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Rome: third round interview
May 16 / 2008 / 6:33 PM
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[*]QUESTION
There are so many ways to find out the form. This is one of the ways, just to start a little bit slowly and then to find out, or you have some problems with your forehand or something?

MARIA SHARAPOVA:
No. I actually started good. Just in the middle of the match I had a little letdown. Actually not a little, quite big. ...
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QUESTION
Didn't seem like you out there, Maria. She played well, but you looked a little slow, late to the ball, all that.

MARIA SHARAPOVA:
That's pretty much right. You can keep talking. I'm sure it will be correct.

QUESTION
She did a good job dictating with her forehand, she served pretty well. But with you, you never seemed to get any rhythm.

MARIA SHARAPOVA:
I was just playing with a much slower pace than I normally play with. You know, I wasn't -- I wasn't going for my shots as I normally do, and as usual, I wasn't seeing the ball that good. I wasn't taking the short balls and doing anything with them, kind of giving her the opportunity to get back in the points.
There were a couple important points that could have changed the match, and she ended up winning them. I think from that she gained confidence and kind of steamrolled after that in the third set.
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Pacific Life Open: Quarter final interview
March 20 / 2008 / 3:46 PM
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QUESTION
Did you say at the end of the match, This is my home now?

MARIA SHARAPOVA:
Well, I did, because in the first set I was playing like I didn't even belong on that court. I finally got my groove back, and it just felt like, you know, I finally belonged to be out there.
My level just was so low in that first set. I wasn't going up on my serve, I wasn't returning. I was making so many errors, and she had -- she had that first set in her hands and she just didn't take her opportunities.
You know, to be honest, she did everything better than I did in the first set, and somehow I ended up winning it, and that gave me the confidence. And in the end of that set I started to pick it up, but the second set was great.
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Pacific Life Open: 4th round interview
March 19 / 2008 / 1:40 PM
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QUESTION
That was quite an escape there?

MARIA SHARAPOVA:
Uh-huh. Yeah, it was. You know, I felt like I was up throughout the match, and I just did a solid job of winning that first set and had so many opportunities in the second set to finish it off.
I was up a couple of breaks and just couldn't. She started playing really good tennis towards the end of that second set, and I just couldn't get my opportunities back, couldn't get those chances that I had in the beginning of the second set.
And in the fourth game, it was just a dog fight. I felt like I was pretty close to being down and out, because I wasn't able to produce, you know, good points for a long period of time. I was like a little kid that would make -- I was doing like a beaded bracelet. I would put four beads together and they would all fall down and then I'd start all over again.
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Pacific Life Open: Third round interview
March 17 / 2008 / 2:36 PM
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QUESTION
She plays you tough for some reason? Why do you think?

MARIA SHARAPOVA:
It was a very scratchy match from my side today from the beginning. I was just not seeing the ball, not moving that great. She always -- she always plays tough, because you never really know what to expect from her.
You know, her serving pattern is always different. You know, she can hit really big serves, and then she all of a sudden she goes to like 90 miles per hour and does the same thing on the second serve.
So she doesn't quite give you a lot of rhythm, which, you know, which I should pick up really fast, and I didn't do that well today. You know, I wasn't moving quite well throughout the first set. I was Grandpa Joe out there (laughter.)
But it got better towards the end of the second set. I started seeing the ball better and moving in. I was just not moving in after my shots at all.
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