TMS - INDIAN WELLS

March 15, 2001

Gustavo Kuerten

MODERATOR: Questions for Gustavo.

GUSTAVO KUERTEN: Yeah, sometimes, you know, the match so close that you get to some level stage that everything that happen wrong, it's crucial. That's what happen that time. I think I just did what I felt. Just an impulse, something that happen.

GUSTAVO KUERTEN: No. It's a sign that I like to play, like to compete. When I'm angry, I'm angry. When I'm happy, I'm happy. I don't cover my feelings.

GUSTAVO KUERTEN: He played well, served good. I didn't feel the ball at all. I did not feel comfortable to play my game. Maybe he did the right thing to don't let me play as I want.

GUSTAVO KUERTEN: No. Just the way the match goes. You know, here, the ball comes and goes too fast, not really big rallies. More I get in the match, the better I feel. Hard court, sometimes it's tough for me.

GUSTAVO KUERTEN: No. I think the way I was playing, I couldn't put my mind all the time on the court. I play well one point and then I play bad the other. I didn't feel like the way I wanted to be to really play in a good level to win this match.

GUSTAVO KUERTEN: Yeah, the tiebreak was crucial for me. I had a couple of chances to break him in 5-All. The tiebreak, I miss some bad shots. I got a little disappointed. For sure I play worse the second set than the first. Sometimes it's frustrating. You playing, playing, playing to get to a tiebreak, and then lost the set. I think I felt more than I should this first set when I lost it.

GUSTAVO KUERTEN: I try to play my game. Every time I go on court, doesn't matter who I'm playing. I try to be aggressive when I need it. But I miss the shots that I had to made. When I try to be more concern and play a little bit deeper, I was missing sometimes, too. I didn't feel my game to start to do some special tactics. I just was trying to play okay, to feel better, then start to do something different.

GUSTAVO KUERTEN: Probably tomorrow I'm leaving to Miami or to Brazil. I haven't decide yet. Probably I'm staying in Miami for a few days.

GUSTAVO KUERTEN: I think it's nice to have the fans, the people watching. I think it makes the game more excited to play. I hope I have this feeling that there's nothing you can do, just be the way you are. Maybe can bring more or less attention from the fans. I hope I will be able to have success in my career. I think with this I going to have many people and a lot of guys watching my games, my matches. Doesn't matter what I play.

GUSTAVO KUERTEN: At least one. They don't have any. I think we should have something. It's much easy, the guy who lives here, they can play -- maybe they travel two times away from their country. All year along I'm away from my country. That's the only bad thing to be Brazilian. The rest is everything good.