VOLVO MONTE-CARLO OPEN

April 19, 1994

Andre Agassi

ANDRE AGASSI: You are going to have to be more specific.

ANDRE AGASSI: Be more specific.

ANDRE AGASSI: Yeah, I felt like, you know, I was controlling the match so handedly; then I got little bit impatient. I felt like I should have kept on hitting these big shots, and I wasn't as patient as I needed to be as the match went on, and I am disappointed in the way I played because I felt like I was in control, the whole thing, but yet kind of gave it away.

ANDRE AGASSI: Yeah, this was -- didn't have Brad here, which was a confidence problem for me. I like having Brad around, and I just-- mentally, I don't think I was where I needed to be, and I'm going to do everything I can to not let this affect this week and the week after. The balls were real heavy; everything was real heavy here today. Rome and Paris are a little quicker. This would have been an isolated week for me to do well here. I had got to move on and get things going the right way again.

ANDRE AGASSI: No, he has been three weeks in Asia and, you know -- no, we will meet up in Atlanta, and he will be with me Rome through France.

ANDRE AGASSI: Yeah, that is just one of the things that goes along with the job, that are - definitely they are negatives; they are not easy to deal with. I mean, it has been a real long day, but I got off to a good start so I can't really say much for that. I just -- you know, I don't know, maybe when the lights started getting darker, I didn't really pick up the ball as well. I don't know what happened. I got to think about it a little bit more, but I am not happy with it.

ANDRE AGASSI: Well, yeah, I felt like I was impatient for the second and the third set. My confidence wasn't there. When my confidence isn't there, you try to overcompensate; you try to hit big shots and get your confidence going. It was just - it was all wrong. I mean, I played like a dumb ass. That is the bottom line.

ANDRE AGASSI: Well, I think the strategy is a big thing. I never played this guy and strategy is one; just going out there, you know, with that kind of confidence knowing that you have a game plan that you can stick to it.

ANDRE AGASSI: I mean, clay is something it takes an adjustment more mentally than with your game, and, you know, I got a few weeks more on it which is good before the French, but, you know, I was hoping to do well. I liked my draw; everything was perfect for me to get - win the match or two and get everything high, and my confidence up, but, you know, it didn't work for me this week, and, you know, now I got to wait until Rome.

ANDRE AGASSI: I don't know.

ANDRE AGASSI: I don't know. I am playing in Atlanta next week; that is what I do know.

ANDRE AGASSI: Today it was all me. Had nothing to do with him. I think he plays well. But clay is not his surface. He is not comfortable on clay, and I just, you know, I am responsible for it. That is the bottom line. He had to play well enough to make me lose it, but I am just disappointed in the way I played.

ANDRE AGASSI: Yeah, I know what I don't want to do when I go to Paris.

ANDRE AGASSI: Atlanta, Rome.

ANDRE AGASSI: Yeah, I mean, I don't know what to say, I mean, I am not -- very disappointed about my performance out there. I mean, where do you start with that? Don't ask me, you know. That is why, you know, I would have felt a lot better to have Brad here; then you have the confidence; that even if things don't go well, you know what you are going to work on and you feel directed. The way I feel right now is the way I felt all those years with Nick: I have no idea of what the hell happened out there, and that is very frustrating, but, you know, I got to do something and got to think about it and come up with a game plan. I don't doubt my confidence long-term. I mean, I know I can play on clay. I know I am playing well and I know I will be ready by the French, but it is just disappointing that it hasn't happened for me this week.

ANDRE AGASSI: Yeah, it does because now it is the first time of my career that I have had direction, you know, and two years ago, I'd lose and I wouldn't -- nobody was really there to help me understand why or what I needed to do next. Now, it is different. Now I feel like every time I step on the court I am hitting another level, and it is frustrating to me because this is very, very under par for me. It is not anywhere near where I have been playing, and it is a lot more frustrating now than it ever was. Home is the last place I want to be right now. I want to be playing here again tomorrow. I felt like I could have come here and won this tournament. Certainly not playing like that.