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Saturday, 27 January 2007, 05:21 GMT

Aussie Open day 13 quotes

Serena Williams

"Every match I write notes. Usually I write, 'Look at the ball, move forward, do this, do that.' Today I just had one word - Yetunde.

"I just said, 'Serena, this has to be motivating. This has to be more than enough to motivate me,' and I think it was."
Serena Williams on how the memory of her sister, who died in a shooting in 2003, inspired her to a third Australian Open title.

"When I win or lose, I always call my mum. She always tells me, 'Look, you got a tournament next week, you've got to focus on that'."
Maria Sharapova proves that mums are the same everywhere after being walloped by Serena Williams.

"I've said from the beginning when I'm playing well it's difficult for anyone to beat me because I have a unique style, a unique game. Tennis is what I was born to do."
The unique Serena explains her thrashing of Sharapova.

"I'm ready to start training on the clay already. I saw some things here I want to work on. I want to take my game to a new level - I'm ready to do that now."
Serena looks ahead to the French Open

"I'm surprised to see Fernando in the final."
Roger Federer gives his opponent Fernando Gonzalez an ego boost ahead of their final meeting.

"He's winning all the time. He has to lose sometime."
Fernando attempts to apply logic to the Federer phenomenon.

"I don't like it. I'll never like it. I don't think it's so necessary to have all this electronic stuff in tennis because it's going to be never ending."
Federer does his grumpy old man impression when asked about HawkEye.

"I want to congratulate these guys. They are both friends of ours, they're great doubles players, they are both legends. We were lucky today."
A gracious Mike Bryan downplays his and brother Bob's doubles win over Jonas Bjorkman and Max Mirnyi.



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