"Taking a 12-minute timeout, I don't think it was fair play, but she can do it by the rules. If that is the only way she can beat me then it is up to her"
Elena Dementieva is not impressed as she loses to Mary Pierce in three sets. "I'm 30 years-old and I've been on the tour for 17 years. I would never do anything toward another player in that kind of way"
Pierce hits back.
"It takes a lot of work and I'm willing to go back on the practice court and in the gym, whatever I need to do, and work hard to win the Grand Slams"
Maria Sharapova warns she will be back after losing to Kim Cliijsters.
"Yeah, I'm 22, but definitely my body is not 22 anymore" Clijsters is already looking forward to retiring in two years.
"We almost completed the anti-Slam. That would have been a feat. So win or lose, it was going to be amazing"
Bob Bryan after he and brother Mike win the men's doubles, having finished runners-up at the Australian Open, the French Open and Wimbledon this year.
"He could, you know. But then again, he could run into the knife even more brutally"
Roger Federer when asked if semi-final opponent Lleyton Hewitt has worked out a plan to end a run of eight defeats to the Swiss.
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