Everyone is fighting like crazy because it's the last Grand Slam. When you play the Grand Slams, you just have to give everything you have.
I obviously want to win a grand slam, but whatever I do, however long I play, I hope I sustain a really long career, a healthy one, just a pretty consistent career. I obviously want to win a grand slam.
Twenty days ago my physio asked me if I was if I never think that I can win a Grand Slam or be in final of Grand Slam, and I said no.
I'm not the first player to have their home Grand Slam and not perform. There have been a few Australians and French players, you name it. It's a tough thing. But it is one of those things. Would I rather have a Grand Slam in my country than not? I would.
I'm not that good a player, and I'll be the first to admit that. I might be a three or four grand-slam winner; I might be a two grand-slam winner, I don't know.
I still think that I'm dreaming. It's a strange feeling. I always try to watch the final of Grand Slams because that's where the best players are playing. ... I never expected to play a final. I never expected to win a Grand Slam. And right now I just did it.
I don't put myself under huge pressure because if I don't play well at one grand slam, I know there's another one just a couple of months away.
It was a big pleasure to play a Grand Slam match on my birthday.
I don't think any player will miss a grand slam if they can play.
When you play semifinals on a Grand Slam, anything can happen, so you must be ready for the chance.
Those are the titles you play for, so I'd like to have a Grand Slam title in my life, and I'll do my best to do it.
Even when I was a little kid, I always dreamed that I would play Serena in a final of a Grand Slam.
In Grand Slam, you play every two days, five-set match. You have a little bit more time to make mistake.
This is just a 'Boom!' of energy for me to win a Grand Slam.
Hopefully I can just have another terrible year with only the one Grand Slam and that will be just fine.
Winning a Grand Slam changes everything. There is so much off-court stuff to deal with. And there are expectations of keeping it going that make it tough.