QUOTES
SERENA Q. What about the No. 1? Safina now is the No. 1.
SERENA WILLIAMS: (Laughing.)
Q. It’s a new question, no?
SERENA WILLIAMS: Well, I’m excited for her.
Q. Who do you think is the real No. 1 today? Is Safina or it’s Serena, it’s…
SERENA WILLIAMS: Well, we all know who the real No. 1 is.
Q. A lot people think that if Serena dedicate all of her time to tennis and nobody can beat her. How do you feel?
SERENA WILLIAMS: I dedicate a lot of time to tennis, and I dedicate a lot time to other things. So, you know, I have to do what’s best for me. Right now, I’m doing that.
Quite frankly, I’m the best in the world.
DINARA Q. No. 1 in the world means something special for you, or it’s a normal situation?
DINARA SAFINA: Well, I think it’s not really normal when somebody becomes No. 1. If it would be normal, then many players would get it.
Just, you know, sometimes I think about it, and just last year just in one year how everything changed to make such a jump from 17 ranked and to become No. 1 is just amazing. I don’t know how many other players can do this like I did it.
It just really like sometimes it’s thanks for all the patience that I had and all the hard work I was giving just paid me off. Now, I’ll try to work hard and to get the Grand Slam, you know. This is my next goal, to get one of the Grand Slams.
Q. Do you feel in your head like you’re the world’s best player at the moment? The rankings say you are. Do you feel in your head that you are?
DINARA SAFINA: It’s still tough to realize this, because I’ve been so far like — I mean, just in one year everything changed. You know, if I would be like consistently like already top 5 player, but I just made such a huge jump in one year.
I still like cannot really realize that, yes, I did it, you know. But, I mean, I guess like the results, I mean, it’s not luck that. Nobody gave it to me. I prove it. I played two Grand Slam finals, and last year I won four titles.
I mean, there was a stage where maybe I won like twenty matches I lost one match, so I think I belong to this, because this doesn’t come out of sky.
Q. Serena sat here about an hour ago and said, We all know who is the best player in the world, and frankly it’s me.
DINARA SAFINA: (Laughter.)
Q. What do you think about that? Do you think that’s provocation, or…
DINARA SAFINA: Okay, I mean, she can say this because she won like many more Grand Slams than me. But she’s also older than me so she has more experience than me.
So let’s see when I’m gonna be at her age how many titles I’m gonna have, and then we can say.
i can clearly see who was being the arrogant one