I just thought at Wimbledon I was very nervous.
— Garbine Muguruza
This is just a 'Boom!' of energy for me to win a Grand Slam.
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.
When I came to Spain, I joined a tennis academy, and that was where I learnt the game.
You can have a couple of games where you play bad or very good. I think I'm a type of player that days before I know how I feel, if I'm playing good, if I'm playing bad. This is not like lottery here.
I think I'm always nervous, even if I play not on the center court.
I adapt more to the match for the second set.
Is very hard to find, like, a recipe to feel good fitness-wise, tennistically, mentally.
I always travel with my coach and with my physio. And then when I'm in Europe, my parents, maybe they come to events.
If you want to win a Grand Slam, when you dream, you say, 'I want Serena in the final.'
For me, it has an extra value to be able to beat the Williams sisters in the finals, because they are just so good. For me, it's proof of being literally the best player in the tournament.
I have routines but not superstitions.
The best thing is being part of history and achieving something you've dreamed of.
I moved to Spain, and at all the tournaments I'd play, I would be really good in my age. That made me realize that I could be a pro.
People only see two hours of a tennis match where you're fighting and running and sometimes getting upset. There's a lot more than those two hours. Going out there and playing is actually the easy part.
When you're a kid and practice on clay, you're always, 'Oh, I wish I could win Roland Garros.'
It's so rewarding to succeed in what you like to do that you don't really think about what you have to give up.
I was about three years old when I started playing in Venezuela with my two older brothers. They're 12 and 11 years older, so I was always the little one.
My father is Spanish, and he went to Venezuela looking for a job. He was 20 something, and he fell in love with a Venezuelan girl. He owns a company there, producing iron and bronze.
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 try to focus on more winning matches here and try to go forward rather than the ranking because is the first step, to win matches, getting far in tournament, and we see after.
If I lose the first set, I still have two more. Let's not make a drama, you know.
I always come very motivated to the Grand Slams.
The problem we have in the WTA circuit is that the girls do not have a good relationship because we play against each other, and it's a sport.
To have Serena in the Wimbledon final, I think, is the hardest match you can have.
To be able to make other girls play - and hopefully in Latin America as well - is very important to me.
I don't have superstitions because I think sometimes they work against you because, if something happens to disturb them, you feel nervous.
Once you step on the court, you see the crowd, you see the final, you see I'm here playing another Wimbledon final.
I was always following my brothers. If my brothers hadn't played, I never would have picked up a racket. Tennis isn't the most popular sport in Venezuela.
I prefer to be hunted compared to the other way around... I don't know how you say it.
The first tournament I ever played, I won. I was six years old.
It's true that my body's not small and my style is not defensive. I am aggressive, and I am tall.
I like to dance to Latin music, like salsa, like reggaeton.
When you're tired, you say, 'Hey, I need to rest from tennis or something.'
All I want is to win matches, and the ranking sooner or later will come.
I'm happy that once again I see myself winning a Grand Slam, something that is so hard to do.
When I was young, I looked up to Martina Hingis.
I didn't play juniors, really. I only played Roland Garros juniors and maybe some European tournaments.
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.
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!'
I don't know a lot of people who achieve what they have really dreamed of as a little girl.
I let my racket do the talking.
I started in a very small tennis club in a South American country where I never thought about becoming the best tennis player.
