LINDSAY DAVENPORT
LINDSAY DAVENPORT: No. I mean, I would have never guessed that in a million
years before the match, if someone had told me that. But,
you know, it's obviously a good win, and I felt like I
played well and handled the conditions really well. She
didn't play well.
Not much really to say.
Q. Did you keep waiting for her to come back, come up with something?
LINDSAY DAVENPORT: Yeah. I mean, it's almost a tough position -- I mean, it's
not tough. I mean, you'd rather be up. But to be up 6-0, 2-0,
or 6-0, 3-0, because you feel like, okay, if she does get on
the board, she might loosen up and might get on a roll. So
you're always trying to keep her down no matter what the
score is.
I was still really intense and really concentrated even
while I was up because I didn't want to see her get on one
of those rolls again.
Q. What's going through your mind at 6-0, 5-0?
LINDSAY DAVENPORT: Uhm, just to try and win it there. I mean, like I said, I
think she can be a very streaky player where if she does
start to play well, obviously I didn't want to let her back
in the match. But it was kind of a weird sensation. I mean,
it was an odd position to be in, to win a match against such
a good player and not have lost a game.
Definitely a lot of thoughts going through my mind.
Q. Have you ever double bageled a top player?
LINDSAY DAVENPORT: You know, I haven't double bageled many people in my whole
career. So definitely not at this level.
Q. Was there any strategic change in how you approached this match or did her
strokes just kind of break down under pressure? You played the forehand a lot.
LINDSAY DAVENPORT: You know, I really felt like after I started off well, I was
trying to just go with my game and not really worrying about
how to play her so much. I felt like I didn't worry about
what she was going to do. I was trying to worry about my own
shots. At the same time as I was hitting well, I was still
getting a lot of errors.
I didn't have to go too far into the strategy. If I'm
playing well, I try not to worry about what the other players
are doing or what their strengths are.
Q. Were you in the zone in your mind today?
LINDSAY DAVENPORT: I was trying to be. I was trying to not worry about the
score and not worry about what was happening and just trying
to worry about each game at a time. Like I said, I felt a
threat of not letting her get on that roll. I was just
trying to stay as concentrated as I could with the score.
Q. At this stage in your career do you have to make statements to yourself,
meaning you come in here, you lost to her twice, she's pushing No. 1, do you
go out there and say, "I need to win this match"?
LINDSAY DAVENPORT: No, I don't take that philosophy. But I definitely didn't
want to go down 0-3 against someone that's very close to me
in the rankings. Didn't feel quite the urgency of that, but
wanted to play well, wanted to do well here in Indian Wells -
forget who I was playing.
But certainly didn't want to be going 0-3.
Q. Do you view her as the biggest threat to your No. 1 ranking?
LINDSAY DAVENPORT: I view Serena and her. I think we're all very close. I think
it's going to switch hands here in a matter of time. You
know, I don't think Maria did all that well until Wimbledon.
She probably has a lot of room to make up points. I did
pretty well. I think Serena obviously, with a Slam under her
belt, getting more and more confident. I think the three of
us have kind of established ourselves as slightly ahead of
the rest of the pack, although Mauresmo is still playing
well.
I think either one of those two can definitely overtake me
with points. I don't know when, but...
Q. I think you said on air you felt Kim was the best mover or the fastest
player in the game. Do you think she's faster than Serena, Justine?
LINDSAY DAVENPORT: I think she's the fast -- I think she's a great retriever.
I think she manages to get balls back. As far as who would
win a sprint, I don't know. But she manages to get to the
ball and just get it in, and that's tough to do. I think she
plays aggressive and she moves well. I haven't seen her play
all that much obviously in over a year. Saw her play a
little bit today.
She always gave me a lot of problems the last few times we
played. I think she beat me the last few times. She was
No. 1 and playing well. It's great to see her back. I think
that she gives me trouble. She gets a lot of balls back and
is always making me play two or three extra shots. I'm going
to have to be really for that tomorrow and try to execute as
best I can.
Q. As Clint Eastwood might say, you're now a $20 million baby. What does
reaching that plateau mean in terms of your consistency?
LINDSAY DAVENPORT: Yeah, I think that's a big accomplishment. I mean, I never
try and gauge anything on how much money is earned at a
certain tournament. But that's obviously a huge
accomplishment. Not many players have been able to do that.
Obviously it gets easier the last few years as prize money
has gone up.
But, you know, I've managed to always have pretty successful
years the last 12 or 13 years. Yeah, I don't think of it in
those terms, but I remember my coach had said that to me a
few months ago. He was trying to give that to me as a goal.
Guess I have to get a new one now.
It's great. I mean, I wish, like I said the other day, I
wish all of it was in my bank account. It's been great. I
could never imagine something like that.
Q. How does a top player regroup after such a disappointing performance?
LINDSAY DAVENPORT: Yeah, I think, you know, in tennis we're very lucky. Maria
has a tournament, she can play another match in probably
less than a week, time to go back out on the court and get
rid of that and move forward. So in that regard we're very
lucky.
And the next time she'll play a top player, I'm sure she'll
try and do something a little bit differently. You know,
it's a learning process. It happens to every player at some
point in their career. I'm sure she'll bounce back fine.
Q. Is it important for you to show Kim that you're a better player now
than you were in 2003 in the summer when she was beating you pretty good?
LINDSAY DAVENPORT: Well, I feel like that. I mean, even before I went on there,
my coach was telling me, "No matter what's happened, you're
playing way better now than the last two times you played
Maria." I'm sure he'll say the same thing about the last
time I played Kim.
But I feel like I'm playing better. But I feel like she's a
great player. I'm going to have to keep my level high. I
feel like I've improved some things since the last time we
played. But, you know, she was always -- she always knew
that summer kind of what to do to break me down. I'm going
to have to be strong from the beginning and try and move
better than I did a year and a half ago, last time I played
her, you know, be forceful with my shots.
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