XXVI OLYMPIC GAMES

July 23, 1996

Jonas Bjorkman

JONAS BJORKMAN: Close what?

JONAS BJORKMAN: Yeah, I think I should have won -- definitely won one of the two sets. I had so many opportunities, so, you know, definitely should have won one of these sets. And I think if it goes to three sets, I think I have a little advantage. I am a little bit more fit than he is for the moment.

JONAS BJORKMAN: I don't know, really, but he is not the same Andre like I have seen the last time I met him in Australian Open, so he probably needs to maybe get little bit better to get up to that standard.

JONAS BJORKMAN: I don't know. I think he is not moving that good like he did before. That is why he is missing little bit more when he did before also, so I don't know. I don't know if that is the key. I don't want to talk shit about Andre, but....

JONAS BJORKMAN: That is -- I don't know. I see it that way.

JONAS BJORKMAN: I was up 4-1, but, you know, he started to pick up a few good returns in that game, and that side was difficult to serve, you have the sun right up there, so I maybe didn't get the same power like I had in the other starting service games, and then I finally got back again and then, you know, I should have won the first set, but that is the way it is.

JONAS BJORKMAN: Oh, definitely. I had a tough five set match against him there and even if I haven't played a singles matches for a long time, I still felt pretty good on the practice and I was hoping to do a good match and win the match, but unfortunately it didn't -- it went the other way.

JONAS BJORKMAN: Yeah, it is different.

JONAS BJORKMAN: I haven't tried it. It might don't have to be that bad like it looked, but I rather play in the shirt I have.