It is never easy to move on straight away from winning your first Grand Slam championship as Garbiñe Muguruza, the new French Open champion found out at the Mallorca Open losing to Kirsten Flipkens but in defence for the Spaniard, she wouldn't have played that event if it wasn't in Spain.

The runner-up from last year didn't suffer the same fate that Angelique Kerber did after winning the Australian Open title back in January and crashing out in the opening round of the next slam.

Muguruza overcame the Italian Camila Giorgi in three sets in an entertaining battle on Centre Court and she spoke to the media following her victory.

Muguruza: Wimbledon is a tricky tournament

The Spaniard on the prestigious grass court tournament in the world, "Wimbledon is a very tricky tournament because the grass sometimes can give you a surprise, all of the matches are quite more equal and I think I had a very tough match today."

The second-seed isn't dwelling on some of the negatives and is only looking at the positives. "I'm gonna take the positive sides, I think it's good to start the tournament, get into the grass court and I'm pretty happy about this match, sometimes you don't win beautiful but you just gotta be there and fight for the match."

Muguruza in action against Giorgi on Centre Court on Day 1 of Wimbledon (Source : BBC)
Muguruza in action against Giorgi on Centre Court on Day 1 of Wimbledon (Source : BBC)

On the grass court season

In the press conference, Muguruza acknowledged that the grass court season is short. "I think every hour you spend on grass practising it really helps you because it's a different surface and we only have a few tournaments to play so it helped me a lot to right away start and change from the clay courts to grass, it helped me today for sure."

Clay to grass

The Spaniard also spoke about the transition from clay to grass. "I think on grass you have less time for everything, you really gotta concentrate on your first shots that's going to make a difference, it's not like on clay, you have more time and can survive more, you're in danger if you don't go for it,  so I think it's more faster and more concentrated, that ball,that three seconds can change a match."

The French Open champion would have been pleased to have had a tricky match out of the way, and could it be an omen like the French Open. Muguruza only dropped one set throughout the tournament and it was in the first round.

Can lightening strike twice again? The Spaniard will play Jana Cepelova in the second round on Wednesday.

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