ATP TOUR WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP

November 15, 1993

Sergi Bruguera

SERGI BRUGUERA: Considering the three players I could play against, it doesn't matter one or the other. Everybody in my group is it very tough.

SERGI BRUGUERA: Well, this is something I don't know because I never played at that time. It will be very new for me, and I'm not very sure about how will I react against this circumstance.

SERGI BRUGUERA: I am very happy. To be here among the eight best players of the world is like an award after my successful year.

SERGI BRUGUERA: I don't know if the surface was exactly the same, because they all are very close. I only notice if it's more or less fast or if the ball rebounds more or less. But I can't say very concretely.

SERGI BRUGUERA: Yes, it's very much the most important thing. The one who has a good serve has a lot of advantages to win. I will try to do my best and my return, and so maybe I can beat the serve of the other player. This will probably be the key of my matches.

SERGI BRUGUERA: It's his problem if he decided to dress different from the others. You can ask him.

SERGI BRUGUERA: What could I say? I completely agree. But these are things that you will say and you will propose, but you will never get. In indoor there is not one single Grand Slam tournament and, furthermore, this surface is giving many advantages for example to players like Sampras, Courier or Ivanisevic. Everything Ivanisevic got in '93, he did it on fast court.

SERGI BRUGUERA: Well, I don't think it's strange. If he is not here it's because he didn't do a good season, and that's it. In fact, the last year he got to be here in the very last moment, and he had a whole year to get the same and he couldn't get it.

SERGI BRUGUERA: I will be one week on holiday, and then I will go to the Grand Slam Cup.

SERGI BRUGUERA: It has an impossible date for me, and I had it very clear that I could never play it.

SERGI BRUGUERA: Because it's very hard to find a hole in the calendar; there are very few weeks overall, if you follow the circuit. The players that don't follow the circuit have for more possibilities and they play the National Spanish Championship.

SERGI BRUGUERA: Horrible. It's the worse moment in the whole year because it's when the circuit has more concentration of important tournaments.

SERGI BRUGUERA: I noticed the strength of the serve of the other player. When you are in front of Ivanisevic or Stich it's incredible, but in this surface you already know it. I am very happy to be here; I'm already satisfied because it is exceptional and it is a very nice end for my good seen. Of course I will try to do my best, but I know that if the others do also they are bound to win.

SERGI BRUGUERA: You try for it everywhere. Here maybe you have a special motivation and, in fact, you prepare exclusively for this event, but in general you give the best of yourself everywhere.

SERGI BRUGUERA: Maybe the strongest ones are Stich and Ivanisevic. I would also name Sampras and Edberg. The last one because he's doing very well in the last months of the season.

SERGI BRUGUERA: "Hello. I am Sergi Bruguera, and I send you from Frankfurt my hello and best of luck to qualify for the World Series in the United States."

SERGI BRUGUERA: Very many, because they are playing very well, and they have a very good team. Denmark will be a tough rival, and it will depend very much on who scores first.

SERGI BRUGUERA: In my club, but on cement. It is clear that if Spain is good on clay and not on cement, it's because we're not used to hard courts and because we don't have this kind of surface. On Clay court, if you do a mistake, you have time to recuperate, but on fast courts you don't. And when you change the type of court you have also to change your mentality, your game your strokes. Some people can get a better adaptation, and some others needs more matches for that. And, furthermore, on fast court a good serve doesn't give you any option.

SERGI BRUGUERA: Well, let's see. It will be very tough. The only thing I can try is to do the best I can do, and let's see what happens.

SERGI BRUGUERA: Well, I guess I will try everything, but it's very clear that it's not my strongest point.

SERGI BRUGUERA: The passing.

SERGI BRUGUERA: The baseline strokes.

SERGI BRUGUERA: Yes, of course, I would like to see him here.

SERGI BRUGUERA: Yes, and when I can I see their matches, although many times I have to see them on TV. It is hard when you travel so much to get your people to be playing home just right when you are there.

SERGI BRUGUERA: Not at all. It is very slow and very boring. I prefer the sports of action.

SERGI BRUGUERA: Because I rarely go to television shows. There is where people get well-known. But I don't like those shows because I don't feel comfortable.

SERGI BRUGUERA: Because to grow up as a tennis player and as a man at the same time opens many questions in your mind, and it's good to have somebody you are very confident with to talk to.

SERGI BRUGUERA: Every day more and more.

SERGI BRUGUERA: Anything in sports world. I couldn't be sitting and quiet in an office.

SERGI BRUGUERA: It's the same. Only the type of surface; it's very different.

SERGI BRUGUERA: I think that the most famous sportsman in Spain is a cyclist called Indurain. And after the players of Football Club Barcelona, the soccer players. I'm only a tennis player, not a star.

SERGI BRUGUERA: There are only two big tournaments on grass in the circuit, but one of them is very important and you have to go.

SERGI BRUGUERA: If the cup then calls me, of course I will.

SERGI BRUGUERA: My victory in Monte Carlo gave me a lot of emotions, and also my first indoor final in Milan. Also, my performance in Bourdeaux.