S. Stosur - 16.01.2013

J. ZHENG/S. Stosur
6-4 1-6 7-5

Q.  What were you thinking when you were 5 2 up coming out to serve?
SAMANTHA STOSUR:  Well, thought about what I needed to do, about wanting to make a lot of first serves, really just keep playing the way I'd been playing.
You know, from that second set through to that point of the third, you know, I was obviously winning most of the games from that point on.
You know, there were some tight ones, but I thought I had really good rhythm.  Then all of a sudden it obviously went away quite quickly.

Q.  Did you find your body language changed during that game?
SAMANTHA STOSUR:  Yeah, you make an error and you tighten up a little bit, but you try and reset and refocus before that next point.
You know, unfortunately it was it just kept happening point after point after point.  You know, then crazy things start popping into your head, and before you know it, you're back on even terms and really lost a lead that, you know, with two breaks in the third should never go away.

Q.  How much of it was mental as opposed to physical?
SAMANTHA STOSUR:  Oh, I think it's a hundred percent.  I think, yeah, that's what it was.  I got tight and then you start missing some balls.  You probably think a little bit too much.  You do it over and over and over again, and then, yeah, you start not wanting to miss rather than wanting to, you know, make the winner.
Instead, it's I don't want to make the error.

Q.  Do you think you choked?
SAMANTHA STOSUR:  I don't know.  Whatever word you want to put on it.  At 5 2 up in the third, double break probably is a bit of a choke, yeah.