U.S. OPEN

September 2, 1995

Conchita Martinez

CONCHITA MARTINEZ: No, actually, it was my foot. It was -- I did something during my doubles matches today, and it's not quite -- I did something wrong, and there was a little bit short, but it's okay right now.

CONCHITA MARTINEZ: It's my right foot.

CONCHITA MARTINEZ: Sorry?

CONCHITA MARTINEZ: No, it wasn't easy at all. I mean, we have a couple of long games there in my service game which I was up, and then she came back and, you know, I was serving a lot, and I just have very good plays. She hits the ball hard and, you know, if you let her, she's -- it could be a really good match. But I'm very happy the way I played tonight,, so I'm improving every day.

CONCHITA MARTINEZ: Yeah. I mean, I'm trying to give to her in the baseline like, you know, with high balls so she couldn't hit the ball as comfortable like she would like to. And, you know, because if you let her short balls, she's going to like hit and it could be difficult.

CONCHITA MARTINEZ: Yeah, I've been playing very good this summer. I played very good. And I feel with a lot of confidence and yes, it was difficult to start a tournament, and the U.S. Open early. I mean, you're going to have a little bit of problems the first matches because it's always like nervous and blah-blah, but, I mean, as long as the tournament is going on, I mean, I'm improving every day. So hopefully my next match will be better than this one.

CONCHITA MARTINEZ: Well, I expect -- first of all, I'm going to have to deal with the crowd because, of course, playing against an American for sure there is going to be a lot of people on her side, and, you know, I'm going to try to concentrate on my match, on my game and try to play the best that I can and try not to let that bother me.

CONCHITA MARTINEZ: No. Actually, I'm not surprised at all. I mean, I have the game to play on hard surfaces, on fast surfaces, I mean, I'm having a lot of good results and, you know, I'm improving all the time every year and I feel that this year I play very good on hard courts and hopefully I can keep up this year's Open that good.

CONCHITA MARTINEZ: It's okay. It's great for my confidence. It feels like I'm playing good tennis and it gives me confidence which is super because it's always very difficult Grand Slam; there are a lot of distractions here and feeling that you coming here with good wins, playing good, being happy, you know, it's everything matches you.

CONCHITA MARTINEZ: Well, it's been quite a perfect one, yeah.

CONCHITA MARTINEZ: Quite a perfect one. I mean, I play, you know, those tournaments and one in London and play great tennis and, you know, when I'm playing good tennis I'm happy too, so it's quite perfect.

CONCHITA MARTINEZ: Oh, it would give me a great relief and I will have good holiday I'm sure.

CONCHITA MARTINEZ: No, because I -- you know, I never played real good at this tournament and, you know, coming here is always a little bit of nerves, you know, see if I'm going to play good this year or, you know, I can't concentrate, but I think I'm ready this year to play, but...