Former World No.1 Victoria Azarenka is into the Miami Open Semifinals after she overcame Ace Queen Karolina Pliskova and the Belarusian spoke about her physical health. “I feel like physically I kind of surprised myself with the transformation that I have achieved after giving birth to my son.

I became in much better shape, which usually happens otherwise for a woman sometimes, but I’m glad that it worked out for me much better,” she said. “I feel physically pretty well. I think I still need to improve.

I want to get faster. I want to get stronger to be able to cover the court and cut the balls much better. But overall I think I’m in pretty good shape. I just need to get better tournament-fit and matches-fit.” Speaking about the conditions, she added, “It was tricky, definitely tricky conditions, but something that’s the same for both players, so it’s not something that you can take and say this was bothering me or something.” “I thought that in those conditions that I adjusted really well.

I had to adjust. I had to be a little bit, give a little bit of a bigger margin than maybe I usually do.” ALSO READ Nick Kyrgios on visiting hospitals: 'I want to make a difference'