You may well play Simona Halep next. How would you approach that?
Well, we played once in New Haven I think not the last year,
the year before. I lost 6-1, 7-6, something like that. She's one of the
greatest player now, and I'm really looking forward. If she wins today,
depends, yeah. I will want to go forward and forward step by step.
Ekaterina Makarova
I look really calm, but inside, I'm yelling "What are you doing?" in a couple of languages.
Maria Sharapova
I just want to be perfect on court, but is not possible. The perfect
doesn't exist. So I try to keep my mind very focused for every point
and to forget about the mistakes. I try to be better day by day, match
by match. Maybe that's why I'm a little bit nervous during the matches.
Simona Halep
Do you have a favorite Genie Army song?
Yeah, I got asked this I think after my first or second
match. And I said it's the one where they go, Genie is hot, hot, hot.
But since they've been singing a newer one, I think maybe only from
second or third round on. It's based on Ricky Martin's song "Living La
Vida Loca." They changed the words and sing about me. I think that one's
pretty cool. They are creative to come up with such a random song and
talk about forehands and backhands and stuff. It's pretty funny. So that
one is up there.
Genie Bouchard
I don't know how close you still are with her. But did you hear about Maria Kirilenko getting married yesterday?
I did actually. I'm not sure to who. I really don't know. I mean, wonderful actually. Why are people laughing?
People think it's funny we don't know who she married. We know she got married.
What happens in Russia stays in Russia.
Maria Sharapova
Yep, I guess Kirilenko had her heart set on a wedding. Ovechkin wasn't there, so she just got a replacement groom. Wants what she wants, I guess. :)
ReplyDeleteThat last Sharapova quote is great. Very underrated sense of humor.
I feel bad for Kirilenko; this just doesn't sound good at all.
ReplyDeleteMaria's wit is unsurpassed.
It does feel a bit "off," doesn't it? :\
ReplyDeleteAnd Sharapova's words can also cut with the skill of a surgeon, if she so chooses (as Serena learned a while back). Formidable, on and off court.
My favorite surgical slice of all was the one Aga got :D
ReplyDeleteSharapova thinks she looks calm on court? Huh. I don't see that. To me she always looks stressed and like she'd rather be anywhere else.
ReplyDeleteShe always looks really intense to me, which I wouldn't call "calm."
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