U.S. OPEN

August 31, 1994

Meredith McGrath

MEREDITH McGRATH: Well, I mean, Gabriela is a good player. She put a lot of pressure on me. I didn't feel like I played as well as I could. I didn't feel I served particularly well and I gave her an opportunity to put some pressure on me on my second serve and, you know, in the third we had some close games, I ended up losing them. Maybe if I could have won the first or second game there that it would have been a little bit closer.

MEREDITH McGRATH: Three times.

MEREDITH McGRATH: Well, I mean, I just really wanted to work hard to try to hold my serve. I mean, neither one of us were exactly winning our serves that often. It was almost easier for me to break serve than to hold as it was for her. On the third set, I just wanted to try to keep the momentum going a little bit that I had gathered. It would have gone a lot better if I would have gone to the third set after winning 6-2 and instead of letting it slide and winning it 7-6, that is the way it happened.

MEREDITH McGRATH: I think that there is some people out there who will give her a lot of problems. I think she is playing well, but she sometimes is a little bit difficult for me, in particular, to play, whereas maybe somebody like Steffi handles her a little bit better.

MEREDITH McGRATH: Just the way she -- she doesn't have a lot of pace on her balls. She is really loopy and slice -- and she just kind of yanks you around the court until -- maybe then she will hit a big shot to finish the point, but she is difficult in that respect, I guess.

MEREDITH McGRATH: I wasn't surprised. I had played her at Wimbledon this year also and she did the exact same thing. The same thing happened in that match, I didn't get enough first serves in. I gave her an opportunity to come in on my second serve. She can do that well. She likes to do that.

MEREDITH McGRATH: A lot of hard work.

MEREDITH McGRATH: I am a little bit erratic. One day I can be volleying great but I am not hitting my groundstrokes well, or vice versa. I mean, it is -- always something is a little bit off and I just need to work on my consistency as well as just simply improving in all those areas.

MEREDITH McGRATH: That would probably help.