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Saturday, September 7, 2013
Q. Obviously hasn't been your best you're year up to this point. What made
this tournament possible?
ANDREA HLAVACKOVA: I think it was very good that, you know, we got ourselves
together also health wise, because Lucie was injured a lot during the year.
That was important. And we clicked right away from the first match very well,
even though we had no matches to prepare for US Open. I mean, it's been a
great wave we have been riding these two weeks. I cannot describe how I feel.
今年的表现并不理想，Hradecka常受伤，美网前也没打热身赛，所以这两周很不简单。
Q. How much of that win over Venus and Serena yesterday gets you prepared
mentally, confidence wise, in dodging bullets at the net making it quicker?
ANDREA HLAVACKOVA: For today?
Q. Yeah.
ANDREA HLAVACKOVA: Honestly, I didn't think about it at all today. For me, it
didn't help much for today. It helped us to get through, and that's all.
Yesterday was a completely different match than today. We just knew that were
strong even in tough moments, so that's what we used today, I think.
LUCIE HRADECKA: Yeah.
Q. You not only won this for yourself, but won this for your country, the
Czech Republic. It's 4:00 a.m. over there when you finished. Some texts
coming in. Were they watching? Starting to celebrate?
LUCIE HRADECKA: Yeah, definitely. I got a lot of the message. One was our Fed
Cup captain that he write me. Okay, now we can go sleep, so well done
(smiling). I think a lot of people watch the TV, watch the screen, and I
think a lot of people is happy, are happy, because got the Grand Slam. It's
for like our small country something big.
Q. That match was up for grabs until the last two games. What happened those
last two games? What did you say to one another?
ANDREA HLAVACKOVA: I don't think we talked much. It was more about like
looking at each other and trusting each other on that return game. You know,
obviously at a close game you need me to get something on the deuce side to
give her a chance to close it. First she didn't close it but then she did. I
trusted her on that game because I knew she's been having great games
yesterday, and I was believing that she will play through today again. Then I
was confident on my serve.
Q. Going back to the semi just briefly, how important was that win for you?
Obviously one of the best teams. They have won like 12 Grand Slams together
and they beat you at Wimbledon and Olympic finals, as well. That had to be a
big one to finally get.
LUCIE HRADECKA: I think it was very important, because if we lost in
semifinal we cannot play the final, so definitely it was important (smiling).
ANDREA HLAVACKOVA: I think it was a great, you know, extra for this
tournament to also beat the Williams sisters, because it's something special
what didn't happen in our career yet. We had chances to face them so many
times. It's something like on top of the Grand Slam trophy, you know, that we
wanted really going through the best teams out there. We had the toughest
draw possible from the first round where we were beating players who beat us
on another Grand Slam. Beating Petrova Srebotnik was extremely tough match. I
would never take that for granted. Going against Williams sisters, it's
amazing.
Q. Are you going to have room in your luggage for both trophies?
ANDREA HLAVACKOVA: I remember from last year they send them, so I'm totally
fine (smiling). Even if I wouldn't I would pay extra luggage for trophy like
that.
Q. Yesterday after you won the mixed doubles with Max, you said you were
holding off the celebration. You weren't going to have any of your dad's
beer, who is a brewmaster. What about tonight? What's ahead?
ANDREA HLAVACKOVA: Tonight we gonna probably go to our friend's club and
really celebrate, because so far, after all of our successes, we never had a
chance to directly celebrate the great results. So today I said to Lucie,
We're going no matter what. I don't care your flight is in the morning. We're
just going go there and spin it.
(原来Hlavackova的爸爸是酿酒的)赛后一定会去庆祝一番。′
Q. Dance the night away?
ANDREA HLAVACKOVA: Yeah, yeah.
Q. After last year, you lost the final against Sara and Roberta. Lucie, how
did you feel that the mixed doubles title is half Andrea's? Andrea is playing
differently? Step on the court differently and the crucial moment playing
differently today or it helps?
LUCIE HRADECKA: I think this time I have to say, Andy, how she felt on court,
I felt she's confident. She trust herself on serve. I know if she will good
serve I can do my job on the net, like the fake or go for it. So I think we
work like great team today.
Q. You had a long wait today, long matches, delays. What was that like? What
were you doing to relax to stay focused to make the time go by?
ANDREA HLAVACKOVA: Well, I said to Lucie today before the doubles that it is
kind of a change for us, because we have been waiting whole day. There was no
weather issue, so we knew that we're gonna go play late, and we were ready.
We went to warm up twice, which helped us in the beginning of the match to be
really ready to go out there. I was feeling a bit tired today from
yesterday's two matches, big matches, and we knew that the atmosphere would
be a bit different than last night against Williams sisters when the crowd
was huge and pumped. But we made the crowd pumping in the end with the close
result. That actually helped.