F. SCHIAVONE/A. Pavlyuchenkova
1 6, 7 5, 7 5
FRANCESCA SCHIAVONE
Q. You're a mature woman.
FRANCESCA SCHIAVONE: Thank you. (Laughter.)
Q. How did you explain that you go and play a girl who's almost a child still; yet at the end you seem to have even more energy and enthusiasm?
FRANCESCA SCHIAVONE: No, I think she was too very exciting and energy. Both we were ready to do something great.
No, I think at the end, more I play, I play better. That's always from always. I burn like this. I started, okay, too slow, absolutely too slow.
But in the end I felt better much more. I could play much more. I could play better. So it was good.
Q. Was there a point in your mind where you thought, Well, maybe I'm over the hump, and from now on it'll be easier even if I lose?
FRANCESCA SCHIAVONE: Yeah, sure. A little bit yes, but a little bit no. Because when I arrive 4 1 down and you try to win the second set and you win the second set, you know you have other 45 minutes to play. So you have to be ready for everything.
I was ready to play longer.
Q. You seemed to have some trouble to get into the match. Explain to us why. Then you raised your game in the second set. When did you feel that it finally clicked and that your shots all went in and it went better?
FRANCESCA SCHIAVONE: I couldn't play spin inside the court. No, the true is that I couldn't play inside the court, inside the line. I tried to keep my serve, but always second serve because the first one, the percentage was really down.
On 6 1, 4 1 no, 6 1, I say, Keep going. The key is to hit three, four, five, six, seven balls, but I couldn't arrive three, four. So I say, Keep going. That's the way to win or to try to do something. Otherwise if I go to the net in one shot, no way to win.
So 4 1, I played really good two games. Then she went a little bit down, and when I catch her on 4 All, I say, Keep going. I am here. If I have to lose, I have to lose in a right way. But if I have the chance to win, I going good direction.
Q. What did you think when she came back from 5 1 to 5 All?
FRANCESCA SCHIAVONE: I think was doing like this: 5 1, I was with windy. There was a lot of windy. So when you are to the other side, very difficult to win the games.
But I arrive 5 1, and she was serving against the wind. I was saying, This is a good chance for me. Good inside. 5 1, 0 15, she served the second serve and I tried it hit with my forehand long line. That is strange and is to go to win directly point, and I miss a little bit.
Then she play I think some points good, and I didn't push enough. So 5 2. When I went to the other side against the wind, was not easy to win. She grow up a little bit with the level; I went a little bit down. Was enough, enough to go 5 4.
And when I came to the wind, I say 5 4 is good chance for me. Now serve, good percentage, but she played good, better than me in that moment, pushing me outside with the forehand and push hard on my backhand.
I think she played really good, but maybe she had less experience than me. Today I think my 30 years old, I could use it.
Q. (No microphone.)
FRANCESCA SCHIAVONE: To adapt about winning? No, because she played good 5 4, 5 All. Then I say, That's my way. I can't go serve and volley or do something strange. The key is to play deep and with spin, soon as I have the chance, go inside.
Q. A question about you and your game. More than anyone in our sport, you're so expressive, you're happy, joyous, miserable, sad. We always know what you're thinking. Just talk about your expressive quality, your expressions? Is that part of who you are?
FRANCESCA SCHIAVONE: Yeah. I live and I love tennis when I can express myself. So enjoying and be sad, like you say, I am a mix of everything. I am transparent, so you can understand how I play and how I feel. I should a little bit don't show too much.
But I'm improving. So in some years will be good. (Smiling.) And, yes, I am like this inside the court, outside. But is good. I enjoy to play tennis.
I am 6 1, 4 1 down, and I say, Francie, this is the way go. Today like this. Keep going. I was really sad inside, but what can you do?
Nobody can change; just me. So I came back and I enjoy a little bit more at the end than at the start, for sure.
Q. It wasn't that long ago that the tour was dominated by teenagers: Steffi, Monica, Martina, whatever. Nowadays it seems to be more experienced players having the better road like yourself at 30, as you say. Can you talk about why you think that has occurred?
FRANCESCA SCHIAVONE: Because I think now everybody are really fit and ready for every kind of matches and every kind of surface. So the young player are coming, but is not easy like before to win easy.
Or you are a big, big talent or now you can find 28 or 30 years old, and they use experience, they use body, mind. So for young player is much tougher now than before.
Q. Leaving the court you touched the ground and kissed your hand. What does it mean? Can you speak about it?
FRANCESCA SCHIAVONE: No, I couldn't go down. I was pain in my legs, so I say thanks in that way. But was a kiss...
Q. The ground?
FRANCESCA SCHIAVONE: Yeah, was a kiss to the clay, yeah.
Q. Can you explain to me why we see so many women's matches here turning around? We saw Sharapova turn it around against Radwanska, you turning around. Rus turning it around against Clijsters. Can you explain me in less than one minute why women's tennis is that kind?
FRANCESCA SCHIAVONE: I think happen also in the match, because if you follow, sometimes you say, okay, 5 3 the women's serve, oh, maybe could lose. But in the men happen, too. Less than woman, but of course if I serve from two meters at 200 kilometers or more, it's different than 166, 60 kilos, bleep.
But to explain why, I don't know. Because clay for sure give you always a chance. Grass give less chance. Hard court less. So clay you have to go to the net and shake the hands before to say is finish the match. I think like this.
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