THE MASTERS SERIES - INDIAN WELLS

March 12, 2000

Nathalie Dechy

WTA: Questions for Nathalie.

NATHALIE DECHY: I guess so. I did some, not too many, but one or three like this that you never finish them. You're leading all the match, and she's coming back. I had so many opportunities. Tennis is like that sometimes. It's a weird game. That's why everybody likes it.

NATHALIE DECHY: Excuse me?

NATHALIE DECHY: Yeah, but at 4-All, I knew that I had lost many chances already. But I say, "Okay, even if I didn't play well there, it's still 4-all in the final set, you can still do something." I didn't think about what happened before, and just played the point.

NATHALIE DECHY: Hard court. Well, I don't like clay, so.

NATHALIE DECHY: 23 (laughter).

NATHALIE DECHY: Somebody told me this week. I don't mind.

NATHALIE DECHY: Thanks. But to be in the Top 10, you have to win many matches like this. I won one last week. I did a great match last week, a little bit the same, and this week again. I have to win again a few more like this.

NATHALIE DECHY: There's too many. Five or six, I don't know.

NATHALIE DECHY: Well, I never gave up, because I could have done it a lot of time before. Even in the tiebreak, I still believed that I could win. I was trying to get focused on my game, to do my best.

NATHALIE DECHY: No, I didn't think it was over. I know she's a good fighter. But I don't know what happened at 5-1. She didn't miss anything. She did so many unforced errors in the beginning of the second set, it surprised me little bit. I thought it would be tougher like the beginning of the second, so I was a little bit surprised by this. But then she didn't miss anything. I was waiting that she give me the match, but she didn't (laughter).

NATHALIE DECHY: Yeah, I finish at around 10:00. But every match, we've been the last one for the last three days. I'm getting used to it.

NATHALIE DECHY: Yeah, uh-huh. I'm going to do I think the same today because we're playing again doubles. It's a nice site, so I don't mind.

NATHALIE DECHY: I think today I'm going to rest a little bit because I deserve it. But, no, I have to run a little bit just to take the pressure away. I don't know, I'm going to make some few phone calls in France and wait.

NATHALIE DECHY: Well, first of all, my goal is not to beat one of the French girls.

NATHALIE DECHY: To go to the Top 10 is to keep working like I'm doing since a little bit. I can still go more at the net, improve my serve even. It's a lot better now than it was like six months ago. I have so many things to improve on each stroke.

NATHALIE DECHY: There's two. They are the Federation. Olivier Beranger and Georges Goven.

NATHALIE DECHY: I feel like a winner because I won (laughter).

NATHALIE DECHY: Yeah, it's always good, even if it was a tough match, to finish and win it. That's a big point for your confidence. If I had to lose that match, could have been a little bit hard. I mean, this is some really strange match, but it's always good to win them.

NATHALIE DECHY: Yeah.

NATHALIE DECHY: The tiebreak was maybe the best part of the match because I really --.

NATHALIE DECHY: That's true. That's what happened.

NATHALIE DECHY: I think she was maybe trying to cut the pace, to do something else because she didn't know what to do anymore. Yeah, it was weird. I played her on grass, and she's doing a lot of this kind of stuff, so I was used to it.

NATHALIE DECHY: The 11th game of the first set?

NATHALIE DECHY: It was too long ago, I don't remember (laughter). I don't know. The first set - I don't remember.

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