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| Maria Sharapova's Roland Garros Quarter Final Interview |
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| June 02, 2009 |
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You looked very tired, but you fight until the last ball. Can you explain what you feel, how you feel now. |
| Maria Sharapova |
Um, it took me a while, obviously, to start going for my shots and create, you know, good opportunities to come to the netand finish the point off, you know, closer to the court.
Yeah, it just -- you know, I guess you could only ask your body to do so much. You know, everything fell a little short today. The pace wasn't there on my strokes, and, you know, I was five steps slower today.
I think everything kind of combines. The fact that, you know, she just played really solid and made me hit a lot of balls, and I came up short today. |
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The game today, it looked as if the score didn't reflect the game. It didn't look as if it should be such a difference in the score within the game. What happened? It's as if you lost most of the crucial points. |
| Maria Sharapova |
Yeah, definitely. I don't know, second game of the match, 15-40,I missed two returns in a row. I mean, that's just, you know, stupid. You give your opponent so much confidence.
And many games after that it was 30-All. Yeah, obviously when you lose a few of those in a row, your opponent all of a sudden gains momentumand gains confidence, and then it's pretty difficult to get those opportunities back again.
So you've got to take advantage of them when you have the opportunities. |
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| Maria Sharapova's Roland Garros 4 th Round Interview |
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| May 31, 2009 |
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From the beginning of the week, you have played six and a half hour. Is it okay for you physically, and for yourshoulder? |
| Maria Sharapova |
Yeah, I think it's a lot better than playing six and a half and going somewhere else tomorrow. I think I'm giving myself another chance to, you know, play again and play another match. That's the only thing I could ask for right now. |
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Did you have the time to give a look to the draw? I mean, because you have a good chance. You seem to have a good draw. I know you look one opponent at a time, butstill... |
| Maria Sharapova |
So why do you ask me the question? (laughter.) |
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| Maria Sharapova's Roland Garros 3 rd Round Interview |
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| May 29th, 2009 |
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From the beginning of the week, you have played six and a half hour. Is it okay for you physically, and for yourshoulder? |
| Maria Sharapova |
Yeah, I think it's a lot better than playing six and a half and going somewhere else tomorrow. I think I'm giving myself another chance to, you know, play again and play another match. That's the only thing I could ask for right now. |
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Did you have the time to give a look to the draw? I mean, because you have a good chance. You seem to have a good draw. I know you look one opponent at a time, butstill... |
| Maria Sharapova |
So why do you ask me the question? (laughter.) |
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| Maria Sharapova's Roland Garros 1st Round Interview |
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| May 25th, 2009 |
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How encouraged were you by your performance today? |
| Maria Sharapova |
Yeah, I started pretty lousy. You know, even though I was up a break, I was just not doing the right things and, you know, letting her play really well. She got a lot of balls back. She made me hit a lot of balls. I was just a little sloppy.
But I totally changed it around, and I started playing a lot better and more aggressive. The match kind of changed after the first few games of the second set. |
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Must be a different feeling this year than last year when you were stillthe No. 1. Can you express your feelings? Where is your level now? |
| Maria Sharapova |
Yeah, it's a very different -- very different time in my career, as well, because I've only played a couple of tournaments since I played here last, actually two, only.
So, you know, I feel like I don't have as many matches under my belt as I had coming into this tournament last year, where, you know, I was No. 1. You know, I won a few titles, I was playing really good tennis. This year it's obviously different after having a long layoff.
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| Olympic Spotlight on.Maria Sharapova |
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| July 19th, 2008 |
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How excited are you about the Olympics? |
| Maria Sharapova |
I'm very excited. It's every young boy's and girl's dream to participate in the Olympics. To actually know that it's coming up in a few months is very exciting and I'm very looking forward to being a part of it. |
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You've talked about when you were growing up, you imagined being at the Olympics. |
| Maria Sharapova |
I did. It was one of the things that my parents allowed me to watch on TV late. One of those was the opening ceremony. I remember being up at one in the morning because I'd have to wait until Russia would come up. Obviously, that's a later letter in the alphabet. So it was very exciting. |
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