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Patty Schnyder lost to Elena Dementieva 6-3 4-6 0-6

Q.  It was an exciting week of tennis.  Thank you.  Really, the last two matches ‑‑ the first two matches were deuces and a lot of hard‑played points. 

PATTY SCHNYDER: You mean the sets today.

Q.  Yeah.  The first two sets.  Thanks.  And then can you talk a little bit about that? 

PATTY SCHNYDER: Yeah.  I think basically it was a turnaround in the second set, like the very first game.  She had some lucky shots, and that really ‑‑ yeah, it was a complete turnaround, and she was suddenly on and not missing anymore, and I could keep that one still tight, but at the end she was really better.  And I tried to stick with her, and maybe she would give me a chance to come back in the third set, so I tried, yeah, to get on the board, but she was too good.  She was hitting winners, running, getting my shots, covering the court very well, and yeah, she's a very good player.

Q.  She seemed to really get into a groove with her forehand in the second set and used her backhand well in the third set.  Do you agree with that?

PATTY SCHNYDER: Yeah.  Of course.  She completely ‑‑ yeah.  She felt her game, and her performance was extraordinary at the end, and yeah, sure.  She's just a Top 10 player and a champion, so that's the way she can play. 

Q.  You know, you probably are feeling a little frustrated right now.  You know, we talked earlier, and you said you liked the way the draw was set up and you liked the seed and everything.  Do you sometimes think that maybe it's just not meant to be down here at this tournament?

PATTY SCHNYDER: Yeah.  I think for sure it's going to be here, if not ‑‑ because I'm playing very good tennis here, and it gives me a lot of confidence to be in a Tier I semifinals.  I mean it's not happening every day, and you see all the great players around, so I think I'm going to do well here the coming years, so it's not going to ‑‑

Q.  I mean not to actually win at all. 

PATTY SCHNYDER: Why not?  I mean I'm playing so many good matches.  I beat so many Top 10 players here, so I know that I can do it all the way, so there's no reason to worry.  There are some other big tournaments I should worry more because I have no results at all, so I love coming back here and I know that I can do it. 

Q.  Patty, you've reached the semifinals in Australia twice.  What do you put your success down to there as opposed to the French?

PATTY SCHNYDER: It was just once. 

Q.  Sorry. 

PATTY SCHNYDER: This year was quarters.  I don't really know.  Like last year, I played really well, and I had an injury like for the clay court season, and I was just putting maybe too much pressure by playing ‑‑ I really want to play good there, but it was not possible because I could not practice enough, and that was probably the reason for last year.  And the other years I had some great matches.  I lost to Justine in the last 16, and it was a three‑setter and she went on to win the whole thing, so that's also a place in Paris where I feel comfortable and I think that I can go very far in the draw, and I just, yeah, try to do my best this year and we'll see how far it's going to work out.

Q.  It looked like you started to run out of gas early in the third match, or the third set.  Sorry. 

PATTY SCHNYDER: No, not at all.  I just ‑‑ I mean I felt that the game was a little slipping away because of the way she was playing, and I can sense those moments, so I was a little bit ‑‑ yeah, I didn't know how I can turn it around myself because I don't have really the shots and the winners right off the first shot, so I really need to rally, and she was very good in those rallies, so I felt a little bit, yeah, it was slipping away, which, yeah, really was the case. 

Q.  You're a craftsman with that tennis ball.  You're fun to watch.  You do all kinds of good things with it, and I was curious how you learned all that, you know, about tennis.  I think your best assets are your brain, and you're in tremendous shape, and I wanted to ask you how you learned. 

PATTY SCHNYDER: I don't know.  I mean it's a lot of instinct also and probably also talent and to be able to play all those shots, but to pick the right shot in a match, it's a lot of instinct, and I think you have it or it's very tough to learn, I think, but generally to learn a drop shot, you can work it on the court, but just to sense the right moment and to know when to play it, that's, yeah, that's a lot of instinct, but you can learn the shots.  You can learn the kick serve.  You can practice the angle balls, and it's just when to use it, that's the most important. 

Q.  How do you get into tennis in Switzerland with all the skiing?  How would you choose tennis?

PATTY SCHNYDER: It's just my parents also they were players.  I mean not really like good players, but they liked the sport, and so that's how I got the racquet and a tennis ball, and I was having a lot of fun doing it, so I just stick with it.