Q.  Do you think this will set back your game at all?
 
GORAN IVANISEVIC: I hope not.  I mean, I'll hopefully try to solve this injury and then try to continue.
 
Q.  Goran, have you ever experienced anything like this before?
 
 GORAN IVANISEVIC: Never.  It's really tough.  I mean, I never had luck that somebody retires me now first round, second round, never, but this is just -- I mean, one of the biggest tournaments and just great day to play, and just I was not able.  It's really -- I don't know, maybe it's all this six, seven weeks, I'm just traveling, playing final every week and my body is tired and small problem and just my body couldn't take it any more.
 
Q.  Do you think maybe they should have told the crowd,obviously they had no idea and they were chanting for Pete?
 
GORAN IVANISEVIC: I felt bad, they didn't have any idea what was happening.  It's like they think it is my fault. I had nothing to do.  I would love to still be there another couple of hours and play, but I think they are going to understand and they are going to have now a nice match now between Andre and Jim.
 
Q.  Is it painful for you to turn your head and shoulders to hit the back?
 
GORAN IVANISEVIC: Yes, backhand especially because  I can't turn it this way, the backhand -

Q.  Was it painful to run?
 
GORAN IVANISEVIC: Not so much.  Not so much, on the forehand side it was okay.  Backhand side, I have to go like this and then it hurts.
 
Q.  What do you feel right now?
 
GORAN IVANISEVIC: No, when I keep straight, I don't feel anything.
 
 
Q.  When you turn, is it shooting pain or just sore?
 
GORAN IVANISEVIC: It is very sore.  It's very -- it's like every time it is blocking me when I go on this side, so -- I mean, I can hang there for one hour and walk left, right, hit  some forehands, maybe ace, but I couldn't do that.  It's just -- it is a big tournament.  It is a final.  It was hurting me too bad, hurting me inside and the neck, too, just to go out there and not try.
 
Q.  So, you look up a few times, were you thinking the rain was going to come?
 
 GORAN IVANISEVIC: Yes, I said, okay, maybe you hang and the rain will come, maybe one day delay, you know, but you can't do that.  I mean, I couldn't stand there and just hope  the rain is going to come and pray.  If it had to happen today,  it happens.  I couldn't do anything.
 
 Q.  What time did you get up this morning, Goran?
 
GORAN IVANISEVIC: I woke up at 9:20.
 
Q.  Is that when you first noticed the neck?
 
GORAN IVANISEVIC: No, everything -- actually I woke upat 7:00, 8:00.  I was moving left, right in the bed, so I didn't feel anything.
 
Q.It was okay then?
 
GORAN IVANISEVIC: 9:20 I woke up.  I talked to my coach like I said, I didn't feel any problem.  I stand up, I went to the living room and I just couldn't move my neck, my head, it was blocked.
 
Q.  So, it wasn't just as you got up from bed, but later after you'd been up for a while?
 
GORAN IVANISEVIC: Yeah -- I mean, just after five seconds, you know, I probably was during the night, I did something, probably I was so tense sleeping and my body is tired and that's it.
 
Q.  Were you nervous when you went to bed last night?
 
GORAN IVANISEVIC: No, why should I be nervous, it is  not a final?  I play enough finals this year and in my life.
 
Q.  You said you were tense, though?
 
GORAN IVANISEVIC: Not tense, I think -- I always tense, but I think my body was a little tired from all this traveling and this hard court is a little tough on your body. It's just bad luck and nothing else.
 
Q.  Did the doctor give you any indication how long this will stay with you, that you might not be able to play?
 
GORAN IVANISEVIC: No, he didn't say anything.
 
Q.  Do you have to wear a brace on your neck?
 
GORAN IVANISEVIC: I'll do whatever I have to to be better.  I mean, as soon as possible.
 
Q.  What are you going to do to treat it now?
 
GORAN IVANISEVIC: No, I'm going home tomorrow.  I'm  supposed to play Davis Cup Friday, I don't know if that's going to happen and then I don't know, I am going to probably go there with my team and have a treatment there.  If I cannot play, I just -- we have a doctor there and will just have
 treatment.
 
Q.  What was next on your schedule after Davis Cup?
 
GORAN IVANISEVIC: Barcelona, Monte Carlo and all thisc lay stuff.
 
Q.  Did the doctor give any reason why this might have happened?
 
GORAN IVANISEVIC: It's blocked.  It's really tense there and, I don't know, you have to better ask him, you know, it's not so many reasons, you just probably I pinched something or something there and they cannot get it released before the match.  Maybe it's going to be better in one day, five hours,
who knows, but at this moment.
 
Q.  All the whistling and booing, do you feel as a professional tennis player, let's leave Ivanisevic out of this that when a case such as this course, that the people who have  paid very good money, $14,000 of them should be informed when the match doesn't start on time, Mr. Ivanisevic and he is goin  to try to play, that might have spared you and everybody a lot of inconvenience?
 
GORAN IVANISEVIC: Possible, but I think that's a question you have to ask the organizers.
 
Q.  I wonder how you as a player feel about that?
 
GORAN IVANISEVIC: I think as a player, maybe toprotect me a little bit, but, whatever, whatever happened,  happened.  I know they were not happy.  It is a big final, big day, nice crowd.  I was really -- when I came in, I felt like I can play, but then I made couple of movements and I saw -- I realized that I couldn't play.
 
Q.  Did that raise your frustration at all, that all the booing was going on?
 
GORAN IVANISEVIC: It's not nice, not frustration, I just felt bad.  I mean, I didn't do anything bad there, just  tried my best there, came on the court, tried three games and then they booing me like it's my fault that -- like I didn't want to play.
 
Q.  After that third game instead of sitting down you went  over to the trainers on the sideline, what was the conversation   like between you?
 
GORAN IVANISEVIC: I said I should stop and I couldn't  -- they said maybe you are trying more, maybe it is going to   rain, I said okay, I try, but -- and then I just played three  more points and I realized it doesn't help anybody.
 
Q.  When Cliff Buchholz came out to talk to you, what did he say to you?
            
GORAN IVANISEVIC: When?
 
Q.  Didn't -- did Cliff Buchholz come out to talk to you on the sidelines after you went back on court to play?
 
GORAN IVANISEVIC: No, no, that was supervisor.
 
Q.  That was Mark Darby.
Q.  Before you said you thought you could play when you started warming out, what did you find out during the warmup?
 
 GORAN IVANISEVIC: I found out I cannot play because I walked in, you know, you see all this full 14,000 people, you   know, get into that, you think now maybe it is going to stop.  Then I hit couple of balls, especially my backhand, I said my  serve is not going to be good.

Q.  What were your thoughts when you saw your first came  in at, I think, 80 miles an hour, this isn't me?
 
 GORAN IVANISEVIC: I saw that this morning, this isn't   me when I started to practice, I couldn't move, I just was trying my best with the serve, whatever.
          
Q.  What did Andre say to you when you shook hands with  him then?

GORAN IVANISEVIC: He said good try, bad luck, he can't   say anything.  Just bad luck.
 
Q.  Did you talk at all about that today?
 
GORAN IVANISEVIC: No.
 
GREG SHARKO: Anything else for Goran?  All right, well, thanks everyone