If you are not physically strong, it's difficult. But at the same time, I think you need something more than that; you need to vary your shots, as Justine has been able to do in Amelia or Charleston, where she beat her -- I can't remember where it was on clay. So you need this kind of thing. But of course if you're not fit, you'll never make it through.

It took me time to adjust and to realise it was not going to happen like it did in the juniors.

We all had, at some point, matches we should have won and we didn't and that's the game. That's just the way the sport is. Otherwise, if everything was written before, we don't need to play.

When you start off a new tournament, you want to do well.

You have to adjust to where you are but the French are all together - the guys and the women. It's good.

This trophy is so special in the world of tennis and it feels great.

Well, I guess I needed this tough first round to really put me into that tournament, to really erase what happened at Indian Wells, which is now the case, you know.