U.S. OPEN

August 30, 1995

Karel Novacek

KAREL NOVACEK: Well, it's been a tough year. I've been fighting with injuries this year. Actually, I felt pretty good coming into this tournament. I just got somebody who was serving so big, it was hard to deal with today. So I went down, and I'm still going to have good memories for this tournament. So tennis it's not over yet. After semi-finals last year, it's been a very hard draw.

KAREL NOVACEK: Seems like yesterday. Actually, the year passed very quickly. It's good to be back here. At least I still got my doubles left to play. And hopefully, I can enjoy to play that competition and go longer than I did in my singles. That's life. I think I could have done better, if there would have been better decent draw, but I played somebody who last couple of weeks was really playing well. And he was really only one who gave battle to Agassi. He just proved today he has a big, big serve. That when he's on fire, he's very, dangerous.

KAREL NOVACEK: Well, no. I don't know.

KAREL NOVACEK: Yeah, I've had a drop in my rankings. On the other hand, at least I did it once. That's in my head as a good memory.

KAREL NOVACEK: Yeah, I had the knee, knee injury which got better right after Wimbledon. But I have been struggling with that for three months, and I got into it and after the tournament in Amsterdam right when I came to play tournament, I hurt my back. I was out for another three weeks without any practice. So it's been -- I passed one injury, and I got back into the rhythm again and another injury blew me away from tennis tournament so... I felt okay today. I was just not able to return the serve.