THE MODERATOR: Welcome back to the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix. How does it feel to be here? It must feel like a home tournament for you.
EVA LYS: Definitely. I feel like that's the first thing I said whenever I came outside the car. I feel like home, which is great. We have a couple, but we don't have that many opportunities to play in Germany. So every time I come back, the team, the WTA, the tournament, especially Porsche, make me feel like I'm at home. So I really enjoy coming here.
THE MODERATOR: Questions in English.
Q. Obviously this tournament is very unique where it's an indoor red clay court, and I know you just played a match in Charleston where it's outdoor green clay. Can you talk about the adjustment to the court conditions and what you think you like, if you like, about the indoor red clay.
EVA LYS: I mean, I love indoors in general. I feel like I had always a couple of good results indoors. So coming back to clay indoors is definitely a very fun week for me.
The clay court is a little bit different than the outside clay courts, so you definitely need a little bit of adjustment. For me, coming from outside to indoors is quite easy. I think it's going to be a little bit more tricky to go from indoors outside again, but this is a topic for later.
I always feel very good on this surface. Yeah, happy to be at home.
Q. I know you have been still coming back into match form from that knee injury you had at United Cup. How are you feeling physically, and how have the first few matches back on court been for you?
EVA LYS: My team, especially the close people around me, knew that the first matches especially in Miami and Charleston were just like a big test to the knee. I had to come back to Germany and just check if everything is fine, if the knee was able to, yeah, sustain in good condition, which it did.
So we all know that for me, due to my body, it always takes a little bit longer to really find my match physique. This is what I'm doing right now. I'm pain-free, which is also something that we didn't expect to be coming that early, because the doctors said that it would take a lot longer.
So I'm just super thankful to be on court again. I'm practicing, I'm putting a lot of work into be back in the form I want to be, but it will definitely take a couple of weeks to actually get into the same condition I was before. But overall, I'm on a good path.
Q. I think Coco was explaining that you guys were practicing together earlier. She was talking about how she found your game on the baseline, you were playing very well and you have great groundstrokes. Do you find that to be a strength of yours, especially on the clay?
EVA LYS: Can you repeat the last sentence?
Q. She was explaining how your play on the baseline was really well, like the groundstrokes, things like that, maintaining court positioning. Do you find that to be a strength of yours on the clay?
EVA LYS: Definitely. I feel like my court position is a strength in general. This is something I really try to work on a lot. Especially hitting with big players like Coco, I find it very hard to keep the position, so every time I get an opportunity and possibility to play or practice with players like that, it definitely helps my game.
So for clay, this is one comment I get from so many players, How the hell are you staying that close to the, yeah, to the baseline?
I have been playing like that my whole life. I feel like that's also a reason why I feel very comfortable on hard court and on clay, because I also grew up on clay, and this is my way of playing. So I'm definitely trying to work on the strengths I have on that surface.
Q. My last question, more of a random question, it's about tournament DJs and music. When you're in between sets or in between changeovers, which tournaments do you think have the best DJs, which could improve, which songs are played too much, which are great? What are your thoughts about tournament music?
EVA LYS: I mean, I love tournament music. I feel like especially for myself, it helps me just loosen the mood, because I feel like the biggest enemy is Eva when I'm just too nervous and too tight.
Whenever I'm hearing a song or just fun music in between, makes me loosen up a little bit. I'm thinking of the tournaments where I remember having a tournament DJ. I do know that Hamburg was playing some good music, and I could, like, maybe tell them one or two songs I really like, so it's fun to hear your own playlist.
But overall, I'm definitely a big fan of that.
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