U.S. OPEN

September 6, 1993

Thomas Muster

THOMAS MUSTER: Why not?

THOMAS MUSTER: Why not? I can cross the net however I want. I can walk around or cross it like I did. Who cares? If I feel like doing it, why not? It doesn't matter.

THOMAS MUSTER: Well, yeah, that is why I am not going. That is why I said I am not playing in New Zealand because I want to reach the Masters and have another claycourt tournament, I want to use that. And if I am going to Australia, I can't play both of them and this would really hurt me. So I think -- I mean everybody agreed that Skoff and Antonitsch playing against New Zealand; if we go down to second division, I am definitely not playing next year for -- stay in the first division then get together; we have to figure out something.

THOMAS MUSTER: Just have to read Brad Gilbert's book then you know everything. You need to read his book, then you know everything.

THOMAS MUSTER: Well, just certain parts.

THOMAS MUSTER: No. No. I just -- in particular, I mean, he is a kind of person I don't like and not many people like, so it doesn't matter.

THOMAS MUSTER: Never played in San Francisco, never been there.

THOMAS MUSTER: No. I mean, it is his problem. He has to get away with it. I mean --

RICHARD FINN: Thomas, can you talk a little bit about the match; what turned around the match. I want it on the record.

THOMAS MUSTER: Nobody ask that.

RICHARD FINN: I just want it to be on the record so anybody upstairs and the writers that aren't here right now, talk a little bit about the match then being in the quarterfinals of the U.S. Open.

THOMAS MUSTER: I feel very happy because I think -- in the round of 16 -- I have reached the quarterfinals. I just came here on Sunday and I think it is a very great effort for me to do that. I think I have a good chance to go to the semifinals which would be very good for me because then I would have reached the semis in Australian, Paris and U.S. Open, which means a lot to me. So I am very happy I won the match.

RICHARD FINN: After the third set tiebreaker, what turned it around in the fourth set?

THOMAS MUSTER: I was up just 2-Love and I got broken again, which I think was because I lost a little bit the concentration and I went down a little bit but I think I had a good come back; then broke him again and in the last game, I think, I played quite good tennis.

THOMAS MUSTER: Yeah, that was good for me because I had a lot of time to prepare my shots. I was hitting many forehands, so he had to run a lot. I think he got a little tired also and he wasn't as quick anymore at the net and I think I returned better than he did, I mean, he never -- he just chipped my serves back and he never really did much.

THOMAS MUSTER: No, it was okay for me because I could prepare my shots very well and open up the court and so he had to cover that court, and then whenever I felt like coming in, I came in. He missed it early because he had --

THOMAS MUSTER: I think one more day rest again and probably relax tomorrow, we will try to prepare myself for my next opponent and I will be ready.