(Agencies)
Updated: 2007-10-24 09:44

"But you have to work very hard and every day you have to start again and have a lot of discipline and try to be at your best, even if it's not that easy every day."

This means Henin rarely has the opportunity to celebrate her victories. After winning in Zurich there was no special dinner, just thoughts about how to prepare for Madrid.

"You win and then you have to be focused on something else very quickly," said Henin. "It's my job week after week and I try and be really focused and very professional.

"I do celebrate a lot when I win the French Open because my family and my friends are around and it's easier.

"After Grand Slams usually, and also at the end of the season I make one big night with all the people I work with, my team, my friends, my family."

Whatever happens in Madrid, she will be playing only for the satisfaction of competing.

"I don't feel I have anything to prove to anyone, not even to myself," she said.

"I know what I can do on the tennis court. When I cannot produce my best I'm a bit frustrated, but I'm not a machine. I'm just a person before being a tennis player, but I try to be always very professional."

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