WIMBLEDON

June 24, 2004

Anastasia Myskina

THE MODERATOR: Questions for Anastasia.

ANASTASIA MYSKINA: I would say it was really bad game because -- maybe because of the condition, maybe because I'm, you know, yesterday I didn't practice at all because of the weather. I didn't want to hit indoor. And I'm a little bit tired after the French Open. You know, it was really hard. Kapros play -- I don't think she play bad. She play pretty good for her game. I wasn't surprised that she can hit the ball as hard as she did today. So that's the thing.

ANASTASIA MYSKINA: Yeah, that was hard, as well, because I was here like whole day. I was really tired at the end of the day. You have to fight. You know, you have to play because right now, every girl really want to beat you. They want to play good against you, so you have to try even harder. And it was hard.

ANASTASIA MYSKINA: The one thing I think was my serve was pretty good, so it really give me confidence in my serve because I won lot of points on my serve. But in the game, I can't say really a lot of confidence. I'm just really happy I went through this match.

ANASTASIA MYSKINA: Venus.

ANASTASIA MYSKINA: You know, Sprem, she's really dangerous on the grass, and clay. She hit the ball unbelievably hard. I can't say whether I prefer Sprem or Venus right now. I just know this girl coming and she going to be pretty good.

ANASTASIA MYSKINA: Yeah, definitely would be like -- even would be three weeks, it would be much better, because then you can play something before Wimbledon. I couldn't play because I was really exhausted. So, yeah, I prefer longer time between the Grand Slams.

ANASTASIA MYSKINA: Definitely we talk about that. But, you know, the schedule pretty tough because of the Olympic Games this year. You know, it's hard to move the tournaments because they every year the same week. Of course, they think about it, but it's pretty tough for them.