NASDAQ-100 OPEN

April 2, 2005

Max Mirnyi

Jonas Bjorkman

MAX MIRNYI: Well, I guess it's a confirmation, a reassurance of us being somewhat a prominent team. It's good to be playing well and have good expectations, but it's the other thing of winning a major title like this one. So we've known each other for such a long time, but it's finally good to win one together.

MAX MIRNYI: I think we're just competitive enough where our game's good enough to the point where if we put that togetther, we become a tough team. So we tend to communicate well on the court, which is always a success for a good doubles team.

JONAS BJORKMAN: Yeah, yeah.

JONAS BJORKMAN: Yeah.

JONAS BJORKMAN: It's sweet. Obviously, you always want to win every tournament, and I never won here before. Last year was the third time I was a runner-up, so obviously I was disappointed when I couldn't get through. So, you know, it's always sweet when you finally get a tournament like this one. This is a major tournament you want to win, so it's an extra special feeling, sort of.

JONAS BJORKMAN: Well, we got off to a good start. I mean, Kev and Wayne are having a good start of the year, so they've had a lot of confidence; we knew that. But they're a tough team, because they're very good front-runners. So we knew we had to sort of be sharp from the beginning. We got that first break, which was important, and then from that on we saw the ball very clear today. We didn't make too many unforced errors, and played very solid in our service games. So everything sort of clicked. Put all the things together well today and took advantage of our chances.

JONAS BJORKMAN: No, that was Knowles-Nestor.

MAX MIRNYI: I think it differs because this is a bigger draw; I'm not sure.

MAX MIRNYI: No, there's certainly -- it's paid for, is that what you're asking, if it pays to play?

JJONAS BJORKMAN: Well, it's.. These days, every singles and double player almost play.

MAX MIRNYI: It's just a difficult commitment to make to play a schedule of doubles and schedule of singles at the same time. So most of the time you see either guys playing only doubles or guys playing only singles. It's tough to combine the two together. Jonas and I, for the past couple of years, have been always playing both schedules. It's also another reason why we were able to be successful this week, because we physically maybe have an extra edge over other teams.