For several days now, excerpts from an interview that Anna gave to a German magazine Pirouette have been appearing on various sites. Unfortunately, I never found a link to the original, only to this magazine itself:
pirouette-online.de
Apparently, the most complete translation of this interview into Russian was published on the VKontakte social network:
https://vk.com/shcherbakova_anna?w=wall-85198136_29448
"I am satisfied with the performances at two stages. I move forward step by step. The main thing is that I was better in comparison with the previous competitions. At the first stage, the goal was to show the quad and I did everything cleanly. At the second stage, we made a two changes to the SP. In FS, my goal was to try quadruple lutz. But I made a big mistake and I think I need to be more confident in this jump. The jump should be stable, but I'm glad that after everything else was done cleanly and I did the second quad.
I had only 5 days to prepare a new SP in Moscow and we did everything we could to show it at the competitions, but of course there was not enough time to combine every movement with music. When I performed the program at the competition, I was very nervous, not because of the jumps, but because of every movement and detail. Usually I think about how to do pure jumps, but here I thought how not to forget the movements.
About changing the program:
This was risky before the competition, as the program was not fully developed. But if we look in perspective, then the new program will have more advantages and we will work very hard on it to make it better for the main competition. I think it was the right decision.
The program is completely different. I can honestly say that I have never had such a program, because here from the very beginning to the end there is a "nerve" that needs to be kept. There are no calm parts, as is usually the case, here from beginning to end you need to keep the pace and control not only the speed, but also the expressiveness. I try to do it, but I noticed that this time at the beginning I did not have enough strength and it was hard for me. But this is a normal workflow. When I complete the program, I will feel confident in the choreography. We see potential.
About the Grand Prix finals (interview was recorded before the competition was canceled):
We will work on the SP, on the entire program. For the FS, it's more about the technical part, everything should be done cleanly. At the main starts, the programs must be clean, every jump must be successful, I cannot afford to make mistakes, especially such as on the first jump in the FS, because of which I lost points."