fun, I mean, the crowd was absolutely great. I never had anything like that, and you know, that was just-- it was real fun and I am glad -- I mean, it was a good match, I think, so.

LINDSAY DAVENPORT: Yeah, but I felt they were behind me, too. A lot of people were yelling for me. I mean, she is well liked everywhere, so that is pretty hard, but I thought I got a fair following here.

LINDSAY DAVENPORT: Like I said, I mean, I just made too many errors, and I have got to stop doing that somehow. It is hard when you are going for it. I didn't want to ease up and not go for it. So I did and I paid the price with my errors a little. I just have to keep working hard and hopefully I will get another chance like this, which I think I will.

LINDSAY DAVENPORT: I am going to Asia in about a week and a half and then I am home for most of the fall. Then I will start probably back up again, I don't know.