Quotable quotes: US Open pre-tournament pressers

Grand Slam press conference rooms are always some of the most bizarrely interesting places to be during a tournament. Some of the questions make sense, others do not, but all illicit some sort of response. We round-up the best quotes from the pre-tournament US Open press conferences.

If you don’t want a great show, of course it’s a great improvement.
– Rafael Nadal is no fan of the shot clock.

How is possible again? Just first round of a Grand Slam.
– Simona Halep was surprised at drawing Sharapova.

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Getting over one of those matches and getting over beating one of the big, big names in tennis in a five-set match, that’s, I think, that’s where the success will come in.
– Alex Zverev is looking forward to Grand Slam success in Flushing.

For now she’s like invincible right now. She never lost with me.
– Conchita Martinez has the ultimate winning record with Garbine Muguruza.

You can cut down the season by half, and then, if then there is an injury, we cut it down half again, and at the end we play two months of the year eventually at some stage, and we’ll still be injured because now we’re not playing enough.
– Roger Federer has no issues with the length of the ATP season.

I kind of ran ran out of time. Maybe if I’d been able to take a little bit more time off…
– Time waits for no man, Andy Murray.

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It’s not so easy to get there, but of course if you are there, it’s a feeling what you will never forget and you know you reached it.
– Angelique Kerber reflects on being No.1.

I don’t think Serena being gone it’s like immediately, like, Madison, you’re our only hope.
– But you are Madison Keys.

Yes, actually, guys, I’m engaged
– Karolina Pliskova is getting hitched