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Daria Kasatkina: «I love packed stadiums!»

Daria Kasatkina: «I love packed stadiums!»

October 17, 11:30 PM

At the press-conference held after her thrilling match against Alizé Cornet, the Russian Daria Kasatkina explains what helped her to beat the French and expressed her love for the crowd.

What motivated you during the match to try to catch up your opponent? You were always trailing throughout the whole match!

Well, I assume, I always play tennis like that! (laughter) To be honest, today Cornet started the match really well. I was not ready for that, that is why I had to change something.

What was the role of the crowd support in your victory? Do you like crowded tribunes?

I love it! Today, of course, the stadium was not fully packed, but there were a lot of people. It was very nice, it's great to play in such atmosphere! I think, nobody likes to play in front of an empty stadium, especially me. I love prime-time, center court – that is just the moment to show my signature game!

Did you like how your fans cheered for you throughout the match? There was that man sitting close to the court shouting and applauding really hard!

Yeah! Ithink, he was wearing a grey sweater. He was cheering me up great! He is awesome.

When your coach Phillip Dehas came on court, he used a very creative approach – is he always as creative as today when he is trying to help you?

Yes, he is very creative, sometimes just ...overcreative, so to speak. Sometimes his ideas “knock me out”, they help a lot during a match. Especially during this fight: I was in such unstable emotional state when I requested to see him, I really needed his support. I told him: “You can shout at me, do anything at all — take me out of this state!”. He did it!

At one moment it was obvious that Cornet was really nervous, did you take it as a sign it was the right time to finish off your opponent?

I am trying not to pay attention to it, because everybody starts to play differently in a nervous state – somebody better, somebody worse. I am trying to focus only on myself and the way I play.

What can you say of your upcoming match with Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova?

I think we meet on court only here! I don’t know, it is going to be our third match against each other in the framework of “VTB Kremlin Cup”, for the record, I took part in five of them. It seems, nothing new is going to happen, we just gonna come out on the court and play.

Before this emotional and a very good match, it was clear that at the end of the season you lacked mental strength, is it true?

Yes, itr's true. The end of my season was a bit marred. Iwas rady foer that because I had a very busy mid-season, it was tough, I had a downward slope during the American-Asian series but I think it will change as I get more experience.

An abstract question that is not related to tennis: you are a creative player, you like to vary your game, but do you show this creativity in other fields of life?

If only there would be other areas! (laughter) In my fashion style my creativity doesn’t really manifest itself, but the videos that we shoot with Daria Gavrilova - that's where you can see my creative side!

Have you ggreed on the next episode with her?

Not yet. We have suspended our "activity". We decided to focus more on tennis (laughter).

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