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Q. Bad luck, Robby. You seemed to have things under control at the end of the second set. What switched it around?

ROBBY GINEPRI: Little unlucky not to win the first set. I thought I outplayed him. Just didn't capitalize on breakpoints. Obviously the second set turned it around a little bit. I think he started missing a little bit more and I was finding my rhythm.

Then I guess beginning of the third set I was up 30 Love in that first service game, and I slipped on the overhead at 15 30, and, you know, did a few pushups; never doing those again on court. I think that kind of changed the momentum a little bit.

I don't know. It was just a tough way to go out in the third. And the fourth set, was little unhappy with how it ended.

Q. You're the last of the Mohicans for the Americans. Did you picture anything like that when you started the tournament?

ROBBY GINEPRI: Not really. You don't go into a tournament hoping you're the last American. If it works out that way, fine. If not, you know, you just try to worry about yourself.

There are so many tough matches you have to get through in a Grand Slam. Three out of five, anything is possible. Just worked out that I was the last American again.

Q. Comparing to your first set, you especially struggled more in the second set. It looked like some Bermuda Triangle there. What happens? A physical thing or...

NOVAK DJOKOVIC: Why do we have we keep on getting back on negative things, you know? Always struggle, struggle, struggle. I won the match. That's what happened. I think I finished in a good way with a lot of winners and aggression and the game that is recognized when I'm on the court.

It's in my style, and I just need to be aggressive from the start and keep on playing all the way. Of course, I did have some ups and downs, and you could see that in second set. But, you know, you cannot always perform 100% in every single point. So it happens.

‘Some of the tennis girls, they’re sluts. They go with every guy and make such a bad name for themselves – and you don’t want to be known for stuff like that. You want to be more discreet.’

‘We’re tucked in by 10pm. My coach knows I’m sensible. I don’t like the taste of alcohol and I hate smoke. Some go to nightclubs, but I’m not interested. Yes there are moments when you speak to your old friends, and they’re all going out to parties every weekend, and I’m stuck in Paris boring my brains out. It’s so much fun (here). We all know each other so well. I’m known as the Gossip Queen, but I’m careful never to repeat a word.’

O Safinu: ‘He’s phenomenally good-looking. But he’s old – he’s 30.’

O Mareju i Hopman kupu: ‘The winning trophy had 52 diamonds on it. We (the Great Britain team) would have got it if only he’d won his singles match, so we can blame Andy for that – now he owes me diamonds.’

Q. In the entire third set you played incredible tennis. I mean, you are very aggressive, very long. I don't recall you playing that incredible game here. You definitely can win the French Open if you play like that, don't you think?

MARIA SHARAPOVA: Can you come to every press conference of mine? (laughter.)

God. Yeah, but, you know, not enough on this particular day. You know, I definitely played some good tennis, but it wasn't enough to win the match. At the end of the day, no matter how good or bad you play, you know, she's the one with the W.

Q. Coming back last year, the US Open maybe wasn't where you'd be your best. And this year you got the bad luck with Kirilenko, kind of a funny dynamic in the first round in Australia, and then you get Justine here in the third. How do you feel going forward, having that little bit of misfortune just with who you kind of got in the tournaments this year, the Grand Slams?

MARIA SHARAPOVA: That's the way sport is. That's the way tennis is.

I mean, you know, the match before us was Dementieva and Scheepers; it was a fourth round to get in the quarterfinal. I'm happy to be going out and playing Justine and a former champion and someone that I know, you know, who we've had great matches against.

I love the challenge of going out there and playing against her. No matter if it's the first round, if it's the final, it doesn't really matter. We have to be ready, you know, from the first match on.

If we're not ready to beat someone in the first match, I mean, I'm not gonna be ready to beat them in the final. You have to be mentally prepared for every match for your opponent to come out and play their best tennis.

Q. Do you have a feeling your game is back to the same level it was before you retired?

JUSTINE HENIN: Um, I don't want to compare, because everything is so different. I'm not yet as consistent as I was, because it's normal. It's only a few tournaments I've played. The confidence I had at that time, I built it with many years.

So I still need some time. I just said when I started I said, It's going to be a year of transition. I still think it, even if I had good results from the beginning of the season.

I have really ambitions to go as far as possible, but I'm also conscious that I'll have to work hard on my intensity, my concentration, and just to be more consistent all the time. So I know there are still ups and downs, and I'll work on it. But I knew it and I accept it. I have to keep working.

Q. Nine years ago you reached the quarterfinal here. Now you're in quarterfinal again. Did you imagine that you would have to wait so long?

FRANCESCA SCHIAVONE: (Smiling.) Sometimes you wish to do something, but you don't do it. So I think it was a long wait, but now I can feel it more. So I'm happy that happen.

Q. What did you make of Andy's body language? Sometimes he seemed to be getting quite fed up. Did that help you in any way?

TOMAS BERDYCH: Well, actually, I didn't look at him at all, I mean, since the first point that we just make a toss on the net. Just went to the baseline. That was maybe the last time I just like saw him between the points.

Because, yeah, my coach told me that when the match was suspended that, you know, he's looking like he doesn't want to play or some I don't know. Whatever. It's just maybe just ask him.

Maybe that's his style, you know, that he wants to like make the opponent, I don't know, to sleep or whatever, and then he just come and win the points, whatever it is. But it doesn't work today for him, and I'm happy for it.