U.S. OPEN

September 2, 1995

Brenda Schultz-McCarthy

BRENDA SCHULTZ-McCARTHY: I don't know, really know what the rule is. Only thing I try to do is, you know, try not to think about it too hard; just because I was playing really well too, 5-2 and I was doing the right thing. Even if she wouldn't be injured, she had troubles with getting some of those shots. So I was just focusing trying to -- trying to keep my game plan going, and I didn't really worry about the book, what the rule was. Because if you start worrying about that, then you know, it doesn't really help. So -- and I continued to play very well, so I don't think that long innjury timeout really hurt me. It was just at 2-Love, she hit a couple of really good shots and, you know, then I start thinking, oh, gosh, maybe the injury is not that bad. I just have to keep playing my game, and I kind of start worrying about it a little bit; before I knew it, I was 4-2 down because I wasn't playing against -- I wasn't playing the game. I was just playing against her, pretty much. And that wasn't too smart, but then I got back luckily, so...

BRENDA SCHULTZ-McCARTHY: I just wanted to chip and charge a lot, come in; make her move to the corner, and make her hit passing shot off balance, kind of not right hitting it right to her, but let her move. Then she have to hit the passing shot from a difficult position of the court and that was working really well; especially when I got her off the court and I come in, I hit -- she had troubles passing me. When I hit it right at her, she passed me pretty well. When she was on the run, especially going to the forehand, she had a lot of troubles.

BRENDA SCHULTZ-McCARTHY: I don't know. When did I play her before?

BRENDA SCHULTZ-McCARTHY: I don't even remember that. I did remember that I played her once before, but did I lose?

BRENDA SCHULTZ-McCARTHY: That is why I forgot.

BRENDA SCHULTZ-McCARTHY: It was windy, you know, this morning. It wasn't my best warmup. I think the other mornings I was warmed up much better. This morning, actually, I figured, hey, it is not going to be pretty because with the wind it is also hard to play pretty tennis. But that is why I kept the game plan like it was, like very short, not long rallies. I had the feeling at the beginning, we had a couple of long rallies, actually, and I was waiting them. But my serve is my best weapon, but it is so hard, and it is so -- there is a lot of speed. So when the wind takes it a little bit, sometimes the toss goes a little off and I still want to hit it 110 miles an hour and that sometimes doesn't always work. Especially, at the end I was placing it really well. I was placing it right to her forehand. She couldn't really move to that corner too well, so, you know, that helped me out a lot, that wide serve today.

BRENDA SCHULTZ-McCARTHY: I don't know. I remember I played her once on clay in Berlin. I beat her 4-4. It was a tough match, but she had a lot of troubles with some high topspin because I was playing to her and on the hard court here, it is just totally different ballgame than on clay, so you know I have played a very good match against her, so that tells me mixing it up would be a good plan to play. She is a tough hard court player. I would be very happy to beat her. She is 7th seeded, so it would be good.

BRENDA SCHULTZ-McCARTHY: I think everything is winnable. I mean, if I am on and my serve is on and, you know, my game is on, I can beat a lot of people, but it is just -- I won the first three rounds, normally that is a good sign. I grow in a tournament and Wimbledon I made that quarters, but it was kind of like I wanted to reach the quarters so bad and I had a couple of round of 16's before that; I kind of got caught up -- wanted to get to the quarters; I think I got over that in Wimbledon, I made the quarters so that is not a big deal anymore. So here, it is just a matter of, you know, winning the match. It doesn't matter if it is fourth round or first round; just I hope I play a good match against her and, you know, hope I can play the game the way I want to and I have a day rest tomorrow so I can practice on a couple of things.

BRENDA SCHULTZ-McCARTHY: Sure.

BRENDA SCHULTZ-McCARTHY: I think some of them are going to any Indian Wells and Lipton and some of them are going to play Delray Beach and stay in Florida; practice a couple of days and get ready for the Lipton. I mean, it is normally always a heavy schedule. I play Australia; then you get back for two weeks, you play Chicago, Oklahoma, Delray Beach, Lipton, it is a tough schedule, so this year it is going to be actually a little easier on me. I am just going to play Australia. There is no Chicago. I am just going to play Oklahoma, Delray Beach, Lipton. Every tournament I have a couple of weeks ago; what I like. I could practice on a couple of things. Normally after a tournament you get caught up in some mistakes, but you can't really change it because the next tournament is coming up; you have a couple of days, but you cannot really do anything in that. For me, I like it a lot to, first of all, I am at home after Delrey Beach, ten days at home; then I play Lipton, so I am close to Delray also, and I kind of like the schedule.

BRENDA SCHULTZ-McCARTHY: Yes.

BRENDA SCHULTZ-McCARTHY: Yeah, but it is a tough -- but they have a couple of days off after Indian Wells and Lipton because Lipton starts on Saturday and Indian Wells will be finished on Sunday. So they are going to have five days off so I think everybody is going to be fine.