00:00 Cheers.
00:04 It was nice.
00:08 Finally, a bit of relief.
00:11 Yeah.
00:13 Yeah, I'm speechless right now.
00:16 I don't know how to describe my emotions, but definitely I'm super, super happy and
00:22 proud of everything I was able to achieve so far.
00:25 And yeah, just happy with the level I played today and she's a great player and very tough
00:31 opponent and I'm super happy that I was able to get this win today.
00:34 Irina, I wanted to ask you about some of the clips we've seen backstage of you doing a
00:41 coordinated dance with your team and you warming up with balloons.
00:45 I just wondered how important is it for you to be enjoying the time between matches here?
00:52 Yeah, I think it's all about having fun and enjoy the process and we're always doing a
00:58 lot of crazy stuff with the team and I don't know, it's helped me to stay focused on court,
01:04 you know, like because it's enough pressure on the court and of the court we're just trying
01:09 to keep it simple, keep it fun and make sure that all of us enjoy the process.
01:17 Your on court and off court persona seem quite different.
01:22 How much do you have to spend a little bit of time becoming on court?
01:28 I remember Rafa used to talk about becoming a different player when he walked onto court.
01:31 Do you try to do the same sort of thing?
01:35 Well it's actually good that I'm two different people on and off the court because if I would
01:41 be the same person that I am on the court, off the court, I think I wouldn't have my
01:45 team around me and I think I would be alone.
01:50 But yeah, I mean it takes me so much time to kind of like become who I am right now
01:55 on court, to have this control on myself and to understand myself better and yeah, it's
02:01 been a long journey and way to go.
02:06 I just said it like I'm going to retire after today but no, too early I think.
02:13 I think I still can do something else.
02:17 But yeah, it takes me a little while to become who I am right now.
02:20 Just pointing it like that, I'm like where is Simon?
02:25 Remember I had a little drink already.
02:26 Was it important to you to win a second slam to show that it wasn't just a one off?
02:34 Yeah, actually it's been in my mind that I didn't want to be that player who win it
02:42 and then disappeared.
02:43 I just wanted to show that I'm able to be consistently there and I'm able to win another
02:50 one.
02:51 I really hope that more, more than two right now.
02:55 But for me it was really important so that's why no matter what the result, like win or
02:59 lose, we're always working hard.
03:01 We're always looking for things to improve in my game and yeah, it's all about the process
03:08 and make sure that you, about the discipline, make sure that you're always there, you always
03:13 show up and you always work hard.
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