U.S. OPEN

Q. You're now two for two in Grand Slam events. How are you feeling about that?

Q. Any nerves?

Q. You said it's a normal tournament, but it's really not the kind of normal tournament that you play. Are you distracted by all the people around, the noise?

Q. When you served for the match at 5-Love, second set, you rushed to the net on the second point as if you were in a hurry to get it over, then you lost the game. Were you too quick at that point? Were you rushing the game?

Q. You don't think you were in too much of a hurry at that point?

Q. Your game seems to be in transition right now. You're trying to become more of a full-court player, do more things. Can you talk about some of the things Nick is working on with you?

Q. Not hitting the ball as flat perhaps?

Q. For people who have never seen you, might not have seen you, what are your strengths? What do you think you do best out there and to get better, where do you have to get better?

Q. Learn what?

Q. It seems amazing that you've been playing tennis in the public eye for almost six years. One wonders what you think you're missing from your teenage years that other girls or boys might be gaining not playing tennis.

Q. Do you have time to go out?

Q. Some players doesn't go out.

Q. Apart from this Tour, what is your timetable? Do you have in your mind set when you want to be Top 20 or Top 10, win a title? Do you think about those things?

Q. Anna, when you were quite young, 10 or 11 years old, you got an extraordinary amount of publicity for someone so young. Many of the articles portrayed you as a little spoiled, a little arrogant. I'm wondering whether now five years later you regret having been portrayed that way, whether you've changed?

Q. Anna, your coach Nick and your support staff has always told you you could be a world champion, how good you could be, but the most important thing is when you start to realize that. Have you realized that yet, that you could be a world champion?

Q. Where is your confidence right now?

Q. What about studies? Are you doing any study courses by correspondence?

Q. Perhaps one of the low points in your tennis career came here two years ago when you played Martina Hingis in the final of the junior tournament and were beaten very badly. Can you tell us a little bit about how you felt, what your feelings were after that match?

Q. What was the low point then in your career?

Q. You and Martina and Venus Williams are in a group. Do you think one of you or maybe a couple of you, how long do you think it would be take for you to be at the top of tennis?

Q. By 18 would you hope maybe some of you could be there?

Q. Do you have role models, somebody you base your career on?

Q. When did you actually start playing, Anna, and how? How old were you and how did it come about?

Q. Why? Did somebody else in your family play, your dad or mom?

Q. Did you immediately like tennis?

Q. What do you like about the game?

Q. Are both your parents able to be here at the US Open?

Q. Do you remember at what point you went from being just another kid playing tennis to someone who was going to dedicate a lot of their time and energy?

Q. Do you think sometimes the media builds young players up way too high and puts great expectations on young players who have early success who may or may not develop into great pros?

Q. Would you prefer it be another way? Would you prefer not being up there answering all these questions, just sort of be another player who doesn't have this glare cast upon her?

Q. During your match today, you were talking to yourself a lot of the time. Is that normal?

Q. A long time for the year you stay in Russia?

Q. For every year.

Q. You like the publicity, don't you, Anna, to have people know that you could be, as you say, an actress perhaps one day or a star tennis player?

Q. Can you tell us a little bit about yourself off the court, what sort of things you like doing in your leisure time?

Q. How many regular Tour events are you able to play under the age restriction rule?

Q. Where will you play the rest of the year, just challengers?

Q. Are you going to hockey match Russia-USA?

Q. Are you going to the hockey match?

Q. How often are you in Russia? Do you feel Russian or American? You've been here so long now.

Q. Nick said sometimes he thinks you might practice too much. Do you feel that way?

Q. What separates yourself from Steffi, where you are now to the very top?

Q. What separates yourself from Steffi, where you are now to the very top?

Q. Physically?

Q. There was one point in the match today in the first set 3-Love, a breakpoint for you, when the judge or umpire overruled the calling and you lost two games in a row after that. How much does that affect you right now when somebody does something not your way?

Q. Back to that Hingis final a couple of years ago. Here you are in the final of a junior tournament, US Open. I know you must have had high expectations of doing well. To lose that badly, did it tell you how far you had to go to catch up with Martina, who was a contemporary of yours?

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