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DUBAI DUTY FREE TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS WOMENFebruary 20, 2013Serena WilliamsDUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES THE MODERATOR: Questions, please. Q. Can you explain what the injury is and when it occurred? SERENA WILLIAMS: Yeah. I just have had a lot‑‑ I've just had some back problems the past couple weeks. It didn't get better. I thought it would get better as the week went on, but it didn't. I don't want to keep pushing it and make it worse. Q. What happens now? How serious is it? Are you going to have to pull out of other tournaments? SERENA WILLIAMS: Well, my next tournament is actually in Miami. Q. So you have some time? SERENA WILLIAMS: I have a lot of time. And I think that's good, to get back and to get better. I'll be fine. Q. Have you been having treatment here to try to get ready to play? SERENA WILLIAMS: Yeah, I have been having treatment here as well as in Doha, and just the whole past two‑and‑a‑half weeks. But, yeah. So it's getting better but it's not at a level where I can compete where I feel comfortable to not make it worse. Q. I guess that's your concern is that if you get out there and have a tough match you could aggravate it to the point where you'd have to take time off or something like that? SERENA WILLIAMS: Exactly. I mean, words ‑‑ exactly what you just said. So, for me, I don't want to do that, and I think it will be a wise move actually not to do that. Q. Did Vika's withdrawal yesterday perhaps influence... SERENA WILLIAMS: No, not at all. Q. This is the second time, third time that you have been confirmed for this tournament and it hasn't happened? SERENA WILLIAMS: Isn't it? I feel terrible. I feel like that, so maybe three times, and maybe the next time will be a better time. Just horrible. Q. Seemed like last week the back never came up, but was that bothering you as well in Doha? SERENA WILLIAMS: Yeah, the whole time, as well as in Australia. Q. Because you injured it in Australia? SERENA WILLIAMS: Yeah, exactly. I had little to no time to get it better. So I'm just working on actually getting it better. So I just had to go back to back to back. Yeah. Q. What kind of treatment will you be doing? Anything with more rehab? SERENA WILLIAMS: Just a lot of rehab stuff, a lot of flexibility stuff, a lot, a lot of therapy and things of that nature. Q. You're confident by Miami you'll be... SERENA WILLIAMS: Oh, absolutely. I have no choice. So I figure like not only by then but hopefully sooner than that so I can start getting a really good training program going so I can get really, really fit and get ready for some other tournaments hopefully this year. Q. There are a lot of younger girls like Vika, for example, are finding it difficult to keep up with the schedule. Being the oldest world No. 1 and being of a similar age to Roger, do you think you need to be perhaps more selective going forward? SERENA WILLIAMS: Yeah, I definitely think I will be more selective going forward, you know, playing maybe less tournaments but really doing well like I have tried to be in those events. FastScripts Transcript by ASAP Sports |
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