Q. I want to ask, you were playing a lot of defense in a lot of points today, and Amanda was dictating a lot of rallies. She had more winners than unforced errors than you, not usual for you. You are usually much more dominant. How easy was it for you to respond to that kind of game? And also, I’m curious how much Champagne you’ve already had today?
ARYNA SABALENKA: Well, actually, I didn’t have much. We were just, how you call it, spraying it out.
Actually (taking a drink), Cheers, Guys.
Well, I cannot be serious right now. But going to this match, I knew what to expect. She’s aggressive player. She plays really aggressive tennis, and I think that at Wimbledon I was overthinking. I was doubting my decisions, and I was stopping my arms a lot, and I was making a lot of mistakes. If not mistake, that I would just slow down the speed, and then she would just step in and go for her winners.
So going into this match, I knew that it’s going to be very fast game, very aggressive. I was just trying to stay as low as possible, and I was just trying to, you know, put that speed, that pressure back on her and see how she can handle it.
