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US OPEN


August 30, 2004


Conchita Martinez


NEW YORK CITY, M. Vento-Kabchi/C. Martinez 0-6, 6-2, 6-3

THE MODERATOR: Questions, please.

Q. I suppose this is the last year you'll be playing here.

CONCHITA MARTINEZ: I'm not sure yet.

Q. You keep firing.

CONCHITA MARTINEZ: What's that?

Q. You've had a good year, actually.

CONCHITA MARTINEZ: No. Actually, one of the worst years. I mean, I had a couple good tournaments, but after that, not much.

Q. What was your problem today?

CONCHITA MARTINEZ: I think I started playing really good but mentally I didn't -- I didn't hang in there, you know, for the whole match. She started playing a little better, and then I started playing worse, too, making unforced errors.

Q. With your home in California, your part-time home there, does this humidity bother you more, do you suppose, than it would somebody who's more used to it?

CONCHITA MARTINEZ: I'm sure if you're used to it, it doesn't bother you as much.

Q. Did it bother you today?

CONCHITA MARTINEZ: A little bit. It's humid and we're not used to that.

Q. What's next for you?

CONCHITA MARTINEZ: The next is... I'm thinking. I'm not sure yet. I mean, I have a couple tournaments in the fall. But until that, I have a big break.

Q. You gonna take a big break now?

CONCHITA MARTINEZ: I have like until Luxembourg is my next tournament. So I have I don't know if it's a month or something.

Q. I get the feeling you're very disappointed by losing this match.

CONCHITA MARTINEZ: Of course. I mean, it's not nice to lose in a first round of a Grand Slam. I mean, it's not the first time it happened; Wimbledon was and Australian Open, I think, was first round, too. So it is disappointing.

Q. Forgive me, I walked in late. You won the first set.

CONCHITA MARTINEZ: 6-Love, yeah.

Q. And then?

CONCHITA MARTINEZ: And then what?

Q. Then what happened to your game?

CONCHITA MARTINEZ: Do you know the score or no?

Q. I know you lost the next two sets.

CONCHITA MARTINEZ: She started playing better and I started making more unforced errors. The second set, I mean, the first three, four games she started playing more aggressive. I thought I didn't last mentally.

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