MOSCOW -- Martina Navratilova plans to slow down -- just not yet.

For now, there's plenty of work, starting with next week's Fed Cup semifinals in Moscow, a possible tuneup for the 2004 Olympics.

Navratilova and doubles partner Lisa Raymond will play Fed Cup Nov. 19-20 against Belgium for U.S. team captain Billie Jean King. The winner faces France or Russia in the finals on Nov. 22-23.

Belgium will be without the top two players in the world -- Justine Henin-Hardenne and Kim Clijsters and will use Els Callens, Caroline Maes, Elke Clijsters and Kirsten Flipkins. "On paper, we're huge favorites,'' Navratilova said.

Navratilova, 47, said she would do "whatever helps to make the team better,'' from "fetching water'' to playing singles if one of the other players -- Raymond, Meghann Shaughnessy or Alexandra Stevenson -- is injured.

"They wouldn't want to be calling Billie Jean into duty for singles,'' she joked, "I'm certainly available, but not planning on doing that.''

After Fed Cup, Navratilova would like to play at Athens with Raymond. "I'd say our chances are very good because we should be the top doubles team,'' she said.

Navratilova retired in 1994, then returned in 2000, playing mostly doubles. She said she had serious doubts about playing this year, but that the possibility of playing in the Olympics for the first time "sort of pushed me over the edge.''

She said if she and Raymond remain healthy, "we'll be playing together all next year.''

Navratilova said she is training less intensely but more regularly than she did in her 20s and 30s. "It has to be more frequent more frequent; when you get older, you can't just take a week off and then just pick up where you left off -- you have to really keep at it.''

She is not thrilled with the surface these matches will be played on, calling the carpet "very sticky'' and making it difficult to slide into a shot. "I'm just playing doubles, it's fine, I can adjust to that, but for a singles player I would have my reservations about playing on that surface.''