I lost easy in Seoul [6-3, 6-2], but all the games were really close. I just couldn’t win the crucial points. I have to be aggressive tomorrow.

I completely lost my rhythm after missing that smash,

It wasn’t until I actually shook my opponent’s hand that I felt I had won the match.

I was really thinking about quitting,

It’s always difficult playing a strong player like Anastasia so I am pretty relieved to win and make the quarter-finals here.

I won my first match of the year here last night and that really gave me a lot of confidence. Today I just focused on myself, on my rhythm, and not on my opponent. That...

I’ve seen her play better than today. She was thinking smart at the beginning. But maybe the concentration wasn’t great today, up and down. I tried to just play every point and focus.

Whenever we have the Olympics or the Fed Cup, our schedule becomes very tight and I couldn’t play the last couple of years. Everything is fine with me this year.

My serve wouldn’t go in. It was a very frustrating game,

I moved well in the first set but then I found that I was unable to attack as we went into the second set, … She kept me back (on the baseline) and that’s not...

She set a slow pace and I got kind of trapped into it. In the second set, I picked up the pace and that forced her to start making errors. My shots weren’t so good,...

I think it’s going to be a tough match,