1st Round
Anna Kournikova beaten by Iva Majoli
4:6, 6:4, 4:6
April 1, 2003
"It's a great match to build on."
"It's a huge step forward," Kournikova said. "In the last six months, I've only played five matches. How can I build on those five matches?"
"It's totally different practicing and playing matches. Now that I've played two matches in two weeks, I'm starting to get a sense of being in the moment."
"My commitment to tennis has always been there," Kournikova said. "I'm tired of saying that. I don't have to prove that to anybody."
"Could have, might have," Kournikova said about how the match might have been different had she started finding her game sooner.
"Obviously I came out and didn't play so well and she was playing great in the beginning."
"The main point of the match is that I took a big step from the way I played last week (a 6-1, 6-4 loss to Dinara Safina in the Nasdaq-100 Open). That was important for me. I was disappointed in the loss but, in the end, three or four points could have decided the match. She just played better."
"I just kind of said, 'OK you have lost the set,' and I became more aggressive," Kournikova said about the run after getting down 5-0.
"I kind of went for my shots more. I really had to find a way to stretch her out and kind of mix it up a little bit."
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