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THE MODERATOR: Questions for Martina, please.MARTINA HINGIS : Thank God there's not many people here anymore.
Q. Were you surprised to see her playing that well ?
MARTINA HINGIS : Well, I think it's not only that she played well, but I didn't play good. I think I let her play well, and then she just, yeah, opened up, lost the fear, and played exceptional. I mean, we know that she can play and beat some good players every now and then.
Q. Do you have an explanation for the reason why you were not playing so well tonight ?
MARTINA HINGIS : Well, I think after yesterday I didn't have much more to give. I was a little flat and tired mentally. Just I don't know. Just wasn't feeling well. Wasn't my day. I don't know. You know, in the beginning, I started out well the first service game. That's not unusual. After that, uhm, maybe sometimes you think like the opponent is gonna hand it to you, but she didn't. I think the difference is now that I'm back in the top 10. I'm the player people have seen me around, and they have nothing to lose anymore compared to when I started the year.
Q. Where do you take your comeback from here ? This is your earliest exit ever at the US Open. What's next ?
MARTINA HINGIS : Well, I mean, uhm, that's a good question. I mean, I can't answer that right now to you. I mean, we'll see.
Q. Are you going to try to qualify for the season ending championships ?
MARTINA HINGIS : Oh, yeah, that's the ultimate goal, but I think I have to think over some things and, you know, just, uhm, get through the next weeks and then get ready for indoors.
Q. Obviously, you didn't want to play back to back days, but were you at least pleased to see that you were going to play on Arthur Ashe Stadium tonight in front of a big crowd ?
MARTINA HINGIS : Oh, yeah. I mean, I wish I had played a better match here in front of a stadium like that. Maybe it would have been better I played some Court 10 or something (laughing).
Q. When you came back from 5 1 to 5 4 in the second set, you could believe that it was getting
MARTINA HINGIS : I mean, still not easy to finish off matches against top players. I mean, yeah. I mean, I've struggled with that when I came back now. I mean, I had some opportunities against Amélie and didn't make it. You know, you sometimes believe you know, doubt yourself. Can you really make it and close it ? She served well the last game. I mean, I still had some openings, opportunity, but I should have, you know, done that a lot sooner than, you know, at 5 1 being down.
Q. And is it the most disappointing loss of the year for you so far ?
MARTINA HINGIS : Uhm, in a way, yes, and no because, I mean, since Wimbledon I have not had the results maybe I would have thought I would. Well, I don't know. Yeah, maybe Wimbledon was more disappointing because that was the first time I lost to a lower ranked player. I hope I'm not getting used to this habit, yep.
Q. After the first set of your match yesterday you said that you changed your strategy up a bit. You came to net a little bit more. Did you try to do anything tonight after dropping the first set ?
MARTINA HINGIS : Well, I tried to come in but, I mean, you still have to, you know, be aggressive but still keep the ball within the lines, still be in control. You know, sometimes today I tried it, and I had some good points, but she wouldn't let me. Yesterday, I was able to dig in deep, and today, you know, she had a better answer. I mean, we have to say definitely she played a great match, yeah.
Q. But this was a match you felt like you should have won ?
MARTINA HINGIS : Well, I mean I don't know what she's ranked. A lot of you probably know.
Q. 100, but she had an injury. She had a stress fracture in the beginning of the year, and then again after the French Open. So she started to play without any pain in August. Now she can play her best game.
MARTINA HINGIS : Yeah, well, I mean, she's I've played a lot of tennis lately in the last couple months, a lot of hard courts. Even like I don't think I've had a day off since, so I think now I will have some days off which I didn't want to have.
Q. When you retired, you obviously had an injury, but you realized you couldn't compete power wise with a lot of the players. When you came back, you said that your mind would separate you from the other players. Did your thinking out there let you down tonight ?
MARTINA HINGIS : Yeah, I tried a couple dropshots early on and they both were like, yeah... I can't explain. I mean, that kind of set me back. I'm like, Okay, I definitely have to try to do something different. I mean, this is not working today. It worked yesterday against Shuai Peng. Sometimes like I feel like I'm hitting a lob and she still didn't get there. But today against Virginie I couldn't allow myself to have any because of the or leave her any openings. She was very solid from both sides. There wasn't much I could do sometimes.
Q. Would you reevaluate this comeback. I know in the beginning of this press conference
MARTINA HINGIS : This is probably not the best day to ask. I mean, you can't just be down on yourself all the way because you lose a match here at the US Open. So, you know, I mean, you know, I have my people around me, my support system, so we just definitely have to step back and see how it's you know, what we'll do in the next days, next weeks, next months.
Q. Did you ever think when you came back in January that you would be in the top 10 by the US Open ?
MARTINA HINGIS : I was hoping for it, but if it's going to happen, I didn't know. I'm definitely happy after that was a huge match for me, playing Kuznetsova, making in the quarters in Montreal. After that, you know, still winning the semis where I don't think I was at the best after that night, but still winning somehow. I went back home and, yeah, I don't know. It's just too much tennis. I mean, there's not much I can explain right now. I mean, it's just I wasn't as fresh mentally as I normally go into Grand Slams. It was a tough match yesterday, and coming out there today again and playing Virginie, she's not going to hand it to me, and she didn't.
