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01:19Hi Marta, well done. I guess talking about Sunday, I find, you know, given your success on Klay and Iga's
01:25success here and Roland Garris, I find it really just a great matchup. I'm just curious your thoughts and what
01:30do you think, you know, needs to be done to beat her?
01:34Yeah, I lost to her three times, one of which was during junior years and I'm very excited for this
01:40match. I wanted to play her in a while. Yeah, she loves to play here, obviously, but, you know, I
01:50have every chance and I'm gonna, you know, I'm an underdog in this match for sure. I'm gonna go out
01:57there and enjoy it as much as I can.
02:00Hey Marta, great performance today. There was an incident, I think it might have been before your match or during
02:05it, when Zeynep Sommers, she ran to the back of the court and, like, ran into the kind of the
02:11advertising billboard and hurt her foot and had to retire.
02:15Yeah, it's happened a few times. I think blocks also had to retire due to the cover, court cover. So
02:21I'm curious if you've had any issues with that over the years, just when you're running to the back of
02:26the court, being wary of the obstacles that you have to navigate.
02:29Yeah, I witnessed two injuries like this before, which was Goffin here. And I don't remember. Ah, Flipkins in Abu
02:41Dhabi. I was watching this match and she also, like, stepped on this thing.
02:44Yeah, it's terrible. I had one moment in the previous match when she played really, like, deep lob and I
02:51was really far back. And usually I just let it go. I don't, you know, play this ball fully because
02:57I prefer to lose the point than, like, get injured.
03:02Yeah, I don't know. That happened a few times. And we were in Jambouane. We also, we were passing by
03:09and Ray Ljopelka was practicing and he was standing on this thing as he was returning serves on the practice.
03:17So we were looking at it and I was like, this doesn't look good. It's really dangerous. And yeah, I'm
03:23obviously very sorry for Zeynep and hopefully it's nothing very serious.
03:28But yeah, it happened a few times. I don't know. I try to be very careful with this. I'm aware
03:34of it and I just let it go. So I don't know what can be done with it. I don't
03:41think much you can do, but.
03:49I don't know. Honestly, I feel like there are some rules that no matter what happens, they just cannot be
03:55changed.
03:55And no matter how much you speak about it or how much you fight over it, it's just the rules.
04:02I don't know. I cannot say.
04:06Hey, Marta. Well done. I'm wondering what sort of reactions and support you've gotten from back home during this streak,
04:15also during this week in terms of that sort of helps you connect and understand how people are watching you
04:21back in a tough part of the world.
04:25And also, I'm sure you've seen sort of on the COVID, very outspoken comments about the situation. And I was
04:33curious what you what you thought of her and her outspokenness.
04:38So answering first question, I always feel this support and I try to feel it, especially when I lose. And,
04:45you know, I was very happy to see again so many Ukrainian flags, Ukrainian people screaming in the crowd.
04:51And there's always nice and, you know, for people to follow, to find time and to become fans of tennis
04:59is something I'm always happy about and answering second question.
05:04Well, I fully agree with everything she says, you know, like I've been doing that in the beginning of the
05:09war. I just felt like I've done everything I could.
05:12And I, you know, if she's going to get some success over this, you know, stands, this, you know, being
05:20so outspoken, I'm all for it.
05:23I just really don't have energy to fight this anymore. I've done it for over one and a half year
05:30and it was difficult for me.
05:33And, you know, if it's something that, you know, she feels like she should be doing, I'm, you know, fully
05:38supportive of this.
05:39I don't think she says anything bad about anyone. She's usually just talking about facts and what actually happened, which
05:46I don't think it's ever a bad thing.
05:49Yeah, I'm incredibly impressed also how she's managing to separate those things.
05:54I listened to the whole press conference and how she said, yeah, it doesn't bother me at all on the
05:58court.
05:59Like, all I think about is playing tennis. And I was like, wow, congrats.
06:01Like, I really couldn't do it back then. Like, I could not separate it.
