Quoted by Maria:"It's amazing really, I'm absolutely speechless.  It's always been my dream to come here and win but it was never in my mind that I would do it this year.   When I came off court and saw my name on that board with all the champions, that was when I realised what I'd done.  I thought I was going to get sick and I was in tears. I didn't think I'd be ready to go out and win.  I did not think about it being a final, I didn't think who I was playing, I was just concentrating on my own game.  I don't know how I won. I don't know what the tactics were. I just didn't care what was going on around me - I was in my own little world. I just told myself the power was in me and if I put my mind to do something, I can do it."

On July 3, 04, as she win the Champion