M. BARTOLI / A. Glatch
6-1, 6-1
THE MODERATOR: Questions.
Q. How has anything changed for you since Wimbledon till now?
MARION BARTOLI: Everything changed. First of all, of course, my
ranking. Ranking changed a lot because you have usually some byes
into the draw, you're getting later into the draw.
Of course, everybody knows me now. I have to do more distraction
outside of tennis. I like it. Otherwise I play really good. I feel
my tennis is really clicking together and I'm playing really well.
So this is the most important.
Q. Have you been able to do anything enjoyable while in New York?
Opportunities you may not have had before?
MARION BARTOLI: Usually I take those opportunities after the
tournament. When the tournament is finished, yes, I have some time
off. I'm really a shopping lover, so I have a lot of things to do in
New York for this.
But, you know, I make it when the tournament is finished. So I hope
in two weeks for me now.
Q. Are you doing anything interesting?
MARION BARTOLI: I'm usually going to Time Square Garden, see one
show, have some fun, go to the restaurants. And, of course, do a lot
of shopping.
Q. Nice way to start a Grand Slam tournament.
MARION BARTOLI: Yeah, of course, you know, I think she was a little
scary maybe. I don't know if she played the US Open before in the
woman's draw. When I was a wildcard, I was playing the French Open,
I remember I was really scared every time I was playing on court.
I think she was the same today. But, you know, she can hit the ball
pretty well and she can serve hard, and I think my game was just
right enough to beat her in an hour or so.
Q. Talk about the way you feel about this environment at the US
Open.
MARION BARTOLI: The US Open, right way the first time I played it in
'01 in the juniors, I won the juniors there. I feel so great the
first time I played there.
Each year it's happen something great to me, either in singles or in
doubles here. Something came out, came out always with a good result
in singles or in doubles. So I really love this, to play in those
courts.
First of all, the surface is fast and I like it. The atmosphere, you
know, stay in Manhattan, you can quit a bit from tennis and then
you're coming back, you turn it on again when you're in Flushing
Meadows. Those kind of breaks between the two, I like it also.
It's just a nice tournament for me to play and I really enjoy to be
in New York.
Q. Coming in off of a solid season, your own expectations of
yourself in this tournament?
MARION BARTOLI: My own expectation is to play the best as possible
and to try to win one matches after the other one. You cannot look
too far into the draw. Even Roger Federer doesn't know his second
round opponent.
You have to take it match after match, step after step. If you win
each match, you will go far. But you cannot look far before to play
the first matches.
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