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Patty
Schnyder beat Nathalie Dechy 6-2 6-4
Q. It's been quite a while since you reached a
quarterfinal in a Grand Slam. What do you think has
changed back for you in the last few months?
PATTY
SCHNYDER: Yeah, I was playing really good in the indoor
tournaments at the end of the year already. I just felt
that my game is there. I just needed the opportunity like
here to, yeah, to go far and, yeah, to be able to play a
hundred percent of my game.
Q. Have you
played Lisa Raymond much? What is your record like against
her?
PATTY
SCHNYDER: I think I won three times. But it's going to be
really different, I think, this time. Twice we played I
think on hard court outdoors. It was very close, always
three sets. So I expect a really tough match. I mean, for
both of us it's a big match, so we going to be a little
nervous. Yeah, we see what happens.
Q. Are you
excited about this whole opportunity that's sort of
opening up here?
PATTY
SCHNYDER: Yes, of course. I mean, we always try to look
for the next match. But as soon as like Sugi lost already
like in my part of the draw, I really tried to, yeah, get
her spot to quarters.
Just before
we went on court, like Suarez and me, Venus lost also. You
can just feel it, that something is a little easier, or a
little more possible to reach. So I'm trying my best.
Q. Is there a
sense that this is something that might not come again and
you have to take advantage of it now?
PATTY
SCHNYDER: Yeah, I hope that it's coming again, because I
think I beat a lot of Top 10 players, a lot of good
players, No. 1's in the world. Just not in a Grand Slam
yet.
This is an
opportunity, yeah, not to beat the Top 10s to go into the
semis. Of course you don't have too many opportunities
like this in your career. But I think I'm a very good
player and I can go very far here.
Q. Just on
today's game briefly, I wanted to know, it's straight
sets, but it looked like Dechy made you work pretty hard
out there.
PATTY
SCHNYDER: Yeah, the beginning was very tough. She has a
solid game. She had a good rhythm coming into the match,
and I really knew that I have to mix up the shots like the
most I can. I really brought the slices in, which I really
don't do a lot of times. And (inaudible) the high balls
and make her come into the net so I can hit passing shots.
Yeah, I mean,
I had to really think every shot what I was going to do.
Of course, I got a little shaky at the end. It was a tough
game.
Q. So when
she broke back, you were facing the prospect of a third
set, you didn't let that happen, must have been pleased to
come back that?
PATTY
SCHNYDER: Yeah, of course I was really pleased to play
some good winners at the end to finish it off on her
serve. But, yeah, I think she didn't play too well like a
big part of the match. I don't know, she just probably was
loosen up at the end and she didn't miss anymore. She made
it tough for me to finish it off. |
