00:03Carolina, une excellente match, une excellente performance et vous êtes dans la finale de Wimbledon.
00:07Comment vous vous sentez maintenant?
00:10Merci beaucoup. Je suis toujours en train d'essayer d'essayer.
00:17C'était l'un des combats et je suis juste en train d'entrer le moment.
00:25David?
00:26Bonjour, Carolina.
00:28A 8 points all in the tie-break you had a time violation against you and put a backhand long
00:33and then we had the next point where Coco had a chance to maybe put a forehand away
00:39and hit the net with a drop shot.
00:40I just wondered in that period what was going through your mind?
00:45I forgot about it. I forgot about the time violation.
00:51Yeah, I guess I was on the limit. I didn't see it at that time honestly.
00:56I didn't check the clock. I was just trying to take a little more time maybe.
01:02It didn't really do much to me, to be honest.
01:07But, yeah.
01:11Ben?
01:12Your first pretty good first ever match on center court for you I think, right?
01:16So what was the whole atmosphere like?
01:18And then I'm also just curious separately how you're feeling physically after that sort of battle with the heat
01:22and maybe there was some sort of ab issue you had also?
01:26Yeah, the court is unreal. I had a chance to actually warm up today on it which I think was
01:33very helpful to kind of get used to the grounds and the roof and kind of just all surroundings.
01:41It's a beautiful court and it was packed. It was such a great atmosphere. So, yeah. It's a very nice
01:50experience to play on it. Even better to get my first win there.
01:54It was very long, tough battle physically, mentally. At the end I had a stitch. I had a tough... I
02:03didn't have anything with my ab. I just couldn't catch a breath and that was it.
02:08I was just trying to, you know, massage it a little bit to get it away. But, yeah. It was
02:16pure fight.
02:20Do you have a theory as to why the Czech Republic produces so many women's tennis players, yourself included?
02:28I don't have a theory.
02:31Do you not think there's so many?
02:33Yeah.
02:3310 of the top 100. So many have done well at Wimbledon.
02:36Yeah, yeah. No, it's... We have great history of Czech tennis and definitely the fact that there is so many
02:47of us and myself when I was younger looking up to, you know, the girls who were like maybe five
02:56years older than I was.
02:57You can just see them doing so well. So it gave me the belief that I can as well do
03:03it.
03:05That's how it worked for me. And, yeah, it's nice that we're from such a small country and we have
03:13so many good players.
03:16James?
03:17Carolina, this being your second Grand Slam final, it's always easier the second time, people say.
03:23Is there anything that you did in the days before your first Grand Slam final that you won't do again
03:29or things that you will do differently to maybe change the way you feel going into it?
03:34I would have to remember what I did in Paris. It's been a while, it's been three years, so I
03:40don't really know what I was doing in a day off.
03:45But I will just try to do the same what I've been doing here these two weeks, you know, do
03:49the kind of same ritual, same stuff, hit for 30 minutes tomorrow and just try to keep it chill, recover
03:56as best as I can and then have that last match on Saturday.
04:01What rituals are there? Are there any things that you've been doing every day to prepare?
04:07Yeah, well, yeah, we go to tennis, hit 30 minutes, just a light hit to feel the balls and then
04:16the court. Then I have a half day off, I go to have some good food. I go every day
04:23to the same coffee shop. Just like little things.
04:29Eva?
04:30Congratulations, Carolina. In the tie break, especially at the end, you had so much success coming up to net, but
04:35Coco did have that passing shot.
04:37That she got you on that one time. When you then go back in to net two points later, is
04:42that trusting your game? Or is it you're just saying, no, I know the patterns that work here.
04:47Like, I'm just curious for someone, you guys have such a lopsided head to head, as you know, and you've
04:51gotten her twice this year, but how much do you have to trust yourself when maybe some shots aren't working
04:56or you've lost to her five times and that's in the back of your mind?
04:59Yeah.
05:00Sorry, that was a bad question.
05:03Thanks.
05:05No, honestly, during that tie break, I had, it was like, kind of rollercoaster as well emotionally for me. Like
05:14one point I felt good. I had hit a nice winner and then I did like a terrible mistake. And
05:23then in my head was just, like, I have to keep hitting. I have to keep, I was telling myself.
05:29If I'm going to lose this, I want to lose on my own terms. And my terms is going forward
05:37and playing aggressive and going to the net. So even though Coco, she is incredible athlete and she always gives
05:46you that one point back, I would say.
05:48So even though I, I knew when I hit the volley that she is still going to be there and
05:54hit few unreal passing shots throughout the whole match, but it's kind of my game and I just wanted to,
06:01I just wanted to stick to it.
06:05Hey, Carolina. Did you, I mean, do you have any recollection of the moment when she had that short ball
06:12and you were all the way in the back of the court and looked on match, on her match point?
06:17Did anything pass through your mind of like, okay, it's over? Or?
06:22I thought I would get there actually.
06:26When she hit the drop shot. Did you think she was going to hit a drop shot or did you
06:29think she was going to swing hard and go away?
06:30I think I would get to that drop shot. But in a few points before that, when she hit the
06:39drop shot, I didn't hit a good shot back. And then she kind of won the rally. So I was
06:45happy it didn't go over the net.
06:48Carol?
