"I can be proud of my fight today" says Azarenka after securing Indian Wells final

Victoria Azarenka secured her first WTA 1000 final at the BNP Paribas Open by overcoming Ostapenko in a tight 3-setter 3-6 5-3 7-5.

It was a very exciting and long match between Azarenka and Ostapenko in the BNP Paribas Open semifinal. Victoria Azarenka lost the first set against a very inspired Ostapenko only to come back and win the next two. She showed a lot of fight and after the match underlined that as the thing she is most proud of after the match:

"I thought the most important [thing], I would say today, was my fight, that I can be really proud of. Analyzing the game, it was a lot of probably things that I could have maybe done a little bit better."

Indeed it was not a perfect game for Azarenka but you will rarely ever have a perfect game in tennis. The most important thing is playing better than your opponent and Azarenka was able to do that:

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"Overall she was playing really incredible in the first set, not giving me much to do. I was just trying to find opportunity, actually create opportunity, for me to get back into the match, to take a little bit more control in the match, really fight for every ball."

Azarenka also touched upon a very tricky season for her admitting that only now she has found the right balance in her game:

"I feel like right now I'm a bit more settled with a bit more structure, a little bit more discipline, which makes it not necessarily easier but a bit clearer what I need to do. So it doesn't take extra energy on that, so I can kind of focus my energy more on the fighting for every ball."