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Coco, tough battle today. Just give us your and [clears throat] first thoughts of the match. Yeah, I mean um I don't know. I had chances, so I think just trying to capitalize more on these good points that I'm hitting and not quite finishing, so um yeah, I think that was the difference that she was able to finish the points and I wasn't. Coco, good luck today. What was the most frustrating out there today that maybe you couldn't play the game you wanted or have the sensations you were used to? Maybe playing with the fancy or did you see that coming? Um I mean, I think again just like not capitalizing on certain shots. I mean, at three all I had a couple break points and missed I think two backhands or three backhands, which just can't happen in that
scenario, so um I think I don't know. I feel like I'm practicing well and when the moments get there, I'm not quite translating that. I do it at times and then I also don't do it, so I think it's just a learning experience and hopefully when I'm in this position again, I can make better decisions. Coco, you've had a lot of success in your career being able to win matches where you're not always playing your best. It's one of your strengths. I'm just wondering if you felt like you could still get over the line today even if things were not firing for you and just you know, what ultimately was not able to get you to escape this one?
Um I think just I lost this I feel like I lost the same way in Rome as I did here, which is um not good. I think um I don't know. You never want to lose the same way back-to-back times um and I did and I feel like also in Madrid it was a similar thing losing the same way. So, um it's one thing to lose, but I think today I didn't I mean I competed like I fought my hardest, but I don't think I played the way I wanted to in the crucial moments. Just looking ahead to Wimbledon if you can. It was a pretty good serving performance today. Do you take confidence in the improvement in the serve and what do you think the impact will be from that at Wimbledon?
Yeah, I mean obviously the serve is more consistent if I'm not holding serve which is the issue. I guess who cares how many serves I make in the court if I'm the result is still the same. So, I guess I mean obviously the grass I think will help a little bit more, but I think I could have served more aggressive at some points and did more patterns that I work on in practice today. I just didn't do so. Yes, it's more consistent and I have a lot of trust now in my serve, but at the same time I got broken a lot of times and I have to correct that. When you got to 6-5 in the second set and then 3-1 in the third set, did you think, "Okay,
I've got this under control?" I think you get that sort of feeling like the opponent was going to go away at this point? I mean you never obviously you win some games in a row, so you feel like the momentum's on your end, but it's pro sports, so I never feel completely comfortable to be honest until the match is over and yeah, I think that's maybe the issue too that when I see the momentum is on my side, I should put my keep putting my foot on the gas instead of maybe letting up a little bit and I think that's what I did.
Coco, tough one today. Um in terms of, you know, playing against Potapova, she can she's a player that isn't automatic when she has leads. Um, she can kind of let them go. How tricky is that to play against as well when you maybe sometimes want to put, you know, your foot on the gas pedal, but if you don't, she might, you know, back up a little bit and vice versa. Did you struggle with that in your head at all, either? Um, I mean, I kind of noticed like obviously in the second set, she I really broke her so many times and I could have held and maybe if I hold one time at 4-2 or at 4 to make it 4-3 instead of 5-2, could be different, but yeah, I think
when I you know, most players I feel like when they have the lead, they kind of especially against me kind of get a little bit tight um, and that showed today and um, but of obviously when you kind of like lose a lead, I've been in that position and you're playing from behind, you're a lot more freer cuz you're just like, whatever, and I think um, I need to have that same mentality when I'm in behind um, playing like that to get back into to a lead and I need to figure out how I to make that mental switch of keeping that level of play um, when I do have the lead cuz I think I 5-2 to 6-5, I played great and after that, the tie breaker was really bad.
Just this is your second time being defending champion at a major. Just wondering how much if at all that sort of status affected how you played. Um, I mean, I think at US Open it did a lot more, but honestly this time it didn't. I wasn't really nervous. I was nervous in my first round, but after that, I wasn't really nervous going into today um, and I wasn't really thinking about it. I think I learned from my US Open experience, so I don't really think it played a result like I played a part in the result today. Um, yeah, but I don't know. I think that's what's more frustrating cuz I feel like I learned a lot from that US Open
experience and I'm a better player from since then and I just don't think I portrayed that today. Okay.
