5 October 2010
E. VESNINA/M. Sharapova
7 6, 6 2
THE INTERPRETER: Questions, please。
Q. It's turning out to be a bad end of the season for you, isn't it?
MARIA SHARAPOVA: Yeah, I'm definitely not as good as I wanted to
be. But, you know, I didn't really have a great preparation coming
into these last couple tournaments. You know, after the Open I wasn't
really able to I didn't train as much as I wanted to, and I feel
like the last couple of weeks I have just been trying to play catchup。
Going on the court hasn't my rhythm hasn't been where it should
be. So obviously it's disappointing, but I've lost and won many
matches in my career. You know, you just have to regroup and find a
way to, you know, to improve things and get better and look forward to
a new season。
Q. What is your schedule for the rest of the season?
MARIA SHARAPOVA: I'm not sure, actually. I think I'm scheduled to play Moscow, but I don't know. We'll see。
Q. (Through translation。) This should be your first completed
season after the injury. Before the start of the season, have you had
any plan about the ranking position or any special goal?
MARIA SHARAPOVA: I'm not really at a point in my career where I
focus so much about numbers, and I actually never really have been
throughout even the juniors and working my way up to a professional
level. I just my goal was always just to try to beat my next
opponent, whoever that was。
The more wins you have, obviously the better your ranking is going
to be. I mean, there's no secret to that. That's always my goal。
Q. Is there one thing you can pinpoint about today's match?
Watching you, it just looked like you were constantly a little bit
behind her and had to keep catching up. Was there one thing that let
you down, or was it just you said your preparation was a little bit
lacking. Is it an overall thing?
MARIA SHARAPOVA: I have to give a lot of credit to my opponent,
because I think she played extremely well, the best that she's played
against me。
She was really aggressive, she hit the ball really deep today and
really consistently, as well. That kind of kept me on the defense, and
I was never really able to step in and do things that I do well and
never really was able to cut off the angles。
She served extremely well and really had me off balance and took
advantage of the first balls, you know, and it was definitely her day。
Q. I noticed you struggled with your serve a little bit, dropping
a couple of critical double faults. I was wondering if that was a lack
of opportunity to train, or was something else playing into that?
MARIA SHARAPOVA: Yeah, a little bit, and I think it was just
errors just all around the game and it just kind of added up. You
know, I was giving her way too many looks on second serves, and, you
know, she was hitting away。
That put a little bit more thought into my mind that I had to go
for a little bit more than I actually had to, and that creates errors.
Yeah, so it was just a combination of, you know, errors all around the
game。
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