Soares/Makarova混雙冠軍訪問 - 網球 Tennis

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An interview with: EKATERINA MAKAROVA and BRUNO SOARES

Thursday, September 6, 2012

Q. How you both are feeling right now?

BRUNO SOARES: I'm very, very happy. Katia?

EKATERINA MAKAROVA: Me, too. I have, I don't know, have something
different feeling. (Laughter.)

BRUNO SOARES: Best feeling. It's good.

Q. Can you tell us a little bit more about how you two ended up actually
been playing together at the tournament this time?

BRUNO SOARES: We played twice, couple times. We know each other. I was
actually sad to play with Gajdosova, Australian girl, that I have been
playing with her. Katia actually asked me and I was sad. I told her that
unfortunately I couldn't do it and she decide not to play. But couple
minutes before the sign-in. I thought I was out with Gajdosova, and I started
like being for Katia, because with her I would be in. Five minutes to go, I'm
here in the referee's office and I find out Katia is practicing in the park.
So I had to run -- actually, my coach did that. He went running all the way
over there and talked to her and called me like 30 seconds to go and said,
You can sign. So very last minute, 11:59, I signed us in. I guess it work
out.

本來Soares是要和Gajdosova搭的，要報名時發現排名不夠，和Makarova搭的話就能打，
趕在最後時刻才報名。

Q. You seemed much more relaxed on court than Bruno. The end of the first
set seemed a little bit nervous, and also at the match tiebreak. You hold
things much better than him. Did you feel that?

BRUNO SOARES: The whole tournament.

EKATERINA MAKAROVA: Actually, no, I didn't feel that. I think I was more
nervous than Bruno in this match, for sure. The tiebreak first set and the
final tiebreak, I don't know, maybe I seem like too good, but inside I was
really nervous. Like when it was 8-4 for sure I started to be tight.

Makarova說自己只是外表看起來輕鬆冷靜，卻是緊張在心理。

Q. Did you expect that you can win such hard player as won Raymond who had
brothers Bryan?

BRUNO SOARES: Yeah, we knew we were pretty good team. When we saw the draw,
they made very tough for us. We didn't know really what to expect against
Mike and Lisa Raymond. Katia played them at Wimbledon. It wasn't that good,
but it was grass. It was different surface. We just came to play, tried to
do our best. After the first match we played really good, and we talked to
each other and said, If we keep playing like this, for sure we're going to
have a chance to win the title. That's what happened. We had an amazing
second round, and after that we knew it was just a matter of keep playing
good. We knew we were gonna have a chance.


Q. Bruno, what's her best shots, the best things she has on court?

BRUNO SOARES: Well, I think, I mean, overall she's very solid. She serves
well; she's lefty; she's got good hands; good volleys. But in mixed, one
thing that really helps us is because she returns really well. So I think we
managed to keep putting pressure even when the guy is serving. That's very
important in mixed. I mean, give us more room to work on our serve because
we don't serve that big. I'm not a huge server, so I have to work a lot on
my serve, as well, and Katia, too. So when we're returning good I think it
adds a lot to our service game. That's for me the best thing because she
keep putting pressure, I move forward the net, and that works well for both
of us.

Soares覺得Makarova非常穩，左手也有優勢，最重要的是她的回發球很好。

Q. Same question for you, too.

BRUNO SOARES: What do I do good?

EKATERINA MAKAROVA: Volleys, it's definitely volleys. Because I just
returning, and then Bruno did everything else, like close all the court.
(Laughter.) So I think in mixed for sure, like moving when the guy is
moving really good and volleys. I'm like I'm just standing there on the
baseline. (Laughter.)

Makarova覺得自己只要站在底線回球就好了，其他都交給Soares，特別是截擊。

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