Post-match reaction from Francesca Schiavone:
"I prepared the final mentally and tactically very good. I was so concentrated on my serve. I try to don't look nowhere, but just to feel my play and try to be aggressive as much as I could.
"This means that everybody has the chance to be who really you want to be, and to do everything in your life. This is what's happen to me.
"When I call my daddy, he say to me, I remember you that you always dream this one. Every morning that you wake up, you work to do something like this. So maybe it was far away in the reality, but here [in the heart] never far away.
"To kiss the ground for me is to thank this clay, this beautiful tournament and this arena... to give me this opportunity and all the emotion that I am living."