I've had good results on clay during my junior years and I enjoy playing on clay to the opposite of what many media can say.
Players who win on a clay surface are those who can control the ball, playing steadily and accurately from the back-court, keeping the ball in play and moving it around with changes of speed and spin, and resisting the temptation to over-hit.
Everybody knows I'm not a clay-court specialist. I'm not feeling so well on this surface.
I think for Britain it's tough to play on clay. They prefer grass courts, hard courts, fast courts.
On clay, you know that you have much longer rallies, and you must run for maybe two or three hours.
In Madrid, the conditions are always better for me. It suits my game: fast clay, high altitude, the balls fly really well.
I have played some good matches against Rafa on clay.
Especially at Indian Wells, Miami, the hard courts are what I grew up on, so I'm probably most used to it.
That result at the French was a big break for me. I had been playing quite well up until that point but nobody really expected me to do well on clay - it was my worst surface. I had had some success on the clay but I was a set and a break up in the semi-final against Jausovec and maybe the enormity of the occasion got to me.
It's tough to control the ball on the clay.
Before I started playing more on the WTA tour, I actually won most of my Challengers on the clay, especially at the very beginning.
