US OPEN

August 27, 1997

Mark Philippoussis

Q. Can you comment on the match, how was it, how do you feel?

MARK PHILIPPOUSSIS: Well, it was a strange match. It was extremely windy out there on Center Court. The wind wasn't sort of blowing one way, swirling around, balls moving around a lot. And it was just hard to play out there. But, I am just -- I played I think good enough. Not as well as I'd like to, but just happy to get through. Obviously, I didn't want to win it that way. I would have liked to have played the whole match.

MARK PHILIPPOUSSIS: I thought he was serving pretty good actually. I had no indication. Before you play matches, he was getting his arm warmed up, he was getting a massage on it. But a lot of people do that to get it warmed up. I do it, too. But I didn't know that it was that bad.

MARK PHILIPPOUSSIS: Well, I mean, like I said, it is always difficult to play great when it is that windy. You sort of just want to get by. Not make too many unforced errors. I thought I served rather well as windy as it was, got a high percentage of -- got enough first serves in. But, you know, you got to move your feet a lot more. I was trying to come to the net. But I think I was trying too hard and rushing a bit and missing some approaches.

MARK PHILIPPOUSSIS: You know, you take it anyway you can. I think I am going to play until I think, Saturday, I don't know, my third round, but I play mixed doubles tomorrow which is good keep going with match play, have some fun, work on some things out there. So just take it a day at a time.

MARK PHILIPPOUSSIS: Yeah, I mean, things are great at the moment. My dad is here with me. I am feeling comfortable on the court, having fun on the practice court. Feeling confident in my matches. I know what I am capable of doing and how far I can go in this tournament. So, I am just keeping my head down and let my tennis do the talking.

MARK PHILIPPOUSSIS: That was great doubles. We are playing against Korda and Reneberg, a great doubles team. That was really tough doubles. Great one for people to watch. We played good together. We combine as a team. We are getting better. We enjoy playing out there and it definitely helps our singles by playing doubles.