WIMBLEDON

June 29, 2002

Justine Henin

MODERATOR: Shall we start in English.

JUSTINE HENIN: Happy to be in the fourth round, that the first week was finally good. You know, just a victory was the most important today, and I did it. It's hard to play someone that you don't know. I didn't know anything from this player. She was hitting the ball so hard, so it was sometimes difficult to find rhythm. But it's okay, 6-4, 6-4. Enough (smiling).

JUSTINE HENIN: Yeah, she did. Yeah, she started to play better. I lost a little bit my aggressivity. Like I said, it's hard when someone is hitting so hard the ball. You don't have a lot of rallies, so it was sometimes difficult, because it was a winner and then three mistakes. So it was hard. But yeah, she gave everything she had. She had nothing to lose. It's okay, at 4-All I played better. That's okay.

JUSTINE HENIN: No, I never felt that I could go in three sets. Everything can happen for sure. When she broke back at 4-3 to go to 4-All, I stayed calm and said, "Okay, it's 4-All."

JUSTINE HENIN: And then it finished very quickly. I played good at 4-All, just kept my serve. So that was good.

JUSTINE HENIN: Yeah, it's hard, qualifier, third one. It happens more often now. I didn't know anything about her. You have to play on the Centre Court against a young player that's coming. She had nothing to lose. So, yeah, I think we will see in the next months a lot of these kind of players. It's going to be more difficult.

JUSTINE HENIN: Yeah, for sure. I was in this kind of situation two years ago when I had to play in the French Open against Lindsay. I lost 7-5 in the third. That was my first close match against a top player. A long way since that.

JUSTINE HENIN: Now I will just try, like I said, to be focused on my next round on Monday. I think Dementieva won. It's going to be a tough match because, you know, Elena, she's a top player, and she's hitting hard also the ball. She's in the Top 15. She's a young player. She will have nothing to lose. Especially on grass, she's playing very fast, so it's going to be a difficult match.

JUSTINE HENIN: I played Dementieva in the Australian Open. I won in two sets. It's going to be, for sure, a different match. Another tournament, a different surface, so I think I will just see on Monday what's going to happen.