蠻俏皮的一篇
提到自己這場沒打出來 很悶
然後提到自己的plan B不管用
再提到要回去佛州接受高溫的懲罰XD
不過重點是我沒心情翻了:P
Q. There seemed to be an enormous amount of frustration out there for you
today?
SERENA WILLIAMS: Yeah, nothing worked today. Some days you just have days
like that.
Q. I feel like the Parisian crowd was not completely with you, but not
against you like they were four years ago. So that's got to be just a little
satisfaction compared to what we've seen four years ago?
SERENA WILLIAMS: No, I think they were definitely for Justine. But it doesn't
matter. That really doesn't bother me.
Q. Tenative starts to the two opening games. Can you explain that?
SERENA WILLIAMS: Pardon me?
Q. Tenative starts. You opened the first, second set with tenative starts,
led to you being broken. How impactful were those to your result?
SERENA WILLIAMS: No, I don't think it was tenative. I just think it was -- I
don't know what it was. I don't know. There's really no explanation for it.
Just bad starts more than anything.
Q. Just talk about your ground strokes. You were in the match at times, but
then it seemed like you were making a little bit of a push, forehands into
the net, and you were flying your backhands a little bit. What was going on
there?
SERENA WILLIAMS: I don't know. Just everything was going wrong. Usually, I
don't hit in the net, like I think I hit so many errors today. I hit in the
net a lot. And it was very frustrating. It was like -- even the first set, I
saw that she had won 30 points and I had won 29 on the stats, but it was
just, like, I didn't win the right ones. And I was just making all the errors
and just playing like a maniac.
Q. It was kind of a subdued tone to the whole match, you know, kind of an
almost slow, quiet feeling to it all. Was it the weight of the occasion? You
never seemed to pop with energy or anything?
SERENA WILLIAMS: Oh, I don't know. I mean, I can't answer that.
Q. Did you have any sense before you went on the court that things were just
a little off for you? Or you were not feeling good? What was your feeling in
practice or whenever?
SERENA WILLIAMS: Well, I don't think I had a great practice. My routine was
off. I'm very superstitious, and things weren't right, so...
That's not why I lost, though. I mean, I've got to get it in my mind that
I've got to stop being so superstitious. But, you know, nothing really went
right for me this morning, and it just continued on through the match.
Q. The Serena fire and growl just weren't there. Where were they?
SERENA WILLIAMS: No, I mean, Serena kept hitting balls in the net and Serena
kept making errors. And it wasn't that. It was just that I couldn't hit my
shots the way, you know, I was hitting them earlier or whatever.
Q. What are your routines, Serena, in practice?
SERENA WILLIAMS: You know, I mean, I'm just a little more just -- I was
hitting a little off in practice, as well, today. Well, I mean, for me, off.
I'm always trying to do everything perfect. And then I just wanted different
shots, and I just, you know, I just left my notebook in the locker room,
so...
Q. Do you think Justine took a look?
SERENA WILLIAMS: No, I mean, there's nothing in there that would help her,
so...
Q. Would you regard that this half of the draw is tougher?
SERENA WILLIAMS: Yeah, I think this half is always tougher. I'm always on the
tougher half. So I mean, I think, you know, we had some good players on this
half. We don't I don't really even know who is on the other half.
Q. How positive is it the way you and Justine left the court? I know you
didn't like what happened during the match, but the fact that you clearly
have this mutual respect and admiration now, how good is that for you,
personally, and also for the women's game?
SERENA WILLIAMS: Well, I have a respect for everyone that plays tennis. I'm a
very professional individual, and I leave everything on the court. And that's
all you can do. And I don't take too much of it off. You know, I leave
everything I have on the court. And that's just me and that's my attitude.
Q. Beginning of the second set, she hits that backhand return that bounces
off the top of the net; you lose the point. And then after the game, you
smash your racquet to the ground. At that point, did you realize, Things are
just not going my way today?
