U.S. OPEN

September 3, 1993

Ginger Helgeson

GINGER HELGESON: I am pretty disappointed, but I had a good time out there, and I played a great match and that was my first time playing her and it was also my first time on a show court of that magnitude. And it is disappointing because I know I could have beaten her, but that is the way it goes, and I enjoyed it so it is not all bad.

GINGER HELGESON: Well, I was having trouble with my serve because it was so windy out. Basically, you -- basically had to hit a slice serve all the time otherwise your toss would be at the service -- I had to throw my toss lower and just slice it because it was just windy. It was just going everywhere. So I think that you know, hindered -- hindered my serve because I usually serve harder and bigger. I was struggling with that and couple of those games, you know, in the third set I came out and I had a doublefault to start off with, and that happened quite a bit. It was just -- it was tough adjusting to the wind, but other than that, I mean, it just came down to a few points here and there.

GINGER HELGESON: Yeah, I mean, my game plan when I went out there was to attack her second serve and the first set it was sitting a lot and then she started to slice it a lot more and it wasn't -- it was, you know, taking off a little bit. So it wasn't as easy to tag and come in. With the wind with her topspin a lot, the balls were landing shorter but they were still up here, so you know, it -- I guess during some points it is a negative and during others in the wind it is a positive because it gets away from players. It is tough to hit a winner from up here (Indicating).

Q. Thank you.