Elena Dementieva Time Quotations

She was very aggressive from the first ball. She moved me around very well. I was playing kind of defensive all the time and that's what I don't like to do.

I don't think I can change anything in my game, ... I feel disappointed with this loss, but at the same time I know how well I can play. It wasn't my day (Thursday) and she was playing unbelievably well. It's more than two days before I'll play my first match in the U.S. Open so I'll be OK.

When you play a tiebreaker, you don't have time to think of anything. You have to go for your shots because one shot can make such a difference. That's the kind of shot that can break an opponent.

When you play a tiebreaker, you don't have time to think of anything, ... You have to go for your shots because one shot can make such a difference. That's the kind of shot that can break an opponent.

I've waited a long time for this moment, ... I've played three finals, but this is the first I've won.

It's been a long time I could finish the match like that in less than an hour. I was feeling very confident with every shot that I was making.

It's my third Fed Cup final but the first time that I have won so I am really happy,

I needed a change, ... There were mental and technical things that she could no longer help me with. We had a very good time together and she really helped with certain parts of my game, but it was finished.

I play her so many times. I remember my first time playing in New York in Madison Square Garden, first round. When I saw the draw, I was almost like crying. I said, 'Ma, I want to go home.

By taking like 12 minutes time out, I don't think it was a fair play, but she could do it, I mean, by the rules. And she did it,

I arrived from Tokyo on Monday evening and I'm glad I got to play in the morning today, because I really want to go to bed now, the time difference is really starting to hit me.