U.S. OPEN

August 30, 1994

Gabriela Sabatini

GABRIELA SABATINI: Well, very good. I mean, it -- I expected it to be a tough one. She played very well last week and she could be a very dangerous player. She has a great serve and when she's on, she's really tough. I think today she did a lot of errors and she got a little frustrated at the end. But I was very focused and playing very well, especially serving very well. So I was very satisfied.

GABRIELA SABATINI: I'm just, you know, very focused. I'm just trying to play my game and to hit the ball hard and stay more loose too. And since my serve is better, my strokes are much better. I'm feeling more comfortable, so that's a mental confidence too.

GABRIELA SABATINI: Yeah. I mean, I think even better. I'm feeling that everything is very good, and physically good, mentally good. I just have to go match by match and see how it goes.

GABRIELA SABATINI: Aggressive, attacking all the time, especially today with the way that the players are playing. They're hitting the ball so hard and if I don't hit the ball hard, I'm not going to win. So, I like to play aggressive and come to the net when I have a chance and that's my game.

GABRIELA SABATINI: I don't know about serve and volley. Maybe I can do it sometimes or come into the net when I have the chance, but, you know, I'm not going to come in all the time, but when I have the chance.

GABRIELA SABATINI: Just to be focused, you know, just have a good strategy on each match and have clear on my mind of what I have to do.

GABRIELA SABATINI: Juan Nunez.

GABRIELA SABATINI: We started again this year at the beginning of the year, and I felt like -- I think I learned everything I could from him and, I don't know, I thought that I needed a change and I did something new, I guess.

GABRIELA SABATINI: Everything. He's giving a lot of confidence in my game, especially being aggressive. We have been working on everything, but mostly on being aggressive.

GABRIELA SABATINI: How bad does it feel?

GABRIELA SABATINI: When you're in?

GABRIELA SABATINI: I'm not in doubt. I mean --

GABRIELA SABATINI: Well, yeah, I've been, but not today. Today I'm feeling very good.

GABRIELA SABATINI: Well, it was -- I think I had some very tough moments with a lot of frustration, and it's hard not to have good results, good wins. It's hard to be motivated sometimes, but I'm very positive and thinking ahead and that's how I am today. And my goal now is to improve my game and just be focused.

GABRIELA SABATINI: No, no, I don't think about that at all. I had already those moments, so I don't think about that.

GABRIELA SABATINI: Yes, I do like it because I don't have that much pressure. They're talking about other people and not so much me. So, I guess I feel more loose and I like to come from under. I like that way.

GABRIELA SABATINI: I know I have a chance to win the tournament and I do know that, you know, the key is to think about each match, but I know I have chances. So, if I just keep playing the same way and being focused, I have a good chance.

GABRIELA SABATINI: Not really. She had some loss -- loses, but that doesn't mean that, you know, she's -- she's vulnerable. I don't see it that way. I don't know how bad is her back. The players are not really talking about it. She seems to be playing the same way, and she's having problems sometimes, so we don't really know how bad it is.

GABRIELA SABATINI: I'm more comfortable, yeah. I think it has been much better, they put a lot of security a lot of tournaments. I think on this tournament it is a lot harder because there are so many people and sometimes I think you need a little bit more, still, security.

GABRIELA SABATINI: No, no, because it's still about me, so, I guess there's something else besides tennis. It has nothing to do with tennis and it's me. It's my person and that's the most important thing.

GABRIELA SABATINI: Yes, I do appreciate that.

GABRIELA SABATINI: Of course.

GABRIELA SABATINI: Yeah, yeah, I sing sometimes in the shower.

GABRIELA SABATINI: I don't know, people say that it is not too bad. Yeah, I still have that in my mind. That's something I love to do, to sing. I guess I feel very relaxed and that's my hobby today, and probably in the future I would like to do some record, I don't know, something.

GABRIELA SABATINI: Seniors?

GABRIELA SABATINI: I don't really know much about that. I know they are doing some things. I think Billie Jean King is organizing some things, but I don't know if it's going to be exactly like that. We still don't think about that because we're not there yet. But I don't really know much about it.

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