U.S. OPEN

September 3, 1995

Scott Draper

SCOTT DRAPER: Serve? I don't know, I couldn't find the court at all on the serve and that wasn't helping me playing so many serves so well. The pressure is on me every game to keep holding and I had one of those days where I just couldn't find the court with my serve at all.

SCOTT DRAPER: I didn't feel comfortable out there at all. Just never was focusing on the points in the match, I couldn't -- I just wasn't comfortable at all and I couldn't think clearly, and I didn't feel like playing matches, sort of happened so quickly. It was a big blur and -- but it's experience I suppose and I will look at it like that and it will benefit me in the future I suppose.

SCOTT DRAPER: The ball seemed to be fine on that court. I only struggled to keep the ball inside the baseline. Maybe I wasn't hitting enough top spin or something but it just felt like it wasn't flying off my racquet, and I lost confidence and got nervous and didn't feel comfortable in any stage of the match. And it's probably the easiest third round that Michael will have to play, I'd say.

SCOTT DRAPER: I mean, I was -- went out there expecting to serve a little bit better which would get me the point for a start. And I was going to try to mix it up, serve volley a little, and I didn't do that because I wasn't making first serves at all. And I tried to keep the ball deep on both sides, high, I think he likes it in the hitting zone and I wanted to keep it above his shoulders and wait for an opportunity to hit the ball way in. And I just never got into the rhythm at all and I wasn't concentrating enough as I should. And the bottom line is I wasn't comfortable out there, I couldn't think clearly.

SCOTT DRAPER: It's been funny the way this year's gone for me. That doesn't take away from the fact that I'm absolutely pretty much livid about my performance out there. You know, I'll say a great effort third round, but the bottom line is I was playing a tennis match out there and it was an absolute disgrace, and it's certainly something that I'll remember and, you know, it will benefit me in the future, I think. At the moment I just want to tend to forget about it.

SCOTT DRAPER: Well, I'm going to go home and that will help. I've been on the road for five months and it will be good to get home and play some golf and see my family. And it's certainly not going to affect me long-term or any, it's just in the next -- I don't take long to get over things, it will probably be -- the next day or so I'll be upset about it, but it's only a tennis match and some people have a lot of other problems than I have, so, you know, no worries.

SCOTT DRAPER: Thank you.

End of FastScripts….