Amélie Mauresmo Quotes
It took me time to adjust and to realise it was not going to happen like it did in the juniors.
Yeah, you can still learn a couple things here and there. You can still see a few things that you haven`t really focused on in the past.
You have to adjust to where you are but the French are all together - the guys and the women. It`s good.
Whether it`s in the right way or sometimes the wrong way, you learn about life and its lessons.
The thing is the game is getting tougher and tougher and we have to ask a lot of our bodies.
I think I have handled things pretty well last year and this. What I have to do now is try do it even better.
When you start off a new tournament, you want to do well.
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.
Right now I have more confidence in myself. I grew up.
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 wasn`t the case. I struggled.
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.
I definitely wanted this win today and I don`t want anybody to talk about my nerves anymore.
Unlike in my young days I`m not able to eat, drink and sleep tennis.
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.
This trophy is so special in the world of tennis and it feels great.
