S. WILLIAMS/M. Bartoli
6-3, 6-4
THE MODERATOR: Questions, please.
Q. Just in general how did you feel you played, and what
was the difficulty? She served real well when she needed to.
MARION BARTOLI: That's typically Serena. I think from the
baseline I was fine. I was hitting the ball pretty well. I think
my game from the baseline was really good. On serve I almost
just couldn't return it. I mean, when it's coming 125 miles or
something, I don't even see the ball coming up. I can't see if
it's middle or wide serve. It's coming so fast. So in general I
mean, even at 30-All at 5-4 in the second set she served two
aces. That's it, it's finished. When you play against somebody
who serves like this, it's really hard to win the match.
Q. Did you feel she was mixing the serve well?
MARION BARTOLI: Yeah, I mean, she's a great server. She can
do every one: She can do the T, she can do the body, she can
do the wide, she can do the key, she can do everything. So
obviously you have to wait for your time. You know, the thing
is I break her in the first set and I was not able to hold my serve
twice because I was beginning the wind and I have the sun right
in front of me, so it was very tough for me it serve out on this
side. Overall my performance I think I'm very happy.
Q. How did her form seem to you? How in shape?
MARION BARTOLI: Well, I think, you know, with Serena she just
elevates her game when she needs to. She's not obviously trying
to play the hardest on every point. She just wait for the great
moment, and then go for it and play some great shots when she
really need to. She start maybe a little slowly, but then afterwards
I think the level of game from 3-All or something in the first set
was really good until the end of match. So she seemed overall in
great shape, yes.
Q. Sort of looking ahead, can she win this?
MARION BARTOLI: It's a long road. She's in the quarterfinal. There
is three more match to win. Of course, I think the women is going
to be on the top half will win the tournament. That's my guess.
But maybe also because the top half is so tough maybe she will
get tired in the final. I don't know. But obviously for me the one
that goes out in the top half will win the tournament, yes. But she
have to beat Justine in the next match and then maybe Venus,
her sister or Jankovic or Ivanovic. Three tough match coming up.
Definitely this year she can win this tournament.
Q. Can you compare trying to return Venus' serve on grass to
Serena's serve on this surface? The similarities and the differences?
MARION BARTOLI: This is different. I mean, the one with Venus
it's coming really higher because she is taller maybe, and on
grass the rebound it's not the same. But on both surface they
are very efficient, I mean, yeah, both of them.
Q. When you're not playing Serena or Venus, do you like watching
them, the level of excitement and energy they bring to their matches?
MARION BARTOLI: Yeah, well, you know, I like the entertainment
of course. And when they play some tough matches against some
top players like maybe Justine or Maria the electricity and the
battle going on, yeah, it's really exciting to watch. But maybe
when they play against a lower opponent and they win like 6-1,
6-0, no it's not exciting to watch. But the tough matches, the
Miami final for example against Justine. She was down match
point and she come back and she win it. Yes, it's a great match
to see.
Q. Was there anything you felt you could do well against her
today coming into the match?
MARION BARTOLI: Well, you know, I never -- I mean, I play her
four years ago, which is not even counting. So I didn't know the
way she was playing. You don't know the way an opponent is
playing until you play against her because you don't know how
hard the ball is coming and how she moves. You know, it's
difficult to say. So when I was going on court I was focusing
first into my game and try to play the way I was playing the
match before and see how she was reacting. You know, I think
when I was serving and when I was playing from the baseline I
was really at the same level as her. What makes the difference
is her serve. I cannot serve like her. I try to serve the hardest
when I was 40-Love up and it doesn't go higher than 106 and
hers is 125. You cannot compare it. That's it.
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