Clijsters第二輪賽後訪問
Q. How long do you think it will take for you to get questions about how it is
to play the tournaments without the Williams sisters?
KIM CLIJSTERS: Oh, you're not the first one to ask that.
Q. I'm not asking that. How long will it take before someone asks that question
?
KIM CLIJSTERS: It's been asked already.
Q. Are you pretty pleased today?
KIM CLIJSTERS: Yeah, I was, definitely. I think compared to my first match, I
felt like, you know, against Laura today I had to play better
than my first match. I definitely did that. I definitely stepped
my game up a little bit. You know, I was very happy with that,
the way I played today.
Q. Are you also concerned about gaining some national glory for Belgium?
KIM CLIJSTERS: Well, not when we're out on the court. Obviously not. I think
it's great to see whenever we play a lot of big matches how
people announce where we're from, where we live. I think that's
great, to see how sort of after ?? tennis?wise, after Dominique
Van Roost and Sabine Appelmans stopped playing, straightaway
we had two other girls in the Top 10. We kept the Belgian
tennis going.
I think, yeah, it's great what we can do for the name of our
country.
Q. Next up for you potentially dangerous opponent, Kuznetsova. Do you sense a
certain fearlessness on behalf of most of the Russian players because
they're coming out of a country where there is a lot of poverty and tennis
is a way out for them?
KIM CLIJSTERS: Definitely. I don't know if Svetlana trained in Russia. I think
she's been training in Spain for a long time. But, no, I
definitely think ?? also following my sister in the Juniors
circuit, there's so many Russians playing so well. I don't know
how many there are in the women's draw. I think there are about
13 or 14 Russians in the main draw. I think that's incredible.
That's definitely, you know, part of hard work. But also, like
you said, they maybe don't have the richest Federation and they
probably have to work really hard from a young age. I think
that's what pays off.
I think any sport is about that, working as hard as you can.
Q. Do you sense it's very difficult to intimidate a lot of these young
Russians?
KIM CLIJSTERS: I don't know. It's hard to say. The type of game they play, as
well, they all have similar styles of games. It's very hard to
get through those. They hardly miss a ball. They always hit with
the same amount of speed, almost every shot. That's why I think
it's amazing to see how all of those girls have made it a long
way, yeah.
Q. You had disappointments in all the other three Grand Slams this year. How
much of a motivation is that for you to really try to win?
KIM CLIJSTERS: Of course, any Grand Slam you always get motivated. By you
saying I was disappointed, I was disappointed losing those
matches, but I still made it to the semifinals and to the
finals. I always try to take the positive out of my losses. You
know, of course, when I lose a match, I'm disappointed. But,
you know, I'm not going to, you know, sit down and cry,
reflect on what happened. I want to go forward and get better
and work on what I didn't do well in that match.
That's what I've been doing. That's what you always have to do.
You have to always try to get better and try to stay motivated.
Q. When you get one of these young players who quite often will come out there
??
KIM CLIJSTERS: Russians?
Q. Anybody who's young, has "nothing to lose," will hit for the lines. How
difficult are those kind of players to play?
KIM CLIJSTERS: It's hard. You know, I was one of those a few years ago. You
know, for a young girl, I think it depends on your character,
as well. Some of the young girls can get intimidated by who's
standing in front of you, which court you're playing on. A lot
of the girls now, like Sharapova, Harkleroad, they're so driven.
I think women's tennis at the moment has a great moment ahead of
them, especially with Maria and stuff, yeah.
Q. Do you carry any intimidation factor for you for opposing players? Everyone
talks about how nice you are. We talked the other day about someone saying
you're not mean enough. Does carrying the No. 1 label take an intimidation
factor onto the court with you?
KIM CLIJSTERS: Maybe to my opponents, if it's in their head they're playing the
No. 1, maybe that's a little bit, like, intimidating. On the
other hand, that could even be also more motivating as well. I
think it depends, like I said before, on the character of your
opponent, of the girl that you're playing.
But, yeah, I don't know. For me personally it doesn't change
anything. It's not like I try to be more intimidating than
normal.
Q. The Fed Cup will be played in Moscow. What are you thoughts about that?
KIM CLIJSTERS: It's disappointing. You always like to play at home. I don't
know if it's that good of a choice from the ITF to have it in
Russia. You always have to look ahead a little bit. What
worries me, last time we played in Moscow, I think we played in
front of 100, 200 people. We played the Russian team, as well.
I sort of hope that Russia can get through to the final so they
have a bigger crowd. It will be very disappointing to see if the
home country doesn't get to the final. In Russia, I don't
know if that would be a great crowd if they wouldn't make it
through to the final.
I think in Belgium, tennis at the moment is so big. I think
even if Belgium wouldn't make it through to the final, I think
we would still get a great crowd. I think the Belgian crowd is
a lot more interested.
Q. Will you play?
KIM CLIJSTERS: It's too hard to think about. I don't want to worry about it at
the moment. It's definitely made it a lot tougher. It's tough,
especially with the week off in between. It makes it really
tough I think for a lot of players. I definitely think the ITF ??
I'm sure they'll definitely open their eyes. I don't think a lot
of the top players will be playing.
(This is a partial transcript),
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