These two interviews are Magüi's words to Canal + after two matches in Wimbledon, in 1998.

    The first one is after defeating the Italian Rita Grande in the second round, by 6-4 and 6-1.

M.S. Yes, I’m really happy and happier now because Coetzer lost and I have an accesible match to try to reach the 1/8 finals.

    That’s important, isn’t it?

M.S. Very important. I’m really happy because I’ve played today much better than yesterday, and if I play tomorrow, well, I hope to play even better than today and try to reach the 1/8 finals.

    How was the match? What was the key of your win?

M.S. Well, I think that I have served very well and the returns...well, I returned well, in general I’ve played quite well, especially when I had to serve, serve and net, and she was a little ‘mad’ and I have pushed her a lot, making that she was near the net and she couldn’t pass me.

    Spain is looking forward to new players apart from Arantxa and Conchita. This can be a good chance, can’t it? If you say that the good player in your part of the draw.....

M.S. Well, it’s really a..., well the match I have now against Sawamatsu is hard because she plays very well on grass, in fact she defeated Coetzer... Well, it’s going to be a tough match but easier than against Novotna or someone more expert on grass, and well, I’m looking forwrd to tomorrow’s match to try to win and improve in the ranking.

    Very well, many thanks.

M.S. Thanks to you.

    Congratulations.

M.S. See you.
 

    The second one is after defeating the Japanese Sawamatsu in the third round, by 6-3, 5-7 and 6-0.

    We have been watching your match, it has been really long, you have had a bad moment in the second set and you got a 6/0 in the third set. It has been a good score, isn’t it?

M.S: Yes. I was playing very well in the first set, I distracted in the second one, a bad moment, and she got a 4/1 with two breaks, and well, losing the set after being able to draw the match, well, it hurt me a little, after getting a 5/5 and with my serve, and losing it...but I played well again in the third set, and I pushed her a lot by going to the net and maybe she was a little tired.

    In the second set we’ve seen you complaining about something to the umpire, because it was an important point so that  Sawamatsu couldn’t  win the set, wasn’t it?

M.S. Yes, well on grass when you see that a ball is clearly, for example, out, and they don’t shout out, or when you see it was on the line, and they shout out, well, it’s worse than on clay, because on clay it’s marked and with this mark you have....

    You can’t demonstrate it...

M.S: You can’t demonstrate it here, but there was a ball that was very clear for me, a volley that bounced on the line and I saw it and she shouted out, and there was a moment when losing balls that way hurts.

    Look, here we’re seeing images of your match. When she got the second set we thought, well, we hope she doesn’t ‘collapse’ because it’s almost like beginning from scratch and say, another match begins, does it?

M.S: Yes, it’s difficult to begin again when you lose the second set, but in the second game I got the first break, and you’re more relaxed...

    The rain is bothering the players, isn’t it?
    I don’t know how it’s being for you, well, it’s respecting you, but the match could have been called off with 5/0 and 30/0.

M.S: Yes, that happened to me yesterday. My match was called off with 5/0.

    Well, imagine if that had happened today, again to the changing room, and think, what’s the weather like?...

M.S.The rain is actually an inconvenient and that’s why it’s a double side factor because, for example, I had yesterday a clear advantage of 5/0, but it could have been for example 4/1 and you’re seeing that the other player is having a bad moment and maybe the rain in that moment saves her and when she returns to the court, she has many hopes to win again.

    But that’s a double side factor and I think it has its good and bad things.
Well, you’re used to it in Wimbledon. You’ve been coming for several years and you get used to it, don’t you? That’s the way it is, and Miguel Ángel tells us often, “this is Wimbledon and you have to accept the way it is and being champion here and doing good things has its inconvenients”, is it that way?

M.S. Yes, it’s really...
I think that that of the rain affects everyone in the same way. Last year I think it was much worse than this year because I remember that I started playing on Monday and I finished the first match on Saturday, and I was here everyday from 9 a.m till 6 p.m, and, well, I think this year that has been an inconvenient, but let’s hope the weather gets better.

    Seeing the women’s draw we see that you’ve won three matches and now you play to the second-seeded Lindsay Davenport. That’s a tough match, isn’t it?

M.S. Yes, well, I think it’s going to be a tough match, she’s the world number two, she’s the favourite but, well, I think I’m playing quite well here, my game here hurts a lot and well, I’ll try to play the best I can and that way I can give a surprise.

    That we have heard was you, with the happiness of the match

    Well, if you defeat Davenport, you’ll play later to Conchita, we wish you good luck. We wish you defeat Davenport, we would like to see a match between you and Conchita and we thank you for these minutes you’ve come to our studio and we’re going to follow you in the same way we’ve been following you so far, Magüi.

M.S. Many thanks to you.

    Many thanks.