TENNIS MASTERS CUP- HOUSTON

November 12, 2004

Juan Carlos Ferrero

THE MODERATOR: Questions in English, please.

JUAN CARLOS FERRERO: I feel, you know, I'm not thinking in that, you know. I'm thinking that I lost the match, you know. I'm out of the tournament, you know. I didn't play a good tennis in these two match. But I'm not thinking of No. 1 right now.

JUAN CARLOS FERRERO: Yeah. Yeah, because I think he did a lot of mistakes in the first set, you know. I was serving well, you know, playing normal, not unbelievable tennis, you know. In the second set, I think I had chances with 3-all and love-30, you know. And maybe I had to take that game and try to finish the match. But, finally, I think he start to play better and better, you know. I keep in the same level, but finally he played better than me.

JUAN CARLOS FERRERO: Yeah, I think is not a good tournament for me, but I think I played a really good year, you know. I'm gonna finish No. 2 in the world for the year. I think it's great for me.

JUAN CARLOS FERRERO: You know, I think I'm gonna try to play at the same level as this year, you know. I play really good in all surface so I'm going to try to keep going in Australia and the rest of the tournaments.

JUAN CARLOS FERRERO: The reason, I don't know the reason. You ask to Nalbandian the reason to play good the first day and play bad this day, there is no reason. In tennis some days you play good and some days you play bad.

JUAN CARLOS FERRERO: No, no, no. No, not at all, you know. I think I arrive in a good day, you know, and I practice well and I try to do the same as the other tournaments. But was not possible.

JUAN CARLOS FERRERO: No, not yet. Not yet because I have a lot of time between right now and Davis Cup, you know. I will think in the next day maybe.