Q. Between Wimbledon and Montreal, what did you do ?
MARTINA HINGIS : I played one match, yeah. I played San Diego and I had a week off. I played Montreal, week off, and here.
Q. When you walked off the court at the 2002 US Open after you lost to Monica Seles, did you have any idea at the time the next time you would be here would be nearly four years later ?
MARTINA HINGIS : No, I mean, you don't think that far ahead what's going to happen. Definitely not like it's gonna take three years or what will happen, you know. I still somehow that year I had tough three setters also getting to the fourth round and playing Monica. At that time it was disappointing to lose to her because I haven't lost to her in, you know, a few matches. I don't know. The surface is quite fast. I mean, it's like in the beginning of the year, the Rebound Ace is a little slower. On clay you have more time. I feel right now if you don't serve well, don't return well, if you're not aggressive enough, I mean, you can't just do it with a passive game. I mean, you definitely have to change something on that.
Q. Do you feel lucky to be here ? Monica Seles, she's trying to come back, but it probably won't happen. Do you feel fortunate
MARTINA HINGIS : Well, she's 32 years old. I'm 25, so it's a little bit of difference. 26 next month, so... I don't want to really compare myself with her yet.
Q. How would you rate the year, the comeback year ?
MARTINA HINGIS : Well, it's not over yet, so you ask me at the end of the year.
Supplément : Question posée lors de l'interview d'Anna Chakvetadze
THE MODERATOR: Questions, please.Q. In the second set Martina ran off three straight games. Was there any point you were nervous ?
VIRGINIE RAZZANO : I think I sleep a little bit. I say this because, you know, I am very relaxed for two sets. Sometimes when you are very relax, sometimes you relax in your mental. And if you relax in your mental, you don't you lost little bit aggressivity in your game and your legs for to move good. I say, Oh, wake up because now is 5 4; is not 5 1. She come back; she play good. You little bit down because you lost your aggressivity little bit, and you must to push little bit more for to finish this match.
Q. How does it feel to pull off the biggest upset so far ?
VIRGINIE RAZZANO : I think it's because I play very good today. I play my match. I very I have a good lucidity, lucid. In English ? I am very lucid in my match. I know what I must to do against Martina for to win against her, because I know the game of her because. I play her maybe three or four years ago, and she beat me two times in two sets, but very difficult games, not 6 Love, 6 2. It was 6 4 or 7 5, 6 3, something like that, something of this. And I say if I want to win against her I don't must to wait the fault of her because she don't did fault. She has a good regularity in the game of Martina, and if you want to have points for you, you must go not on the net. But if you can go on the net, you go finish on the net. Or you push your balls very fast on the line or across, but not go cross, cross, cross because she's best of this game, cross, cross. And me, I must to go not long points. If I wait for long points, she win. If I go my game in four, five shot, I can win.
Q. How would you rate her to what she was before, I guess four years ago when you played her ?
VIRGINIE RAZZANO : I play not too much aggressive, and I wait more. Stay on my line... THE MODERATOR: Her (translating in French).
VIRGINIE RAZZANO : I think she has the same games. She come back very good, I think so. She has a good physical and good shots because, you know, is difficult to play against her because she don't do the fault every time. She put the ball in, in, and it's come back every times. Four years ago it was the same. She go moving right and left and she go to take every time the balls for come back, and you don't finish. If you don't push fast, so when you can go with the good balls, because you can't go fast, "I go fast and we see," if you have the balls for to go, you go and you cry.
Q. Where would you consider this win in your career ? Is this one of the biggest wins you've had ? Would you consider this one of the biggest wins you've had ?
VIRGINIE RAZZANO : For this year, yes (laughing). For this year, yes, because, you know, I come back injury. It was very long for me. I have a big pain in my wrist, right hand, in my wrist. My hand. Is not my wrist, is my hand. I have so many problem with this for to come back and to play. Now, I come back just from Los Angeles, LA, and Montreal and here. I have only three tournaments because before I can't play. I must to stop. I feel better. Why my ranking go down, because last year I play very good, every weeks regularity a lot. And when I play a girl when the ranking it's down of me last year, I win and I have a good regularity. But this year, I can't play a lot tournaments because I have injury from February to three weeks ago. It's six months maybe not play a lot, and it's normal when you don't play a lot this year and play a lot last year and play good last year you lost your points and you come back far.
Q. Martina had said that you played like you had no fear of her. Did you fear Martina ?
VIRGINIE RAZZANO : Yes, she say good, yeah (laughing). Yes, when I go on the court, you know, I don't have a friend/afraid( ?) of the players because I think is good to for us, for me, myself, to go and play the games and to have lucidity, concentration, and you know what to do. You know what to do on the court, and you do. And you see after what's happen. If you do win the games, it's good. Is good for me. But after, you see. And she say maybe a good thing because when I play a big players, I am not afraid. I prefer (smiling). Is good challenge for me.
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