1. 00:00 Serena Williams walks into press conference. 2. 00:15 SOUNDBITE (English) Serena Williams, top seed: (Question: Have you ever seen any hint of (match-fixing), any indications of that at all?) “Not that I’m aware of. When I’m playing, I can only answer for me, I play very hard, and every player I play seems to play hard.I think that, you know, we go - you know, as an athlete, I do everything I can to be not only great, but, you know, historic. You know, if that’s going on, I don’t know about it. You know, I’m kind of sometimes in a little bit of a bubble.” 3. 00:47 Novak Djokovic walks into press conference 4. 00:55 SOUNDBITE (English) Novak Djokovic, top seed: “There is no room for any match fixing or corruption in our sport. We’re trying to keep it as clean as possible. We have, I think, a sport evolved and upgraded our programs and authorities to deal with these particular cases. I don’t think the shadow is cast over our sport. In contrary, people are talking about names, guessing who these players are, guessing those names. But there’s no real proof or evidence yet of any active players, for that matter. As long as it’s like that, it’s just speculation. So I think we have to keep it that way.” 5. 01:47 SOUNDBITE (English) Novak Djokovic, top seed: “I was not approached directly. I was approached through — well, me personally. I was approached through people that were working with me at that time, that were with my team. Of course, we threw it away right away. It didn’t even get to me, the guy that was trying to talk to me, he didn’t even get to me directly. There was nothing out of it. Unfortunately there were some, in those times, those days, some rumors, some talks, some people were going around. They were dealt with. In the last six, seven years, I haven’t heard anything similar. I personally was never approached directly.” 6. 02:44 SOUNDBITE (English) Novak Djokovic, top seed: “It made me feel terrible because I don’t want to be anyhow linked to this kind of — you know, somebody may call it an opportunity. For me, that’s an act of unsportsmanship, a crime in sport honestly. I don’t support it. I think there is no room for it in any sport, especially in tennis.” 7. 03:17 Roger Federer walks into press conference 8. 03:27 SOUNDBITE: (English) Roger Federer, 3rd seed (on match-fixing allegations in tennis): “I don’t know exactly how much new things came out, to be quite honest. I heard old names being dropped. That story was checked out. Clearly you got to take it super serious, you know, like they did back in the day. Since we have the Integrity Unit, it puts more pressure on them that a story like this broke again. But I don’t know how much new things there is out there. It’s just really important that all the governing bodies and all the people involved take it very seriously, that the players know about it. There’s more pressure on these people now maybe because of this story, which is a good thing.” 9. 04:14 SOUNDBITE (English) Roger Federer, 3rd seed (on match-fixing allegations in tennis): “It doesn’t matter how much money you pump into the system, there’s always going to be people approaching players, or people, any sport. It’s all a question of money, you know. It doesn’t maybe happen at the challengers. It’s going to happen at the futures. It’s going to go away if you offer USD$1 million for every player to play at every tournament? It’s not going to change a thing. Still might be approached. That’s why I think you’re wrong there, that more money there is going to solve the issue completely. I agree we should have more money at futures, challengers, all these levels, no doubt about it. But it’s not going to solve the issue. The issue is elsewhere, in the player’s mind.” 10. 05:03 SOUNDBITE: (English) Roger Federer, 3rd seed (Question: Among the allegations in the report was some of the suspected match-fixers were Grand Slam singles and doubles players. Is it surprising, that element, that they’re saying Grand Slam champions are being involved?): “I mean, it’s like who, what. It’s like thrown around. It’s so easy to do that. I would like to hear the name. I would love to hear names. Then at least it’s concrete stuff and you can actually debate about it. Was it the player? Was it the support team? Who was it? Was it before? Was it a doubles player, a singles player? Which slam? It’s so all over the place. It’s nonsense to answer something that is pure speculation. Like I said, it’s super-serious and it’s super-important to maintain the integrity of our sport.” 11. 05:48 Maria Sharapova walks into press conference 12. 06:01 SOUNDBITE: (English) Maria Sharapova, fifth seed (on whether more prize money at the Challenger and Futures tournament level would prevent match-fixing): “I don’t think it really matters what level you are. The sport itself is meaningful. It’s our career. It’s our job. I mean, I guess I can only speak for myself, but we want to succeed at it by improving, by getting better, by beating our own best, and not by anything else. That’s how I would hope everyone else would think, as well. Make it a better and more competitive sport.”