00:00THE MATCH
00:03OK, let's begin.
00:05Paula, if you could, your thoughts on the match.
00:08Well, I'm very disappointed with my level today.
00:11I think she played really good and she managed the situation really well.
00:15And I was a complete disaster.
00:18Thank you. Questions in English? One question each.
00:21Brian.
00:24In your mind, what changed the momentum
00:27from when you were up 5-1?
00:31I never had the momentum in this match.
00:33I played four or five games OK.
00:36It was 5-1, but I never felt myself in the court.
00:39I didn't feel serving well, playing well from the baseline.
00:43That's my biggest strength.
00:46So I think today, it's surprisingly, because I was playing pretty good
00:50the other matches, I was feeling good.
00:52But when I walked into the court,
00:54I think I didn't manage well the situation or the emotions.
00:58It was a bit hard to handle for me.
01:01I wanted to win so much that sometimes that doesn't help at all.
01:07Brian.
01:09I think you just said you were a disaster or something like that.
01:12Do you mean the way you were playing or the way you sort of mentally reacted?
01:16Everything.
01:17This is the first time that it happens to me in my career.
01:19I think losing a set from 5-1 up, I never did that before.
01:24So I think there's always a first time for something.
01:28So it had to come today, unfortunately.
01:31And I don't know.
01:33I still need to think what happened because I had two service games there also.
01:40I started to miss. I lost, I don't know, 20 points almost in a row.
01:44It's very weird for me because I'm quite a consistent player.
01:48So I wasn't expecting that either.
01:50So I'm quite disappointed.
01:54A tough question to ask a player after a loss.
01:56But could you talk about Emma and her game?
02:00What makes her strong and why she's had this run here, please?
02:04Well, she's a very calm player, first of all.
02:06And that's very important when you go to a slam to get the weight.
02:11I mean, put your emotions on the side.
02:13That's maybe the thing that sometimes I don't handle pretty well.
02:17And she does that really well.
02:19And then she's very talented, very good backhand and very good forehand.
02:22She has a variety in her game.
02:26So that's really important.
02:28And she's a great player. So congrats to her.
02:31Courtney, then David.
02:32Courtney Nguyen, WTA, Paula.
02:35Did you feel normal, I guess, this morning when you woke up?
02:39Or warming up, everything, the way it's felt in the past few days?
02:42And you said it was your first, obviously, time on Ash.
02:45I don't know if stepping out there kind of reminded you of the occasion or something.
02:50Yeah, I was great in the morning.
02:52I just stepped on the court and I felt weird.
02:56And I was surprised at myself,
03:00because normally I like to play these things,
03:03but I think it's not the court, it was more the round for me, you know?
03:07And seeing myself sometimes so close, so far but so close at the same time,
03:11and with a good level,
03:13your mind is very tough to stay in the present, you know?
03:17And I think my mind was everywhere except in the present.
03:21And it's something I've been working and I've been improving so much,
03:24but it's something that also hurt me so much in my career, you know?
03:28Sometimes wanting it so much and thinking ahead of it,
03:32and sometimes I can't even focus in that moment.
03:35And I think today was a little bit that, you know?
03:37David.
03:39David Gane, tennis.com.
03:40With how successful you have been this summer leading up to this result,
03:43do you think with some distance you'll be able to look back
03:45on the totality of the last few weeks
03:47and say this was maybe not as much of a disaster as...
03:50Yeah, now I say it's a disaster, but I know it's...
03:54When I started in Washington, I would sign all the results for sure.
04:00And coming from where I'm coming from, look, I have to be happy.
04:03I don't know, maybe I'm 15 in the race.
04:05So I wasn't expecting that a few months ago.
04:08So on that, I'm really proud of myself.
04:11The thing that for me makes me the way I am today, it's a slam.
04:17And, you know, your dream is always to make your last round in a slam, you know?
04:21And performing the way I performed today,
04:24I know that if it wasn't a slam, I would perform well.
04:28So that's what's a little bit...
04:30Why I'm like this today, you know?
04:33Because I didn't know how to handle it the best way.
04:36And now I have to wait four months for the next slam.
04:39So it sucks.
04:40Last question in English, Charlie.
04:42Charlie from Athletic.
04:43I just wondered if you're the kind of person
04:46who will sort of think about what happened today
04:50and, you know, why you weren't able to perform,
04:51or just try and kind of put it out of your mind and, you know, forget about it?
04:56No, I'm the first one.
04:57I'm very obsessive and I think about the things
05:01and I don't like to make the same mistake two times.
05:04That's also what brought me where I am.
05:08But maybe that also I will think about it too much.
05:12So I will try to...
05:14Especially my team will help me, like, not to...
05:17How do you say?
05:20Yeah, myself, like, how to destroy myself.
05:26I even forgot how to speak English today, imagine.
05:29What a day, man. Can I go to sleep?
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