MARIA SHARAPOVA IN PRESS CONFERENCE.

Q. I guess you're happy to get into the quarters of such a maybe quick match to get ready for the next one? MARIA SHARAPOVA: Well, when you're playing the match you're not thinking about the next one. You're thinking about the current match. I wasn't thinking to try to finish it out as fast as I can. I just wanted to do the right things and play the right way. I thought I did a good, solid job of that. 
 Q. Looking forward to this next match, what do you expect out of Genie, who has been in pretty good form so far? 
 MARIA SHARAPOVA: Yeah, she has been. She's been playing really well in this tournament and also in the slams the last year. Really confident tennis and inspired form. I expect her to come out and play a really good match. I think we only played each other one time last year, which was at the French. That was a really tough match for me. I had to come back from being down one set to Love. Yeah, I'm sure she'll come out and play extremely well. 

 Q. What makes her tough to play? In her game, what's the toughest? 

 MARIA SHARAPOVA: She's a pretty aggressive player. She stays really close to the line, she likes to dictate the points. Yeah, I feel that's where she's hurt a lot of players and been really successful. 


 Q. She's compared to you quite often for various reasons. Can you see the similarities and can you remember what it was like when you were coming through the same way? 
 MARIA SHARAPOVA: Yeah, I think we all want to go through our own paths and we all want to -- when I was coming up, I was compared to Kournikova for many years in my career and still occasionally name always comes up in interviews and articles. That's just part of it, part of the game, part of the business. It's understandable. It is what it is. As I have said, I believe I was still a teenager, I don't want to be the next anyone. I want to be the first Maria Sharapova. And that's how I've been throughout my whole career. And we all want to create our own path and go through our own career. And we're all destined for some sort of thing. We work extremely hard at a sport, and that's what we want to be known for. 
 Q. Do you see any of yourself in Genie? 
 MARIA SHARAPOVA: I personally don't know Genie very well. As a tennis player she's a big competitor. She's an aggressive player as well that likes to take the ball early and dictate points. From that perspective, yeah, definitely. 
 Q. Is there anybody who reminds you of you out here?
 MARIA SHARAPOVA: I haven't really thought about it. Q. Talk about something about your Chinese opponent, Peng Shuai today. MARIA SHARAPOVA: Well, coming into the match I've had some trouble. I lost again Peng in my career before and I knew I had to start off the match really well. I think I did -- I played solid. I don't think I did anything spectacular, but felt that I was consistent. I served smart at times. I returned quite well. I think that really helped me. I think I won the right points at the right time and ultimately won the match.