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01/31/2010 09:01:09 AM

Nike.
Q. Do people like it? Have you had good feedback about it?
RAFAEL NADAL: You can ask the people.

Q. Are you a good cook?
DINARA SAFINA: I'm just starting, you know. Until now nobody got sick, so this is the positive. They might like, not like, but if they have problems with the stomach, it's not good. But until now, nobody would complain about the stomach.

Q. Have you ever played with anyone else in doubles?
SERENA WILLIAMS: I have. I played, believe it or not, with Martina Navratilova. That was after the comeback, just FYI, it wasn't when she was No. 1. I'm not that old.

Q. You recently tweeted that you were looking for some book ideas. Are you reading anything good right now?
VENUS WILLIAMS: Haven't been able to focus. Like I try to read and then I can't focus on it. But I'm playing a few games.
Q. Video games?
VENUS WILLIAMS: A little bit. Not too many.
Q. Do you ever play your own game?
VENUS WILLIAMS: I'm terrible at it. I really am.
Q. Have you lost to yourself?
VENUS WILLIAMS: That's the worst, huh? But, no, actually I haven't. Thank God.

Q. Do you enjoy scaring people?
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: Enjoy which people?
Q. Scaring everybody that you're scaring now.
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO: Oh, you mean ... Yes, why not? Really, you know, if somebody scare of me, if I go on the court, it's very good. You know, then I have more confidence. If I don't feel by self good, I know everybody scare play against me, and I still have something, you know, feel I can win this match.

Q. What did you think of Maria's (Sharapova) outfit or costume? Do you ever pay attention to things like that?
MARIA KIRILENKO: It was blue, I think, like POWERade. I mean, yeah, what can I say? Was good dress. She always have a nice dresses. I think I always have a nice dresses, as well.

Q. Down two sets (to Marin Cilic), was it a matter of playing catch up tennis that proved too much for you?
ANDY RODDICK: No, because I caught up. I did catch him, then he went ahead again. No, I caught him. Yeah, I mean, I guess it's always a case of playing catch up tennis when you're down two sets, right?

Q. Did they explain to you in medical terms what it (the shoulder injury) is? Is it a muscle? Tendon?
ANDY RODDICK: They said something like a nerve on a T1. Does that make any sense to you?
Q. No.
ANDY RODDICK: Didn't make any sense to me either.

Q. How did you think he'll (Jo-Wilfried Tsonga) go against Roger Federer?
NOVAK DJOKOVIC: I don't know and I don't care.

Q. It's actually only 74 years since we (Britain) haven't won a Grand Slam.
ROGER FEDERER: How many years did I say?
Q. You said 150,000.
ROGER FEDERER: I missed it by a little bit.

 
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