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Q. Anna, are you glad it's over?
A. Yeah, definitely. I got my suntan. You know, my nose is burned but, I
think, yeah, it was a good fight, and I'm glad it's over.
Q. Do you like these kind of matches?
A. Well, I like any matches as long as I win them.
Q. Anna, at times it seemed you dug holes for yourself and
then enjoyed climbing out of them. Is that the way you see it, or - -
A. Well, no, not really. I think I would be, you know, more happy if I
would win easier of course. I mean happier, you know, physical way and
every way. But I'm very pleased that I fought. I was fighting a lot, and
I think that she, Miho played unbelievably. She played really
well, and I didn't expect that from her, and you know, I had to get used
to it, and I came through.
Q. I suppose - did you expect to make 31 double faults in the match?
A. Well, I think that has been happening for a while, so I am kind of
used to that. But I'm really frustrated with it, just like I think
everybody who is watching. You know, in practice I feel fine; I serve
normal, and there's no sign of double faults, which is - it's just
when I come to the line, when I play, there's something happening, so
I'm just going to have to get over it and, you know, try to fight
through, just like I did today and, you know, today was already feeling
better than the day before, so it's getting better.
Q. Have you resigned yourself to it happening for the rest of this
tournament?
A. Excuse me?
Q. Have you resigned to it happening for the rest of this tournament?
A. Look, I - you mean I got used to it?
Q. Yes, and working around it?
A. Yeah, I'm trying to, because if I get upset, you know, it's going to
be even worse. So I'm just trying to, you know, not be frustrated, and
not to focus on it too much, and just to work through it.
Q. What do you say to yourself when you are out there doing that? Can
you laugh at it almost?
A. Yes, like I said, if I get upset I don't think it's going to get
better. So I just try to, you know, go through it, and, just, because,
like I said, in practice I serve fine, and I practice and I'm happy with
my serve, and then just something happens.
Q. What do you think happens? Is it tight, do you get tired, or what
happens?
A. Well, it has been bothering since, you know, end of last year, and to
tell the truth I don't know.
Q. Anna, why did you change your racquet after you hit an Ace?
A. Because I broke a string.
Q. Have you ever talked to a sports psychologist about this or - - -
A. No, I don't - why should I?
Q. If it's part mental more than mechanical?
A. No, I didn't think about that.
Q. Was there ever a period in your - do you feel free on court?
A. Free to - - -
Q. To play well?
A. Yes, I think that I should be even more relaxed. When I relax I play
much better. Of course I get tightsometimes just like any other players,
you know, important points, and - but I noticed that you know when I
relax I just go for it, I play much better.
Q. Anna, does your arm freeze up when you are going into your service
motion? Is your right arm freezing, getting stiff?
A. Freezing - well, I hope it will be unfreezing soon. Defrosting.
Q. What I mean is, stiff, so you don't feel like you can relax?
A. No, no, no, it's not that at all. It's just - I don't know. Help me.
Q. Are you very nervous when you are tossing the ball?
A. No. No, I have no more answers for that.
Q. Was there ever a period in your junior career when you experienced
anything like this?
A. No, like I said, never happened to me before, never. I never serve
more than 4 double faults in a match before.
Q. What does Martina Hingis say to you about this? She played doubles
with you. Did she give you any tips about anything to change?
A. Well, we were not talking about separate shots, we were talking the
whole game and, like I said before, I think that the serve is just like
a separate shot, just like missing a forehand.
Q. But did she give you any advice about your serve? You do it also in
doubles, or just in singles?
A. Do what?
Q. The double faults.
A. No.
Q. Because it could be psychological?
A. Can we talk about something nice?
Q. You must have been happy with crowd today?
A. Happy - what?
Q. Did you like the way some of the crowd dressed up for you today?
A. Well - dressed up?
Q. Yes, wearing dresses and plaits and - - -
A. Oh, I didn't see that. Do you have a replay?
Q. But they were certainly well behind you though, weren'tthey?
A. Yes. Well, I'm really grateful and really happy that they were behind
me, and I think that they, you know, enjoyed the good match, hopefully.
Q. It's not distracting at all, Anna?
A. Well, it can be, but I tried to say, you know, not to worry about it
and just to focus, and this is - I just try to say that's the way it
should be, because if I'll be saying, "Oh my God", you know, I'll be
more nervous.
Q. Anna, 5-0 in the final set and then 5-All, when did it happen last
time to you?
A. Never.
Q. How is your leg? Can we touch on that?
A. I was getting cramps a little bit in my legs again, and just like she
was, I think. So we were both very relaxed and very, not saying a lot
afterwards in the locker room.
Q. There was nothing more than that, Anna, no injury?
A. No.
Q. You looked like you were holding your hip at one time. It was just
cramps?
A. Yeah, it was just cramp. No, I have no injury, that's been the whole
problem. I feel great physically and I just hope my serve will come back
and I start playing well.
Q. What has Pavel Slozil told you after the match, apart from
congratulating you?
A. Well, like I said, we've been working really hard, about, you know,
my serve, and in practise it goes fine but in the match it's only me who
is making the mistake, which, I have to try - he has been helping me,
you know, and of course he is saying all the right things. I just have
to put them into, you know, I have to do them.
Q. Do you feel a lot more pressure in your return games as, you know,
now you have to win quite many of them to stay in there?
A. No, I feel perfectly free in the return games.
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