06:49In the bigger picture of your career, what does that mean to you to get back to that second Grand
06:54Slam final and maybe a word on playing Linda?
06:58It's a very special moment. It's a great achievement. It's, this is, this is one of the biggest tournaments that
07:08we have with all the, again, I'll repeat myself, the history.
07:12So many legends were playing here as well to just get to play on the center court. It's, it's, it
07:18was so nice. So, um, yeah, I'm just incredibly glad and, and happy that it happened and that I have
07:27a chance to play another final.
07:31Sorry, Linda, just, oh, yeah, well, I don't have any, any thoughts about it. This is, uh, I just learned
07:40it now. So they don't really think of that.
07:43Catherine?
07:44Hi, Carolina. Congratulations.
07:46Um, it was less than a year ago that you were, you know, coming back from the wrist injury and
07:51slicing mostly on the backhand.
07:54I just wondered through that process, like when you were coming back from the wrist, did you always know you
08:00would get back to this point with your ground strokes?
08:02Or was there a time where you thought you, you might sort of always be a bit compromised and have
08:08to play differently, like?
08:10Uh, no, for me last year, it was either the pain is gonna go away and I'll be able to
08:18play or I'll, I'll have a surgery.
08:21So it was never, if I would still have that pain, I would never play that way and just try
08:26to find a way to play with, play one handers. It didn't really go too well for me.
08:30Um, but luckily it happened the way that, uh, that the pain went away and, and, uh, uh, we did
08:39a lot of work on, on that and I was able to, and I am able to, um, to play
08:45again fully.
08:46When did the pain go away?
08:48Um, after Wimbledon last year.
08:53Simon?
08:54Uh, uh, when, sorry, I forgot my question for a second.
08:58Um, I was going to ask you about, uh, Sven, because we tried to speak to Sven after the match
09:03and he didn't want to talk.
09:04He said he wanted to leave it to you, but what is it about him?
09:08How would you describe what he's brought to your, to your game in particular? What, what changes he made?
09:13I don't know if you've been here in all the interviews before, but I had this question every time.
09:19Maybe, maybe you can just look at the two days ago what I was saying.
09:24Um, I would just honestly repeat myself.
09:27Um, he brought a lot. I'm, I'm, I'm really happy to have him in my corner.
09:33He is a good guy and, um, um, yeah, I, I wish he'd talk to you so I don't have
09:40to answer all these questions about him every time.
09:44Um, so I think that's, that's my answer to that.
09:47Tell him.
09:48Yeah, tell him. Bye.
09:49Hi, Carolina. Congratulations.
09:51Hi, thank you.
09:51I know you like your paddle and you've got great hands in and around the net.
09:54Does it help at all the touch and feel with paddle and tennis?
09:57Is there any similarities and does it help at all?
10:00That's, I think, tough to say, but, uh, when we practice and sometimes I get some good volley, I, we
10:06always,
10:07because I play paddle with my team, with my, with my physio and then coaches.
10:10So when I hit some good ones, we are like, that's from the paddle.
10:14But like, who knows?
10:15But, uh, but I, uh, we definitely play a lot.
10:18It's, it's fun.
10:19Two more English, Ben.
10:21Just sort of on the topic of repetitive questions.
10:24I'm curious because you're playing another Czech in the finals.
10:26There's going to be a lot of, you're going to get asked and Linda's going to get asked too.
10:29What is it about Czech tennis?
10:30And I'm curious, just, you've probably been getting this your whole career.
10:33So I'm wondering what your relation is to that sort of question.
10:35I mean, people being so curious about Czech tennis all the time because none of the Czech players
10:40ever really seem to have any magic answer to it.
10:43It's just some question that you guys get a lot.
10:44So I'm wondering what your relationship is to that, that question.
10:47To that question?
10:48Yeah.
10:48Just getting asked all the time about what makes Czech tennis special.
10:51I'm, I'm honestly tired about it because as, as you, um, as you said, I get this question every
10:59second day, I would say, and it's, uh, every, yeah, every time I think we all answered it,
11:05um, or try to answer it, but, um, it's on one hand, it's nice to get that question because
11:12it's so good for our country and for the sport in our country.
11:16And we're such a small country and, and this is, um, just unbelievable and, and, uh, and all that.
11:23But yeah, to, to get that question all the time, I try to, you know, answer every time
11:29differently and, um, I don't know what to, what to say anymore.
11:34Chris?
11:35Uh, Carolina, growing up, what surface did you think you'd have the most success on in your career?
11:39Was it grass or...?
11:42I've never really thought about it because when I was a kid and in Czech, you play on the clay
11:48most of the time.
11:50Um, then once you get on the tour and get that ranking, you play most of the time on the
11:54hardcourt.
11:54So I think, um, on the grass, I didn't play that many matches, uh, overall until this year, I would
12:02say.
12:03Um, I just, I'd say I'm pretty adaptive that I can adapt to, to all the surfaces and I like
12:12them all
12:12because you can, you know, you can use all different kind of type of game and, and weapons
12:18and, uh, and spins on all, um, all the surfaces.
12:22So I, I enjoy the, the changes and I actually always look forward when we, when we have that change
12:27and go from, from hardcourt to clay and then grass and then, then back to back there.
12:35Okay. Thank you. We'll take some Czech questions.
12:37Thank you.
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