Intro:

Reaction from Mirjana Lucic-Baroni, Belinda Bencic and Simona Halep after Friday's matches at the US Open.

Script:

SOUNDBITE: (English) Mirjana Lucic-Baroni:

"Well, I mean, I'm a little bit emotional now. Sorry. It's been really hard. Sorry. After so many years to be here again, it's incredible. I wanted this so bad. So many times I would get to, you know, a place where I could do it. Then I wanted it so bad that I'm kind of burned out. And I apologise again. Yeah, I'm so happy."

SOUNDBITE: (English) Belinda Bencic:

"Yeah, it feels amazing. I played a really good match right from the start, and then I had a little bit timeout in the second. But I'm happy that I came back. It's amazing that after last year I played juniors here, and this year I'm in the fourth round. So it's incredible."

SOUNDBITE: (English) Simona Halep:

"She played really well today. I mean, after I had 5-2 and the two set points, she came back really well and she started to hit every ball. Everything was in for her. It wasn't my best day, but still I did everything I could on court. She was better than me today, so I have to just to keep working every day hard and to look forward for the next one."