Here’s the Garbine Muguruza French Open 2014 Interview Transcript following win over Williams. The Spaniard produced the biggest upset at Roland Garros after eliminating defending champion and world number one Serena Williams 6-2, 6-2 in the second round.
Q. Congrats. What’s your feeling right now?
GARBINE MUGURUZA: Very happy. Very excited. It’s my biggest win so far, so amazing.
Q. What did Serena say to you at the end of the match?
GARBINE MUGURUZA: She said that if I continue playing like this, I can win the tournament. I said, I will try, I will try.
Q. How does it feel to be able to pull off this sort of win on what is, as I understand it, is not your best surface?
GARBINE MUGURUZA: Well, I like clay, also. I have been practicing all my life in Spain, and in Spain we like so much the clay. So I feel really comfortable.
Today I had everything really clear. I was really focused, and I knew what I had to do on court, so I think that was the important part.
Q. Was there a moment in the match where you suddenly realized you have a great chance here?
GARBINE MUGURUZA: Yeah, there was a moment in the last games of the match. I was like, Oh, my God, I’m winning set, and then 4 1 or something like this.
I was nervous, but I said, Okay, be calm. She’s also nervous. I have the opportunity, so I have to continue like this to, you know, to win.
Q. Some of the other younger players who have beaten Serena this year have said when they stepped on the court, no, they didn’t believe they could do it, and then they eventually did it. Did you believe when you stepped on the court today?
GARBINE MUGURUZA: I believe I was thinking I have chance, I have to play really good, you know, to win.
But I played her I think two years ago and was horrible, because I was so nervous. I said, Okay, this time I’m not going to think I’m playing against Serena. I’m going to do what I have to do.
That’s what I was thinking all the match.
Q. I don’t know if you checked that next opponent, but there will be another young up on the coming player you are going to be playing in the next round. Do you feel like this tournament or this year is the time for you guys, your younger generation, to make a big achievement?
GARBINE MUGURUZA: Well, I think this year there is a lot of young girls that are playing really good. I think is a change now in the top 100, a lot of girls are coming, you know.
These things are going to happen, you know, sometime, new generation is going to come, and I think now is the moment.
Q. The media guide says Serena is your favorite player. Is that true? How do you prepare to play your favorite, the player you looked up to growing up?
GARBINE MUGURUZA: It’s very difficult, because since I was a child when I turn on the TV, I see her play. Everything, when I’m practicing, Okay, how Serena serves, how she plays a backhand. I saw like 100 videos of her.
But it was really difficult to be able to, okay, be calm, and say, It’s another player. But I think I did it, and that was the reason I could play like this.
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