DUBAI DUTY FREE TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS

February 21, 2014

Serena Williams

DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

A. CORNET/S. Williams
6-4, 6-4

THE MODERATOR:  Questions, please.

Q.  She didn't do much wrong, did she, tonight?
SERENA WILLIAMS:  Ah...  I'm a wee bit embarrassed.  (Laughter.)
Um, she played really well.  I just, you know, I didn't play today.  I tried,
though.  I just kept hitting errors.  I don't think I have made that many
errors in a match in I think at least three years, maybe four years.

Q.  Why does that sort of happen?  Occasionally  these things happen when you
don't have a great match.
SERENA WILLIAMS:  Why?  I mean, it happens.  You know, I have been playing
really, really solid for a long time.  Today just wasn't my day.
You know, she played a solid match.  She knew someone was going to hit balls
in the stands and just didn't get the ball in play, kind of.  I think she did
that really well.
Yeah, I just-- it wasn't my day today.

Q.  Was there any part of you --I know you're a professional, but maybe you
were thinking ahead to Venus and the final?
SERENA WILLIAMS:  No, I don't think ahead too much in general.  I usually
just --I'm used to staying in the moment, and I'm used to doing that.  I
don't think I had so much.

Q.  How about the back?  I saw a number of serves you seemed to not just get
up.  Was that not happening or was something hurting a little bit?
SERENA WILLIAMS:  Absolutely nothing was hurting me.  I mean, I just don't
know why I didn't get up.  I tried.  I just don't think...

Q.  Just not your day?
SERENA WILLIAMS:  Yeah.  I think I just, out of a 10, I was at like a -283,
so...   Wow.

Q.  Like you said, bad days just happen.  When you have a day like this, do
you wake up in the morning feeling something is off, or did you step on the
court feeling well and it just surprised you?
SERENA WILLIAMS:  I haven't felt good this whole week, to be honest, just
from my first match.  I felt I played good yesterday.  I had to play well.
 If I'd have played like that today, I probably would have been --I don't
know if I would have won, because I think Alize, she played really well, but
I definitely think the scoreline would have been a little better.
I started out extremely slow.  I have been actually looking at a turtle every
day.  I think it's so cute.  Maybe I was too influenced about by it.  It's a
really cute turtle in the hotel.
I need to be able to play better than that if I want to be playing on this
tour, on the professional tour.  Maybe I can go to amateurs.

Q.  So you go back and give Venus the book on Alize now?
SERENA WILLIAMS:  Yeah.  I mean, I'm sure she watched the match.  I'm sure
she knows how to play her.  She's played her a few times.  I will obviously
tell her what to do, but she'll be fine.

Q.  (Indiscernible.)
SERENA WILLIAMS:  Excuse me?  I don't understand your question.

Q.  This is Dubai finish.  What next for you?
SERENA WILLIAMS:  Oh, I think I'm going to play Miami next.  It's a
tournament.

Q.  Where do you stand on Fed Cup?  I know Venus said she thinks she might
play a tournament.  But she'd like to play.  Do you have any idea where
you're at?
SERENA WILLIAMS:  I don't know.  It depends on the week.  It's such a
difficult week.  I would love to play.

Q.  It's the 19th.
SERENA WILLIAMS:  Yeah, so, you know, at this rate I might have to play
another tournament or something, so we'll see.  It just kind of all depends.

Q.  How about back in Delray?
SERENA WILLIAMS:  Yeah, I'm always voting for Delray, but yeah.

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