Garbine Muguruza

“The first tournament I ever played, I won. I was six years old.”

“It is a time for women's tennis to return to the light, as it were, and be on a par with men's tennis, which is at a very high level.”

“If you want to win a Grand Slam, when you dream, you say, 'I want Serena in the final.'”

“I just make sure that people around me are fine. There is not a lot I can do anymore. Just support the people. Be with them. But at the end, I've got to go play. And after, we can talk again. But I have to kind of block it for two hours.”

“I couldn't be accepted into tennis school because I was too young. I had to wait a year until I was four before they'd accept me.”

“Who would I think is the favorite? Well, to be honest, I think the top players. We are all very close, very equal.”

“I don't have superstitions because I think sometimes they work against you because, if something happens to disturb them, you feel nervous.”

“To be able to make other girls play - and hopefully in Latin America as well - is very important to me.”

“If I lose the first set, I still have two more. Let's not make a drama, you know.”

“That's my every day: putting things aside and going out there and have two hours of concentration of tennis.”

“Sometimes when you go into the match, you want it so badly. I think sometimes is tricky. It makes you a little bit, like, tense and nervous.”

“I learned that if you want something, you've got to really go for it, try to put the nerves aside.”

“When you're tired, you say, 'Hey, I need to rest from tennis or something.'”

“There's no room for being disappointed or for excuses, 'Oh, I had four match points.'”

“The best thing is being part of history and achieving something you've dreamed of.”

“If you want to be one of the best players, everything is hard.”

“I just think I play better in the greater scenarios. I just get motivated. I like the big crowds on the centre courts.”

“When you win, everything is so beautiful, and when you don't, it's not, so everything is darker.”

“It's like if you have a bad day and you don't change your mindset, even if you go to buy bread at the supermarket, like, everything is so bad. It happens. I'm very negative. You have to change it.”

“When a kid comes next to you, and she's like 'Ooh, one day I want to be like you!' you're like 'Wow, that's so nice to hear!'”