06:05Like, and she's doing it. And congrats. I mean, it's very impressive what that's all I can say.
06:12But obviously she's also much younger than I was back then, much older when I was back then.
06:18So, yeah, I'm rooting for her in this.
06:26Congratulations, of course.
06:28Once again about match against Iga. I'm not sure that you are an underdog because you are on the really
06:35great shape and you're defending your status now after Madrid, for example.
06:41And Iga's reclaim her dominance now, I'm thinking.
06:44And how do you see the changing, the dynamic about this?
06:49I don't know. I definitely have a different feeling going into this match because I feel like last time that
06:55I played her in Cincinnati, I lost this match way before it even started.
06:59And I don't feel the same this time.
07:02But I'm still, you know, I'm still the person who lost to her three times and she's won this tournament
07:08four times.
07:08So it's like, you know, I would love to be the one who is like a favorite in this match,
07:15but I still don't think it's the case, even though I have this really long streak.
07:21But it's not going to, you know, ruin my day or ruin my game.
07:25I still want to go out and try my best and enjoy.
07:27Like I have never taken a set of her.
07:29So even if I win one set in the next match, I'm going to be very happy.
07:33You know, that's that's how I look at it.
07:35And, you know, I'm excited for this match.
07:38There's a lot of Polish journalists here.
07:41That's why I want to ask about your coach, Sandra Zaniewska.
07:44I know that you talk a lot about her, but can you please repeat what she did to you and
07:49what has she changed?
07:51And what's the funniest and the most enjoyable thing about working with her?
07:57Well, I think that we are both able to be who we are.
08:03We never, you know, if there is something that we want to say, whether it's good or bad,
08:07we always have this freedom to say it.
08:10We I think we have very similar sense of humor.
08:13So that definitely helps because we make a lot of very stupid jokes, which probably only us that understand it.
08:21I don't know.
08:22I mean, we even have like she has like notes in her phone that whenever we say something really like
08:29it has to be written down.
08:30And we have it like from every year and from different situations.
08:34So sometimes we go over them and it's like always hilarious.
08:38Yeah, I think I think these are like the biggest ones.
08:43But I would say we both have like we try to have very, you know, long perspective on whatever I
08:51do.
08:52And that helps to not be like overwhelmed with, you know, current tournament or me not playing good enough, you
08:59know,
08:59because we always think like, OK, it's not going to matter at all in one year.
09:02You know, like it's really even in one month, it's going to be like gone.
09:06So that helps to just not create this pressure of like, you know, when something is not working.
09:11And generally, yeah, I think I think she's a great person and everyone should subscribe to her sub stack.
09:17That's all I can say.
09:20You said back in Madrid or something that one way you've kind of come to understand clay is by viewing
09:27each kind of tournament
09:28and all the conditions differently rather than all as one kind of thing.
09:32So I'm curious, just how have you approached Roland Garros?
09:35The conditions here, the sun, I guess, and how different is it to say in Madrid?
09:42Yeah, in Madrid it is much faster.
09:44The points are much shorter, for sure.
09:47This is a good thing.
09:48But here, yeah, it's very slow.
09:51If you are like running well, which the past, like both of my, Katie and Victoria, they both like hustlers.
10:01They run, they play the balls back.
10:04And, you know, it's like you have to create this point.
10:06You have to find your opportunity to finish the point.
10:08You cannot rush.
10:09And I think this was really difficult in the sense that, you know, I love to play aggressive.
10:14I want to come to the net, but here I need to really take time.
10:18I think this is the biggest difference, that it's really, really slow.
10:22But I love that there is a high bounce, so I can, you know, do different things that, you know,
10:27bring me, you know,
10:29I get more advantage from this height.
10:32And other than that, I mean, it was really hot as well.
10:37I think it's going to be much slower on Sunday, like, than all these matches that I've played.
10:42It's going to be even slower.
10:43So it's going to be a cool match.
10:46Thank you.
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