GARBINE MUGURUZA

I like to dance to Latin music, like salsa, like reggaeton.

I think I'm always nervous, even if I play not on the center court.

I like Sergio Ramos, who plays Real Madrid.

To have Serena in the Wimbledon final, I think, is the hardest match you can have.

I let my racket do the talking.

I don't have superstitions because I think sometimes they work against you because, if something happens to disturb them, you feel nervous.

This is just a 'Boom!' of energy for me to win a Grand Slam.

It's true that my body's not small and my style is not defensive. I am aggressive, and I am tall.

To be able to make other girls play - and hopefully in Latin America as well - is very important to me.

I was about three years old when I started playing in Venezuela with my two older brothers. They're 12 and 11 years older, so I was always the little one.

It doesn't always work out that you win a tournament and then a Grand Slam, but I'm happy to have the confidence.

Is very hard to find, like, a recipe to feel good fitness-wise, tennistically, mentally.

I think people have this love-hate relationship with tennis. I also feel like that.

I try to focus on more winning matches here and try to go forward rather than the ranking because is the first step, to win matches, getting far in tournament, and we see after.

I always come very motivated to the Grand Slams.

It is hard because I have played since I was three years old, and everything is tennis, tennis. I am super-passionate about it. And I love it. But I always like to cook, I listen to music. I just try to be like a regular girl.

New York is a very tricky city. I find it very noisy. It's a jungle, and it's very stressful at times, but I'm ready for it.

Sometimes when you go into the match, you want it so badly. I think sometimes is tricky. It makes you a little bit, like, tense and nervous.

A lot of people were saying, 'I think you will play good on grass,' and I'm like, 'There's no way. I hate grass. I'm horrible.'

You can have a couple of games where you play bad or very good. I think I'm a type of player that days before I know how I feel, if I'm playing good, if I'm playing bad. This is not like lottery here.

I was like, 'Did I win Roland Garros? What happened?'

My father is Spanish, and he went to Venezuela looking for a job. He was 20 something, and he fell in love with a Venezuelan girl. He owns a company there, producing iron and bronze.

I don't know a lot of people who achieve what they have really dreamed of as a little girl.

Once you step on the court, you see the crowd, you see the final, you see I'm here playing another Wimbledon final.

I started in a very small tennis club in a South American country where I never thought about becoming the best tennis player.