SERENA WILLIAMS: No, at that point I hadn't even realized how many errors I
was making. At that point -- I mean, I was still fighting. I mean, I was
fighting until the end. But I just, I don't think I've ever played so bad in
the quarterfinals of a Grand Slam. And it's not, you know, here I am always
saying I want to peak at the right times, but I didn't have any peaks today.
And I just -- I don't -- I've never played so hideous and horrendous, and all
those other words I can use to describe my play today.
Q. But you in Australia before you peaked at the end, the last two matches,
you had some real dicey matches when you weren't on your game, but you were
still able to kind of gut it out, find a way to win. Why didn't that happen
today?
SERENA WILLIAMS: I was -- I definitely think today was worse than anything
I've played in Australia, for sure. It gives no comparison. I don't know why.
I mean, there's just no comparison.
Q. Obviously, taking into account what you're saying, but can you address
Justine's game? I mean, how you felt she played? How much of how she played
was due to how you were playing, et cetera?
SERENA WILLIAMS: She played -- I think, all she had to do was show up. I
mean, she didn't -- I thought that she did well, but I've played against her
when she's played even better. I thought she played really well, though. She
had her little tactics, and, you know, but I thought she hit decent.
Q. How did it feel when you threw your racquet to the court and the crowd
kind of booed you?
SERENA WILLIAMS: Oh, it doesn't matter. I mean, I think -- I think it was
just more of a reaction. I always throw my racquet. I try not to, you know,
but my hands tend to get really slick, and it just tends to fall out of my
hand all the time, so...
Maybe they just weren't used to seeing that side of me.
Q. You said you felt there were kind of signs that things were going wrong on
practice this morning. Were there any other signs out of practice?
SERENA WILLIAMS: No, I just didn't have the practice that I generally would
have liked. And I just felt like I was just, you know, trying to recover.
I've always had bad practices, though, before a match. Very rarely, actually,
do I have a great practice. That wasn't anything abnormal, to be honest with
you.
Q. In the last couple of months, you spoke to the calendar year Grand Slam,
and you thought it was conceivable for yourself or another women's player.
Now that's off the board. Is it very disappointing for you?
SERENA WILLIAMS: Obviously, yeah. But I was here to win the French Open. I
wasn't here to think about a calendar Grand Slam. So, I mean, for me, it was
all about winning here in Paris, and, you know, just doing it again.
Q. In the fifth game of the second set, you're up 40-15, then five of the
next six points are unforced errors. When that's happening, I mean, you don't
play like that as you said.
SERENA WILLIAMS: I never play like that.
Q. Is it like you can't believe it, sort of?
SERENA WILLIAMS: Sometimes, yeah. Then sometimes you've got to just step back
and say, Okay, try this, try that, or try Plan B. But I think my Plan B was
to make errors(laughing), so, obviously, that never works.
Q. How much, if any, impact did the fact that the match was played on clay
have?
SERENA WILLIAMS: I don't think it had much impact, you know. I just think
that maybe it was slower. I don't know. For me, it's the same. Obviously,
it's different, but I don't mind the clay. I actually love it. I don't think
it made that much of a difference today.
Q. Can you tell us what you'll be doing between now and Wimbledon?
SERENA WILLIAMS: Well, since I lost, unfortunately, I have to go back home to
the very, very hot conditions in Florida. So this is a punishment for me to
train. If I had won, then I would have been able to not endure the 200-degree
weather that it's going to be.
So I can't -- it's going to be horrible, so I can't -- that's what I'm going
to do, unfortunately.
Q. So when would you expect to arrive at Wimbledon?
SERENA WILLIAMS: I usually leave a week ahead of time, so...
I hate the heat there.
Q. It seemed like on a lot of the points that you got into rallies, she was
dictating a lot of the time. Did you feel that, and if so, why do you think
that was? Was she more aggressive than Miami? Was it that your shots weren't
going through the court as much? What do you think the reason was?
SERENA WILLIAMS: Yeah, I mean, I didn't take my opportunities, and I didn't,
you know, do anything that I was supposed to do, like move up and things like
that, and all of the other things I was supposed to do. I just pretty much
stood back and let her take advantage of me. And I feel violated.
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