Francesca Schiavone
Q: What have your preparations been like for Wimbledon since the French?
Schiavone: I think I bring the rain. In one week I play four hours maybe.
Q: How do you feel about the grass? You’ve had different results on it.
Schiavone: You know that’s tennis. I try to work as hard as I can to feel good when I start Wimbledon but it’s not easy. Time is short but I take example from Rafa and from Roger that they are great on both surfaces. I try to follow them.
Q: Do you feel it’s difficult to go from one surface to the other?
Schiavone: Of course it’s difficult. Everybody feel the difference between clay and grass – it’s normal. But at the same time people say ‘how do you change your play’. You don’t have to change, you just use a different type of muscle. The most important thing is to have a good serve, a good return because the first and second ball can make the difference. You have to use your reaction much more on the grass for sure. It’s the small things that can make the difference.
Q: Do you go in to a Wimbledon with the same confidence that you do with a French Open?
Schiavone: On the clay, I arrive I was not in such a good shape because I played three tournaments that I couldn’t arrive at a semi final. I say come on. And then in French Open I start and was better and better so I hope to give to myself the chance to win the first round and then follow my way.
Q: What do you feel about the Williams sisters returning here this week?
Schiavone: It’s great to have them back I think not just for tennis but for us. They are champions, they are great athletes. They come back, it’s tough, it’s tough for everybody but it’s interesting because when you play with the big athletes, personally I like the fight, to give the best to win. It’s great.
Q: Do you think it takes the pressure of you a little bit? That all the focus is on them?
Schiavone: No. I think everybody have pressure in different ways. I don’t know if they have big pressure because they just arrive and they have nothing to lose. I know Serena and Venus when they come back they are ready to compete so maybe high pressure for them. But at the same time every match is pressure when you play tennis.
Q: Do you have any different physical preparation for the Wimbledon?
Schiavone: Yeah, I eat more hamburgers! No, that’s a joke. You have stay a little bit more down with the legs and be good reaction with the foot so I try to work on the exercise that can give me much more reaction in the low part.
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