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DUBAI DUTY FREE TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPSFebruary 18, 2015Garbine MuguruzaDUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES G. MUGURUZA/A. Radwanska THE MODERATOR: Questions, please. Q. It looked as if you enjoyed that out there today. GARBINE MUGURUZA: Yes, I enjoy. Sometimes you don't enjoy, but this time I did because I was playing really good. You know, I thought that if I continue playing like this eventually I would win the match so I was very happy. Q. What do you think you did particularly well? GARBINE MUGURUZA: Just be regular with my game, not to have ups and downs during the match, and be just concentrate during all the match. Q. When you come in to a tournament with so many top players, do you realistically think you have a chance of winning the final? GARBINE MUGURUZA:  I think that nowadays like there are so many girls that play so good that the difference between the top players and the other ones are really small, so I think that you have a chance if you work and play and be concentrate and do your game, I think you can beat them, yeah. Q. How much confidence do you take from beating someone like Aga, a top seed in this tournament, going forward? GARBINE MUGURUZA: Well, every match like this give you confidence and, you know, more like you get more mentally strong when you see that every time you play with top‑10 players you win or you make them suffer, you know. So this is my goal, you know, to play against these kind of players with respect, be aggressive, and try and win the match. Q. Are you feeling at this point your career is moving along how you wanted it to, like you're where you anticipated being at this point in time? GARBINE MUGURUZA: Well, I have been working really hard to be more regular. I think that I'm working really good. I'm having the, how you say, like when you like get‑‑ you work and then you got the good results? The payoff. I see I get the payoff for the work that I did, so yeah. It is what I'm looking forward to. Q. Did you ever live in Venezuela, or your mother is just Venezuelan? What's the deal? GARBINE MUGURUZA: My father is from Spain and my mother is from Venezuela. And I was born in Venezuela and with six years I went to Barcelona to practice. Q. And your family is where now, Spain? GARBINE MUGURUZA: In between, both. They are like traveling, and yeah. Q. You're kind of a citizen of both? GARBINE MUGURUZA: I'm what? Q. You're like a citizen of Venezuela and citizen of Spain? GARBINE MUGURUZA: Well, me more from Spain because I practice there. I don't go so much to Venezuela. Q. What's your passport? GARBINE MUGURUZA: Both. Q. Have you had a chance to look around Dubai? Have you done anything? GARBINE MUGURUZA: No. No, because I came three days before and I practice a lot. If I win matches I don't have time, so I hopefully don't go to visit. Q. How do you like the tournament? GARBINE MUGURUZA: It's good. It's nice. The hotel, the tennis center, it's really comfortable for the players. So it's good. Q. What do you think you need to improve in your game to move to the next level? GARBINE MUGURUZA: I think it's just be more mentally regular, try to like... Q. Regular? You mean consistent? GARBINE MUGURUZA: Yes, consistent in every round, not to have first round and second round and quarterfinals and first round. Try to get more like calm with your game and just be more, yeah, regular. Q. What do you like to do away from tennis? GARBINE MUGURUZA: Nothing, I think. I always‑‑ I'm always practicing or listening to music, watching TV. Yeah, 100% tennis. Q. When did you decide to play tennis? GARBINE MUGURUZA: Four years old, really small. Q. Where did you start? GARBINE MUGURUZA: Venezuela. I started there. Q. Why did you start playing tennis? Did your family play or you saw people play? GARBINE MUGURUZA: No. We went to a tennis club one day, a swimming pool and a country club, and there were tennis courts there and my parents said, Oh, you can start to play tennis. I think they are having fun. So me and my brother started to play, and look (smiling). FastScripts Transcript by ASAP Sports |
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