THE CHAMPIONSHIPS

July 6, 2025

Laura Siegemund

Press Conference

L. SIEGEMUND/S. Sierra

6-3, 6-2

THE MODERATOR: Well done today. Would you just tell us a little bit about the match.

LAURA SIEGEMUND: Yeah, I'm super happy with my performance. I mean, I'm obviously very happy with how I played, with the outcome of the match.

I expected a very physical match. She's a great athlete and is moving the ball really well. I think, yeah, I managed to serve well and be aggressive early in the points. Yeah, it was not easy with the on and off of the rain.

But overall, yeah, I was super happy with how I managed also the tough moments, the small, tough moments in the match.

THE MODERATOR: Questions, please.

Q. You just spoke about the match, but overall, about the moment, about where you are right now, about your celebrations, what are you feeling?

LAURA SIEGEMUND: I feel really joy and pride because I try very much to, you know, not get overly excited because I can do that after the tournament, but right now I feel like I still have a job to do, and it's not done yet. However far it may take me, you know, that doesn't matter.

But, you know, you're tempted to get so euphoric and so happy about what you've achieved, but you know, there is a time for that at a different point.

So right now I was just very focused on my job, very focused on my game because there are always things that I think I can do better, and very focused on my opponent, that next one that I have. That's what I did a very good job with.

Then, of course, once the match is over, you have this quick moment of just pure joy and just, yeah, pride about how you managed and how well you managed. That's then coming out.

Q. You mentioned your next opponent. Now you have a next opponent who is in a different strata perhaps. What are your thoughts?

LAURA SIEGEMUND: Yeah, I haven't thought much about it yet. You know, obviously she's one of the greatest players that we have and one of the most aggressive also. The only good thing about that match is that I have absolutely nothing to lose. But it's definitely, you know, one of the toughest opponents I think to have on grass.

Q. Your game looks so natural for grass with the slices and the drop shots. This is the first time that you've gone deep at Wimbledon or even any grass court event. How do you explain that? Was it because you weren't comfortable on it in the past? Can you explain the process of getting comfortable on it.

LAURA SIEGEMUND: Yeah, you know, in the past I usually had a really long clay season, because clay was always my best season. So I would keep the grass court season really short and sometimes play only one preparation before Wimbledon or even there were years I think where I had no preparation before Wimbledon.

Then it's tough to practice. I always felt on grass that by the time I start to feel the game and I start to play better, it's already over. That was how it pretty much went every year.

So I did feel that I have good stuff for grass. I like to come to the net. I love to come to the net. Love the slice. But I felt like I never have really enough time to kind of get confidence from my grass game, and maybe the precision here and there and when to do what.

This time that I had already a few matches in Nottingham, and I felt that I had more matches, and I had more opportunity to get this confidence, and it's showing, yeah.

Q. So your opponent just said that she said that she doesn't like the way you play because you are using many slices and change the direction quite often. Does it come naturally, or did you try to make your opponent a little bit annoyed with the way that you play?

LAURA SIEGEMUND: No, I mean, it's my game. I think, yeah, there are quite a lot of players that don't like it because it's very unusual. But that's the good thing about it, you know? I think I played well, and I mix it with aggressiveness, so that makes it, yeah, more difficult to play against.

But in a way it's natural because I always, you know, played, like, a very variable game or with different -- a lot of variety. But I think over the past few years I added a lot of, you know, aggression and really aggressive hitting from the baseline as well, which maybe in my earlier years was not my strength.

Yeah, also fast surfaces are becoming more natural for me.

Q. You said on court you described yourself as a fighter and you are known as someone who doesn't take a backwards step. Do you enjoy the confrontation with other players, the fact that you're not going to back down?

LAURA SIEGEMUND: Yeah, I mean, that's why I'm in this job, no, because I like the confrontation. I mean, every match is a battle. I don't know if I'm understanding the question right, but just the...

Q. There have been tensions sometimes between you and your opponents, but that feels like something maybe you relish.

LAURA SIEGEMUND: What do you mean exactly?

Q. Say with Badosa, there was a match a few years ago or Coco, but that was more with the crowd. Do you like the sort of confrontational element of it?

LAURA SIEGEMUND: No, no. I thought confrontation you mean the battle between the players. No, I mean, these are some matches where, you know, things happen. I mean, every match is different. What you mentioned, that were some special cases. No, I don't necessarily like or seek to make trouble. You know, that's not my goal.

I know that I have some very controversial, like, habits, let's say. The only thing that I can say about them, they are really about me. I don't try to disturb anyone, although that might be interpreted like that.

But I have my weird stuff going on. I've been doing it all my life. I was always slow, talking about time violations and stuff. That's nothing that just got invented now, you know.

I'm pretty consistent with my weirdness that I have, let's say (laughing). It's nothing. I do it for me and not against other ones, but it does lead to confrontation sometimes. Then I'm just, like, Well, that's how I am.

Q. With someone like Aryna, some players give the top players maybe too much respect. When you play someone like that, what's your sort of approach?

LAURA SIEGEMUND: I just kind of always do my thing, you know what I mean? I don't change my time or how I behave on the court depending on who I have on the other side. That then maybe sometimes some people feel like it should be changing because I'm playing against them, but really, I'm just doing my stuff that I feel comfortable with and that works for me. I try to, you know, be within the rules, and that's it. I don't change it according to who I play.

Q. To what degree are you surprised where you are right now and having this opportunity in your next match?

LAURA SIEGEMUND: Of course, I am surprised. Like, if you would have told me I play quarterfinals here, I would have never believed it. That's clear.

On the other hand, it's a very simple math always in tennis. It's like you have an opponent. Either you find good solutions and you execute well, you go forward, or you don't, and you don't go forward. So it's very simple.

As I said after big wins before, I have this game and this maybe boldness -- I don't know if that's the right word in English -- to take out big names. I've always had that, just maybe because I don't care who is on the other side. In a positive, respectful way I don't care.

I'm just focusing on me and on my job. That's it. I don't play against a name. I play against someone who plays in a certain style.

Maybe that's the secret why I play good against good people, I don't know. For me, this week I've just been playing good tennis. I've been executing the stuff that I can play well, and that's the reason why I went forward.

Am I surprised about that? Of course. But on the other hand, not because I know if I do certain things well, I will go forward.