CHASE CHAMPIONSHIPS OF THE COREL WTA TOUR

November 22, 1996

Martina Hingis

MARTINA HINGIS: For myself, I play very good tennis right now, since a couple of last weeks, since I won my first tournament in Filderstadt and I also like to play indoors a lot. I have great results there. I'm playing very good tennis, yes.

MARTINA HINGIS: It was my first and last game against Kimiko, so somehow it's exciting to go on the court and play her. But I was just concentrating for my match and the opponent doesn't matter, if you are on the court.

MARTINA HINGIS: It was -- yeah, I was leading, so it was -- but it was like very much in the court, so I just thought we played a point because -- it wasn't very important.

MARTINA HINGIS: I'm not going to have a regular partner, I don't play so many doubles tournaments anymore, because I want to concentrate much more for the singles, especially if I can win a tournament. So I want to play more. Probably I'm going to play every tournament with someone else or just a couple of tournaments, but I'm going to take more time off and relax before the singles matches.

MARTINA HINGIS: Yeah, because there's no wind, no sun and you just can play your fast tennis, and I like to play that. And the balls, they jump the same way all the time, so it's also easy.

MARTINA HINGIS: She's had a great tournament here, she beat Anke Huber in the first round and Martina, and they're not very easy to beat. We always had a lot of fun when we played each other on the court. And one time I played her also in doubles, she was my partner, and we also -- we always have a lot of fun on the court.

MARTINA HINGIS: She said good-bye for everyone, I said we're going to meet on the court again, so I don't say good-bye to you right now.

MARTINA HINGIS: Well, it's hard to say something if you beat somebody, and that was your last match. But she's starting a new life, so I just thought we played a good match and good luck for your next life.

MARTINA HINGIS: For your future (laughter.) New life, beginning, yeah.

MARTINA HINGIS: It doesn't change a lot in my life, I just started to practice more a little bit and the Wimbledon win in doubles it got me much more confidence in my mental part, especially. And then I took the advantage of it and I play very good matches at the U.S. Open and it was a big help. It wasn't very good in the beginning of the year, in the middle I didn't play very well at the Olympics and also before Key Biscayne and Hilton Head I didn't have very good matches there, but then I have to do a little more for my tennis if I want to get higher. In one year I've been in the same place, like from 15 to 20.

MARTINA HINGIS: She played great tennis today, I mean the way she played the last tournaments, and she won three tournaments in a row. And I think she likes to play indoors much better than the other surfaces, but she has a great game for Arantxa, too, especially indoors, because Arantxa took a time off, she didn't play tournaments for one month or even more. So she wasn't really ready for this tournament. And Jana just plays an excellent game right now.

MARTINA HINGIS: I won, so it's hard to say how she played. But I think it was -- I don't know, you have to ask her how she felt on the court. She didn't play many tournaments in the last time so it's probably hard to play again. And it's your last tournament, it's probably a little pressure on you, you want to try to play your best tennis. And if it doesn't work, so I don't know how she felt. But I played almost a perfect game today, so I didn't give her any chances today.