DAVIS CUP - SWEDEN vs ITALY

December 4, 1998

Davide Sanguinetti

Q. Did the injury of Andrea Gaudenzi make a big difference for you in your game?

DAVIDE SANGUINETTI: Yes. Of course, I wanted to play, and I wanted to win for Andrea, but I couldn't do it. I'm a very emotional player. My game is based on emotions. Unfortunately, my game was affected by the injury of Andrea.

DAVIDE SANGUINETTI: I'm physically okay, but mentally I'm a little bit down now. I will talk with the captain and with the whole team and that will help me very much for tomorrow.

DAVIDE SANGUINETTI: Well, it's easy to play when your opponent is not playing the greatest match, and he's not playing really, really good. I mean, I gave him the first set. Then I started playing a little bit better in the second. But, I mean, all of a sudden I had so much tension in me that I was feeling like I was going to throw it up. I mean, it was different. I don't know. I felt like I couldn't do anything. And then he won the second set, it was easy for him. He start like hitting the ball as hard as he could. Every ball went in. I mean, it's easier to play when you are two sets up than two sets down.

DAVIDE SANGUINETTI: We don't have a lot of possibility to win tomorrow because they have a really strong doubles team. But you never know. Somebody could get hurt again, as magically happened today. But we'll try to win tomorrow anyway.

DAVIDE SANGUINETTI: I was sorry for him, for his injury. It's not because of him losing the match, but because we don't now how bad his injury is now. It could be really bad, a bad injury, but we don't know how bad the injury is.