" I'm happy now because I'm getting better each day. I felt pressure at the beginning of the tournament that I have to play well, and that maybe made my level of performance go down a little. But I seem much better in the last match and today's match. That's a good moment and I'm happy about that."

" I was extremely happy about the result of W.Grand Prix 98 including MVP I got. However, it's already history. We're now in the W.Championship, and we must play well here."

" I think both Russia and Cuba are great teams. We have not seen Cuba in this tournament yet so I can only say that Russia played very well in Matsumoto and we did play very badly.

" The teams that reached the semifinal matches are surely the strong teams.We have to prepare for that. Although what I'm thinking about right now is only tomorrow's match...