ATP TOUR WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP

November 17, 1994

Alberto Berasategui

ALBERTO BERASATEGUI: Much better. Now I guess it is finished and I know what this is now. Maybe I couldn't play my 100%, but it is a new experience for me to be here, and I am happy for that because I think I work hard to be here all the year, and I hope next year I can be here too. I like to qualify, and if I have to do it the same way like I did this year, I will try again.

ALBERTO BERASATEGUI: No, I am not frustrated because I came here; it would be difficult for me to win a match, and I am not upset because of that.

ALBERTO BERASATEGUI: Well, I guess he start training more on this kind of courts, and I think this year, especially, he played a lot of tournaments on these kind of courts, and he is a very good player. He can adapt himself to these kind of courts very easy. So I think that is why he is a good player, because he can play on all surfaces. The main reason, maybe it is because he has been to a lot of tournaments and because he is playing on these kind of courts.

ALBERTO BERASATEGUI: Yeah, it gives me hope to improve to play better on these kind of courts. I know I am not going to be a specialist on these courts ever and I think he can be a specialist because he has the game to be a specialist on these courts. He has proven it in Paris, Bercy; he got to the semifinals and if he got there, that is why he is a good player on these courts. And the thing I am saying that I want to improve on these courts, but I don't think I am ever going to be a specialist like Sergi.

ALBERTO BERASATEGUI: Combination. It is the way he moves. He is big. He has a good serve. He can go to the ball like he reach; big power on the court and that is good for this kind of court. The main reason, probably about the grip and the way he returns and his serve.

ALBERTO BERASATEGUI: Well, I am going to try -- if I play any of them, I am going to try to beat them, but I don't have to do that as a revenge. I don't want any revenge against them. I mean, they can say that I am not a good player on these courts or whatever they say, I don't know, but I think I am a worker of tennis and maybe they are cracks (sic) - I don't know, but I think of myself as a worker of tennis, and I don't think of myself as good as maybe as they are, or whatever, but if I am here, it is because I qualified and because I did a good year.

ALBERTO BERASATEGUI: Yeah, I will try that. Like I said before, I am going to try to improve on these courts. That means I am going to try to improve my serve a little bit; try to go to the net more to finish the points there, but like I also said before, I don't think I am ever going to be a specialist.

ALBERTO BERASATEGUI: Yeah, probably so, I have to see how my clay court season goes and then if it goes well probably, I go to Wimbledon. I don't play clay court beginning of the year. I have to look where I am going to play.

ALBERTO BERASATEGUI: No, I am starting at Dubai.