Q.  I know you just finished the match and it's hard to describe.  Just kind
of talk about from 5-1 in the second set breaker on, what kind of happened there?

            SERENA WILLIAMS:  Well, I just started making a lot of errors.  I
mean, the whole match, I just didn't play at all the way I have been
practicing.

            So, yeah, I just made -- I don't know how many errors I ended up
making, but I haven't been playing like that in the past.

Q.  Do you want to talk about the last game?  You climbed back to 5-3. I think
five or six breaks I ended up making, but I haven't break-point opportunities.
Couldn't get over the hump?

            SERENA WILLIAMS:  Yeah, I tried.  I kept going for my shots which
always works for me.

            It didn't work out today, but, um, yeah, I just wasn't -- I made
so many errors today which isn't the game that I've been playing in the past.
 You know, that's it.  That's life.

 Q.  Can I just ask you about the breaker again?  Were there nerves?  There
was that one ball you decided to challenge.  I think it was around 5-3 that
you could easily have hit back on the lob.  Talk about that.

            SERENA WILLIAMS:  Yeah, I definitely was nervous.  I'm always a
little nervous in every match I play, which I think is a little bit healthy.

            So, yeah, I mean, I think it's normal.  I was definitely a little
nervous.

            But, yeah, there's no excuse maybe.  I thought it was out, and
then it wasn't.  So...

 Q.  Did you sort of feel the match slipping away?  Could you talk about that?

            SERENA WILLIAMS:  Um, yeah, no, I never really feel anything
slipping away or anything.  I just -- I just felt I couldn't get a ball in
play.  You know, when I did -- I just felt like I was hitting late and, I
mean, how can you hit late on a clay court?  It was kind of odd.

            So, yeah.

Q.  What was going on in your head in that incredible last game?  What were
some of your thoughts?

            SERENA WILLIAMS:  Well, I thought, you know, just staying, get it
back to deuce.  Then I thought, whatever you do, don't get it back to deuce
at one point, couple times.

            But that didn't work.  I just was thinking, okay, if I could
break here, then we'll be back on serve.  You know, those are the kind of
things that are going through your head.

Q.  Did you -- right at the end of the tiebreaker you grabbed your back a
couple times.  Did you pull anything?  Did you feel anything abnormal?

            SERENA WILLIAMS:  No, no, no, I didn't feel anything abnormal.  I
was 100% healthy.

Q.  I would like to know if you knew about Virginie's story, about her
husband who she has lost last year.  She's a very special player for us in
France.  Did you know her story and what do you think of what she did today?

            SERENA WILLIAMS:  (Smiling.)

            That's a bit of an intricate question.  I -- yeah, I know of her
story and her husband.  We all have stories.  I mean, I almost died and Venus
is struggling herself.  So, you know, it's life.  You know, it just depends
on how you deal with it.  She obviously is dealing with it really well.

            Everybody, like Mardy Fish, he's even having trouble.  Everybody
has something that they're dealing with.  You've just got to deal with it.

Q.  What about her performance today on the court?

            SERENA WILLIAMS:  I think she can give you a better idea than I
can.  (Smiling.)

Q.  At the end of the second set you went very emotional before the start of
the serve.  What was going through your mind after losing this?  Was it
anger, frustration?

            SERENA WILLIAMS:  No, I just think, you know, always think, okay,
let's just try to get a good start to this third set.  You know, the match
isn't over yet.  So that's kind of what I was trying to do.

 Q.  Everyone has his own nightmares.  I'd like to know if Eva Asderaki is
one of your nightmares.

            SERENA WILLIAMS:  If what?

 Q.  Eva Asderaki, the umpire, because you met her other times.

            SERENA WILLIAMS:  Oh.

 Q.  When see her, is it a nightmare?

            SERENA WILLIAMS:  Well, you know, she's not a favorite amongst
the tour, but, you know, I was like -- I don't know.  Was she the one that
did my US Open last match last year?

 Q.  Yes.

            SERENA WILLIAMS:  I just really had a flashback there.
 (Laughter.)

            Interference, replay the point, and I said, (demonstrating with
hands up).  Same thing what happened to me in New York.  I mean, hello, you
know.  She didn't give me that opportunity, though.  She was just like,
Interference, point penalty.

            So I don't know.

 Q.  I'm still sort of processing this.  We have seen you come into some big
tournaments where you're coming off injuries or you haven't had a lot of
matches, but how are you going to process this and sort of move on?  It's got
to be pretty disappointing.

            SERENA WILLIAMS:  Yeah, it is disappointing.  But it's life.
 Things could be a lot worse.  I haven't had the easiest past six months.
 Nothing I can't deal with.

 Q.  Similar question.  You had such good clay court season.  You've just
come off a really tough loss.  Can you try and put it in perspective in terms
of your hopes for Roland Garros and the clay season?

            SERENA WILLIAMS:  Yeah.  I have to put it in perspective.  My
Roland Garros so happens to be over.

            So, you know, I'm in mixed doubles, so hopefully I can do better,
win a match in that event.

            So, yeah.  Did I answer your question?

 Q.  Sort of.  So you still have high hopes for the rest of the summer, I
presume?

            SERENA WILLIAMS:  Well, yeah.  I've just got to, you know, go
back and -- it's the same thing.  You know, just figure out what I did wrong
and not do it again, you know, learn from it.  I think that's the best thing
I can do.

 Q.  With what he said, maybe five, six, seven years ago, maybe a few years
ago you would take losses a lot tougher mood-wise?  You seem to have a lot
more perspective.  Talk about that and why.

            SERENA WILLIAMS:  Yeah.  You know, I've been through so much in
my life, and -- yeah.  I'm not here -- I'm not happy, by no means.  I just
always think things can be worse.