Three-time champ Iga Swiatek faces surprise package Jasmine Paolini, competing in her first grand slam final.
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00:00I'm proud of myself that I'm, you know, playing consistently here and that I'm, you know,
00:08mentioning the same sentence as Rafa, that's cool.
00:11I don't know, it seems something impossible, you know.
00:30This surface makes my game better.
00:38I have my, you know, grip allows me to spin more.
00:42I can play more defense points because it's a bit slower, but on the other hand I have
00:47also more time to attack sometimes, so I feel like I'm just using it well.
01:01It's hard not to see, you know, what's at stake and what the atmosphere is around these
01:05matches, so still I'm not, like, used to it.
01:22For me it's surprising to see, you know, interviews from Noale when I was a kid saying
01:29that he wanted to be world number one and win, and I watched this and I said it's unbelievable
01:38that you can dream as a child.
01:40I never dreamed to be, I think, in the Grand Slam final and I'm here and I'm so happy,
01:48but it's something different.
01:50I'm a different kind of person, I think.
02:00Iga is an unbelievable player, as I said, so young but so many achievements, Grand Slams.
02:09We played a long time ago, so I need to prepare tactically and see what her game is at now,
02:16you know, because for sure she's playing, she has the best season.