Today I felt like I stepped it up a little bit better and was more consistent. |
Today was the best match I've played since Wimbledon, |
Unfortunately the left ankle that I injured during the Australian Open will prevent me from competing in one of my favorite tournaments. |
Venus looks like she's playing really well, ... I don't even know what to say when they play each other. It must be so hard that it's pretty hard to predict who will win that match. But If Venus comes through that match, I think that she's looking pretty good up there. This could be just an extremely difficult match and (must be) emotional for her, or it might not be. I don't really know what goes into it for both of them. |
Watching her play a little bit the first few rounds, I thought Venus looked like she was playing well. |
We definitely are seeing more and more players coming through. A lot of the younger players are doing well. Now there are six or seven players who could take a Grand Slam. |
We get criticized for showing no personality, then we get penalized when we do. |
We had a few really close games in the beginning that I was able to come through. It seemed like as the match went on, she probably lost a little confidence, and I felt like I was playing better and better. |
We'll see. I think it's just one of those things where you shake your head about it in disbelief. |
Whenever you're out there playing a final, the best start you can get off to, it only helps you. I was able to get up that first break at 2-1 and then I played really, really well for a stretch of games. |
While we are getting more depth, if you go outside the Top 40 or 50, there's not tons and tons of girls that are really challenging the top players, ... There might be a few, but that's the way it goes. |
Yeah, it would be a good story line. But, you know, it's one match away, but a really far match away. |
You always want to get the match over with as fast as you can, ... But I've got to say, she did play some great shots. The last couple of games were really close. |
You feel so removed. It's in the same country, yet it seems like everyone here is concentrating on tennis. All you have to do is turn on CNN to see the horrors that are there. The worst natural disaster that's probably ever hit our country has hit us right now, and yet you feel so removed from it. |
You give yourself a chance to try to win because in tennis things can turn around so quickly. |