THE LIPTON CHAMPIONSHIPS

March 19, 1995

Karsten Braasch

Q. Did you realize immediately that there was a chance to do it at the beginning of the match?

KARSTEN BRAASCH: I knew it even when even before I went out on court because I played him two years ago and there I thought I had a chance and I am playing better than I did two years ago, so I knew I have a good chance.

Q. Karsten, your mechanics are so much different from other players. Where did you learn the unusual mechanics of your service motion, for example?

KARSTEN BRAASCH: I don't know. It just developed. I don't think anybody told me to serve that way or anything like it. It is just normal development. I mean, I got taught tennis the way probably everybody got taught tennis and it is just normal development. I mean, Edberg is playing different from Becker, from Stich, from me, from anybody. You will never find two guys who serve the same.

Q. Well, definitely won't find another person that serves like you do. Have coaches tried to coach you out of that serve into a more traditional looking serve?

KARSTEN BRAASCH: No, because I was serving pretty well all the time and so nobody tried to change it. As long as it is working, there is no need to change.

Q. Stefan was in here a few moments ago described your game as "weird." Is that an insult or is that a compliment even?

KARSTEN BRAASCH: You got to ask Stefan that. I mean, for me it doesn't matter as long as I win.

Q. When you came into this tournament last year, your ranking had gone to in the '30s, I guess you were playing well?

KARSTEN BRAASCH: 47, 48 I was last year.

Q. What has happened in the last year that your ranking has gone down?

KARSTEN BRAASCH: Just couldn't defend the points I did beginning of last year and that is why my ranking dropped. I didn't play well. That is why you lose points; that is why your ranking is dropping; simple as that.

Q. Are these weather conditions made for your game, the slice, the spin, the short angles, the lobs?

KARSTEN BRAASCH: I don't know. I mean, I can play under every weather condition, so it doesn't make a difference to me whether it is raining or snowing or sunshine out there.

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