Amelie Mauresmo Quotations

She played a good match and she made it tough in the second set,

She is playing really well at the moment. She played well at the Australian Open as well. It won't be an easy match for sure. I am looking forward to the match.

She is one of the two or three players who hits the ball the hardest. She played really well. She hit very hard on both sides, and very long. I couldn't hit deep enough for her to be annoyed, so all credit to her.

My legs were not really moving very well. And then she played a good first set.

Obviously, just putting the ball in and taking the opportunities when I would have them was probably going to be the key. I didn't think, though, that it was going to be this kind of score or this kind of a match. Yeah, I mean, she made way too many errors...She's tall and she's already very powerful for 16. Maybe sometimes not so coordinated, but this is probably going to come.

On my side, it was a little up and down, ... When someone doesn't let you get too much rhythm, it's tough to really get into a match. I think I played a little up and down, but overall I'm pretty happy to be going to the semifinals again.

I felt pretty good on the court out there today, ... I really felt my game, right from the beginning, was consistent and I didn't let her really get into her rhythm and finish the points pretty quickly, as she loves to do.

I feel like I am being penalized because she was injured. It is a strange feeling and one I don't really understand but something I have to deal with. This is just the way it is. But I would like the WTA to show some consistency.

I feel like I am being penalized because she was injured, ... It is a strange feeling and one I don't really understand but something I have to deal with. This is just the way it is. But I would like the WTA to show some consistency.

I feel good, I was able to make sure that my game was there this week, ... Physically, I am strong enough. I showed that today after my long match yesterday (Friday).

It is important to recover well because I feel very tired at the moment with the accumulation of matches and it is having an impact on my game.

I think these girls coming up, it's normal, it's great and it's good for the tennis, ... They probably still have to learn a few things but, you know, she's only 16 and she's going to improve a lot and make her way.

Overall, I'm very happy with the way I played. I served big and was consistent except at the end where I got maybe a little bit too eager to finish her off.

You just have to move well, be ready, be aggressive yourself, not let her do what she likes to do, which is dictating the game, which is very tough. That's all I can tell you.

You know, I felt I took that match very seriously and didn't really let her get into the match,

We have a very strong squad and I'm convinced I'm not the only one able to win a singles. We have won many ties despite injury worries.

Right now I have more confidence in myself. I grew up.

Whether it's in the right way or sometimes the wrong way, you learn about life and its lessons.

We all had, at some point, matches we should have won and we didn't and that's the game. That's just the way the sport is. Otherwise, if everything was written before, we don't need to play.

When I finished the juniors I felt, perhaps for about a year and a half, that everything was going to be the same and that I would be able to go out there and win any match. But it wasnt the case. I struggled.

I think I have handled things pretty well last year and this. What I have to do now is try do it even better.

The day I stop feeling the pressure and I'm just enjoying myself and taking it easy is when I'm 35, asking for a wild card and playing mixed doubles with Arnaud Clement.

My coach told me I had to expect, you know, some long rallies and stuff. So, you know, I was ready for this.

Another factor is the education and culture in which you grow up. I didn't grow up in the culture of victory, where you are expected to be or have to be, the best. It was not at all like that in my family. Tennis was really a hobby. If it led to something, great. If not, there were other things in life. I think that was something I was missing at some points in my career, because when I see Hingis or the Williamses, you see how they were educated for this: to win, to be the best, a bit the American mentality. Number one. Number one. Number one. I didn't have this.

The more kilos you have to move around, the more it weighs on your knees. Then of course in terms of stamina, the way you move around, it's a little extra. It might not be much, but when you exercise with two, three extra kilos, you can feel a difference; it's important.

You have to adjust to where you are but the French are all together - the guys and the women. It's good.

I definitely wanted this win today and I don't want anybody to talk about my nerves anymore.

When you start off a new tournament, you want to do well.

Unlike in my young days I'm not able to eat, drink and sleep tennis.

I think you always have, you know, new players. Every year you see new faces, juniors coming into the seniors. I was one of them at the time long time ago now.

All the people that still believed in me, after seven years - it's a long time.

Well, I guess I needed this tough first round to really put me into that tournament, to really erase what happened at Indian Wells, which is now the case, you know.

This trophy is so special in the world of tennis and it feels great.

I have been amongst the best players in the world for 8 years. None at that level played as many ties as I did.

It took me time to adjust and to realise it was not going to happen like it did in the juniors.

There were many occasions in my career where I could have given up, where I asked myself whether I would ever make it.

Yes, I have had difficult times on court and at certain tournaments but you need to forget about it and go forward because that's the way it works in our world.

If you are not physically strong, it's difficult. But at the same time, I think you need something more than that; you need to vary your shots, as Justine has been able to do in Amelia or Charleston, where she beat her -- I can't remember where it was on clay. So you need this kind of thing. But of course if you're not fit, you'll never make it through.

You hear it anyway, ... And I guess for a sensitive person, it goes to you at some point, when you are still hearing the same things. But the best answer I can give is on the court and that is what we both did today because Mary, also got some tough moments on her side and people not really believing her being able to come back at that level. This is the best answer we can give to anybody.

Dont try to look where theres no point looking,

I started with not putting enough first serves in and that gave her some opportunities on the second serve to step in and really play hard. I'm not very happy about that,

It would be great (to end 2004 at number one), ... Hopefully, I can make it this week even though I know it will be very tough. She's been playing well also. I'm looking forward to the next match every day.

I've played a lot in the last couple of weeks and I sometimes lack a bit of sharpness. Between matches I do nothing but rest.

It was very tough to walk on the court without really knowing your opponent.

That's what I wanted today, from the first point really making her play as much as I could, I did that very well at the beginning and felt my game was very effective.

It's two months now since we finished The Championships. I guess it's tough to keep the momentum going when you have such a long period between these two big events without having competition.

It's great to be in the semi-finals in Doha.

The thing is the game is getting tougher and tougher and we have to ask a lot of our bodies.

I really felt like I dominated from start to finish.

I played a very consistent match. On key moments I felt like I controlled the match. I think that the physical aspect of the game played a big par.

I played at a good level, while preventing her from developing her game.

The first set was not so easy for me ... I made way too many unforced errors and really took one set to adjust to the conditions and to the game.

The first set was a bit long. Once I settled into the match, I was under no pressure in the second set. I played my normal game and won easily.