WIMBLEDON

June 27, 2000

Jan Siemerink

MODERATOR: Questions, please.

JAN SIEMERINK: That's a tough question (laughter). I think it's a matter of growing up, the youth growing up, they hit the ball harder. We used to play with wooden racquets. The guys nowadays don't play with wooden racquets anymore. They hit the ball harder. They don't seem to go to the net enough anymore because they just hit the winners from the baseline, then you don't have to go anymore. When we started playing, I mean, we had to use tactics to come in. Nowadays, they just hit it, they just come in to finish off the volley. That has also something to do with it. There are probably more different reasons, but it's hard to think about something else.

JAN SIEMERINK: Yeah, the returning is much better. Overall the guys hit the ball harder. Even for myself, it's getting harder and harder to play my own game because of this. You see now that the serve-and-volley players, they all have a big serve. If you don't have a big serve anymore, there's no way you can do well.

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