Julia Sude, Germany – “The Spanish team knows quite good how to play in the wind because they practice in Tenerife. I like to play in the wind but we have to adjust a little bit, especially the service. We have tactics and we were talking a lot to each other and it worked out in the end. For sure this is a different tournament than the others, it’s a different rhythm. Also we have to get used to being number two in the world and almost always the favorite. We try to be focused only on the volleyball. Our whole life we have worked to be in this situation to be the favorite, now we are happy to be in this position.”
Chantal Laboureur, Germany – “It might look from the outside to be very clear, but inside we have to fight for every point. For the next games we have to keep more pressure on the serve and use the break chances we have, we lost some today and we have to improve this. The wind is not so consistent, so that makes the play more difficult. We have to focus more and mover our legs more. I have my gold medal with me still (from Gstaad) so it reminds me of this victory. It’s been amazing the past few weeks and we hope we can keep the level like this. In the beginning we would be a little bit nervous playing in the centre court with a huge crowd and in this big tournament, but now we get more and more comfortable.
Elsa Baquerizo, Spain – “We knew it would be tough, they are playing very, very well this year. They played better than us this time. We’ll just wait and see who we have next and reorganize our game a little bit because today was a bit crazy. We struggle a bit with the win, they served pretty well. We didn’t have too many mistakes in reception but they just played better. We didn’t finish the defenses that we got and they did, so that was the difference.”