DAVIS CUP - AUSTRIA Vs. USA

February 8, 2004

Jurgen Melzer

JURGEN MELZER: Of course. It was bad luck that the rest of the team is injured so I had to play because I am playing a tournament next week and I wanted to relax. I enjoyed playing out there. It was great fun with the crowd and playing Roddick first time is not what you can do everyday. Well, I did my best out there. It wasn't enough. His serve is huge, it is unbelievable. I didn't expect it being that fast almost killing like the crowd up there in the 10th row. But no, it was fun.

JURGEN MELZER: Well, if they play Argentina away then it is going to be tough, I think, that -- I think that's the worst draw they can get. I don't know if they play them, when they play them. It is also -- if they play Sweden at home, Sweden has Bjorkman and he is always pumped up at Davis Cup. You never know with him. With this team, Andy and the Bryans, they are huge, they can win it.

JURGEN MELZER: I don't know the others. They seem very together. They are all close friends, even Marty Fish was here the whole week, so, I think they enjoy playing Davis Cup and if they compete like this, the whole thing, they can win it.

JURGEN MELZER: Well, I think everybody gets frustrated who plays Andy, if he serves like this. You just walk left and right. You guess first serve, so there's not much you can do about it, and well, you hit some. Even if it's like a dead rubber, like this he's more relaxed so he serves even bigger. So no, it was tough.

JURGEN MELZER: You go out and try to have fun. It's tough when he serves like this to have fun, but I did my best.

JURGEN MELZER: I don't want -- I want to see him like being in close calls getting against him even though it is a dead rubber. They were against me. If he says, okay, it's good, it's out, if I am on the court I want to win. If it is a bad decision, I say something.