Mary Pierce - Day 6賽後訪問
Welcome back Mary! Relax and have fun :)
Q. That was pretty hard, watching it from the stands.
What was it like playing three sets out there?
MARY PIERCE: Hot weather?
Q. Hard.
MARY PIERCE: I thought you said "hot." Sorry.
Yeah. Yeah, it was a battle, definitely. Lisa served
really well. She is a tough opponent on grass, and,
you know, I just feel I think the difference for me
was in the beginning, wasn't really feeling quite settled in
yet. The important points, I wasn't winning those.
Missing shots by very little, if any.
You know, I think the second and the third set, I just
tried to stay calm and little more relaxed and have fun
instead of taking it too serious and putting pressure on
myself and really wanting to win so badly and doing
so well.
So I just tried to, you know, take that pressure off
myself, say, "Mary, just have fun, relax, enjoy the
match and try to do your best, but don't worry about
winning or losing."
I think that made a big difference and I started to
play much better.
Q. Your reaction at the end, when you looked at your
coach, I couldn't tell whether you couldn't quite believe
what you'd done or you were really happy. Was there
a bit of both? You looked shocked?
MARY PIERCE: I look shocked?
Q. Yeah.
MARY PIERCE: No, I was just happy, relieved.
Yeah, I think it's a match, for me, that really meant
a lot. It was very special in a sense that I just fought
really hard and played with my heart and, you know
?? because I still feel that, you know, my game is
there, I'm playing well. But, you know, I'm still not
back to the level of where I want to be.
So it's more difficult to go out there and play matches
not being in that level where I want to be. So all I
really do is just use my mind a lot more.
And just be mentally tough and fight.
Q. Are you suggesting that you've almost sort of
overachieved in your own mind to get this far at
Wimbledon this year?
MARY PIERCE: Maybe. I don't know. I mean, I
wasn't sure if I was going to come here or not.
After Roland Garros, you know, I took some
time off to think about things. Started working
with Sven and went to Amsterdam, had a lot of
discussions, practices, and kind of just took things
day by day, really, and decided to come here and
play without any expectations, using this as part of
the process of me getting back to the level that I
want to be at, and, you know, just taking things
match by match really.
Q. What is it that you need to build on? Clearly,
you can play and win important tennis matches.
You said after your previous round that it might
be six months before you get to that level. What
is it that you need to add to your game now?
MARY PIERCE: What I need to add to my game?
Q. You said it would be six months before you're
at the level that you want to be at.
MARY PIERCE: Yeah, well, I mean, I think the
first thing that's pretty obvious is physically I'm
not in the shape that I've been in my career. That's
pretty much the biggest thing.
I didn't realise how far off I was or how bad things
got, really, when I took all that time off with my
injury. It was really like starting from zero. I didn't
think it was going to take such a long time to get back.
But actually I've accepted the fact that it does take
time, and so I've accepted that. I've accepted to be
patient. I've accepted to put the hard work in because
I know what I want and I believe in myself and, you
know, that's the only way to do it.
Q. Is there a special training regimen you're on at the
moment or is it general fitness work?
MARY PIERCE: Well, there's not really any secrets.
Just hard work and good nutrition and good rest and,
you know, things that I've done before.
Q. I saw you sharing a light moment with Brad Gilbert
on the practice courts. I know you worked with him
for a few months. Can you just talk about what he was
like as a coach? And when you were saying you were
just going to go out there and have fun, you were thinking
to yourself the second set on or whatever, it sounded like
something Brad would tell somebody to, you know, not
think of the results, just go out and be in the moment,
enjoy yourself.
MARY PIERCE: I had a lot of fun working with him.
He was very funny. He's very entertaining.
Q. What did you learn from him? Is there one thing
you took away from the experience?
MARY PIERCE: I think what Brad’s really good at,
among other things, he was a great player and he still can
hit the ball really well, he plays very well. I think he was
very smart and intelligent with the way he played the
game. You know, I never used to think when I played,
just hit the ball really hard. So he tried to get me to use
my brain a little more.
Q. When you were having all those discussions about
whether to come here, how to proceed, what were the pros
and cons you were weighing?
MARY PIERCE: The pros and cons...
Well, basically, after the French Open, I did not want to go
and play another tournament the way that I played that one,
and I didn't feel like I was ready to go play a tournament. I
thought if I went and played, I would have done the same
thing, which was not an option for me.
You know, and then just ? you know, things just happened
really quickly while we were training. I just started to feel
every day better, and hitting the ball better. You know, also
with the ranking system that we have, the way the points
come off after every tournament, you know. I only have I
think like 14 tournaments, and I think they take best of 17
or 18. Every tournament I play is kind of a bonus. It didn't
really matter what I did here, if I lost first round or quarters
or won the tournament. It helps.
I had some points coming off because I did decent last year.
It was really a win?win situation if I came. No matter what I
did, it would help my ranking; it would get some match
practice and help get me in shape.
Q. Considering the bad taste you had from France, was it
scary to say, "I'm going to commit, I'm going to do it"?
MARY PIERCE: No, I mean, once I made the decision,
I didn't think like that at all.
Q. What was the low point for you in terms of your off
time and can you talk a little bit more about your back
problems? Was there a period where you weren't able to
pick up a racquet at all?
MARY PIERCE: Seven months long.
Q. And what was it like mentally? What was the low
point or physically how much did it hurt?
MARY PIERCE: Oh, physically it hurt when I walked,
you know. I had pain in my hip and everything. I couldn't do
a lot of things. I watched a lot of TV, read, was on the
computer, played with my dogs, hung out with my friends.
So, you know...
Q. Was it just rest?
MARY PIERCE: Yeah, in the beginning just rest. It needed
to heal. Not even any kind of rehab or anything like that, any
exercises. So it was long. You know, seven months is a long
time. I didn't really realize how long it was. Sometimes they
say it takes double that time, however long you're out, to get back.
So, you know, I've just accepted that I'm going to be patient
and do whatever it takes.
Q. Was it your back or your hip?
MARY PIERCE: It was my back.
Q. Did you enjoy that time? The pain aside, did you enjoy having
that sort of down time? Was there anything positive to take from that?
MARY PIERCE: Well, you know, everything always happens
for a reason, I say. I definitely would have preferred being
healthy and being out there playing, but I didn't have the choice.
So I, you know, basically made the best with what I had and the
situation that I was dealt with, and I just took it day by day.
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