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THE MODERATOR: First question, please.
Q. How do you feel? You get the No. 1 spot and you get to a US Open
final.
JUAN CARLOS FERRERO: I feel so excited. I'm really happy for both
things. You know, is the first time I am in the final on the US Open.
I am playing a great tennis on hard courts. I couldn't play this kind
of tennis this years, you know, in 2000, 2001 and 2002, I couldn't
play so well here. Finally, I think I'm doing like I want.
To be at No. 1, you know, it's a special day for me. I knew before
the match that if I win the match I will be a No. 1. So I'm really,
really happy.
Q. When you won that point after the between-the-leg shot and then
the cross-court winner at the net, you stood in the stadium and you
lifted your arms up. What was it like for that moment to be cheered
by the crowd here?
JUAN CARLOS FERRERO: You know, I did this because, you know, it's a
special shot. You know, is the second time in the tournament that I
do this shot and, you know, it's pretty difficult. After this shot,
he does the volley and I win also the point.
It was a special point that I had to do this, you know.
Q. Did you feel, though, appreciated by the crowd which had been
rooting for him? Did you feel, by their applause, they were finally
appreciating you?
JUAN CARLOS FERRERO: I feel the applause to Agassi all the time. But,
you know, I think was normal today because everybody -- and also
because he was losing all the time.
But I think the people also, you know, is great for me, with me. I
know is the first time I played in center court and beat Agassi, it's
normal the people doesn't like a lot of, you know...
But I think is normal.
Q. What was the turning point for you in the match?
JUAN CARLOS FERRERO: What?
Q. What was the turning point for you in your match today?
JUAN CARLOS FERRERO: I think, you know, when I was 3-2 on breakpoint
for me in the third set and I lose this game, and also the set, it was
a difficult moment for me. Because I was playing so good in the third
set. You know, I thought if I win this game 3-2, and I did a break
4-2 on my serve. Was down to the match for me.
Finally, I could win in the fourth playing the same level as the whole
match.
Q. Obviously, people who follow tennis closely know who you are. Why
do you think it is that the general public, at least around here,
might not know as much about you as they might a No. 1? You're the
No. 1 player in the world now.
JUAN CARLOS FERRERO: I think they didn't know me so much because I
didn't play so good here in the US Open. America is pretty big. If
you don't play pretty good here, the people don't know you.
But this time I think the people is gonna know me very good. I win
Agassi; he's very popular here. I'm in the final beating Hewitt,
Agassi and Todd Martin - you know, one of the guys that are playing
so good in hard court, and especially in hard court.
So I think right now it's my time.
Q. Did you feel like you had something to prove coming in, you know,
what we're talking about here, that people maybe underestimated you,
also that you could play on hard court? You're always just considered
a clay courter. Did you want to show you could on hard court?
JUAN CARLOS FERRERO: I think I show it before. It's not only this
time that I am playing good in hard courts, you know. I think last
year in Shanghai I played pretty good in hard court. This time I am
playing pretty good in hard court. Also Australia I did quarterfinals,
you know.
So is not the first time that I am playing good on hard court. So I
think I don't have to -- I don't have to show to everybody that I can
play good also on hard court.
Q. Were you a little bit tired at the end of the third?
JUAN CARLOS FERRERO: Yes, a little bit. You know, I think is normal
because I played eight sets in two days, and four more today.
So I feel, you know, a little bit tired, but I think I'm gonna be
okay for tomorrow because I have a lot of hours to improve.
Q. Do you remember, when you were a kid, when you first thought about
being No. 1? I'm sure as a child you dreamt about.
JUAN CARLOS FERRERO: No, not really. No (smiling).
Q. It wasn't a goal?
JUAN CARLOS FERRERO: Yeah, was a goal, of course. Because all the year
I was pretty close to No. 1, 2, 3, 4 all the time. Pretty much after
winning French Open, I was pretty close to be No. 1. Also in Wimbledon,
you know. Also in the tournaments like Kitzbuhel, you know, Montreal,
Cincinnati. I couldn't be the No. 1. Finally, was my time here.
Q. Andre said that if it is Andy Roddick tomorrow and he is serving
well, it is going to be very difficult for you to beat him because
his serve is such a weapon. Do you look at it that way, that you're
going to be behind?
JUAN CARLOS FERRERO: I know that if he serves so good, it's pretty
difficult to break him. But also Verkerk in the tournament of French
Open, he was serving like 200, 210, 220 all the time. I did the
breaks on the final.
So if he wins, because we have to see, I don't know... Who knows?
But if he serve very good, it's not easy to break. But we'll see.
Q. In a lot of ways you beat Andre in his own game today - using a
big serve to set up your power baseline game. Was that your game
plan going in, counterpunch him shot for shot?
JUAN CARLOS FERRERO: Yeah. I was focus my game on the serve, you know.
I knew that I have to serve so good. Base of the line, you know, I was
playing so well. I return very well as well.
So I think I did the perfect match.
Q. After losing the third set, did you have any feeling at all that
maybe it was slipping away a little bit? How did you get yourself
back?
JUAN CARLOS FERRERO: You know, I felt the pression because I knew if
he win the fourth set -- I still had to win two sets, the third and
the fourth. I was thinking that he was gonna be so strong in the
fifth. Also the crowd start to support him much than before, you
know. I knew that I have to try to win in fourth, and I did it well.
Q. Is there anything you've done this year to really step up your hard
court game? Have you played more, practiced more on hard courts?
Changed your strategy?
JUAN CARLOS FERRERO: No, I did the same. I did the same as last years,
you know. But, you know, I know that when I am playing good, I can
play the same level on clay court and on hard courts. I think right
now I am showing to everybody.
Q. You hit so many winners. Are you in the zone right now? Do you
feel like you can hit a winner from anywhere?
JUAN CARLOS FERRERO: Yeah, maybe (smiling). You know, no, I am playing
good. I am with a lot of confidence. I can do every shot.
Q. Some of the foreign players had complained a little bit during the
last week that the American players were getting favored, poor treatment,
scheduling, all that. Does it factor in you are playing an American?
After the last week we had, was that part of the motivation for you to
beat an American at the US Open?
JUAN CARLOS FERRERO: Is strange that today is my first match on the
center court. This is strange for me.
But I know that the American guys go first than me here in this
tournament. But the only thing that I want to say, that if this
tournament wins a lot of money with us, with the players, you know,
and they have to do some more people to dry the courts, you know.
All the courts at the same time , not first the center court, 45
minutes later the Louis Armstrong or whatever, Grandstand, whatever.
Doesn't matter. They have to have more people to dry the courts
faster - not faster, at the same time.
Because if not, it's happen like the other day. Agassi won in three
sets to Dent, and I did only one set, only for the dry courts. So
this is not right, I think.
(This is a partial transcript)
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