If there are question marks over Serena Williams' chances of winning another French Open title, the world number one was keen to stress they are not in her own head.
Williams' title victory in Rome last weekend was her first for nine months, a huge stretch of time for the woman who has dominated tennis in recent years.
Her crushing loss to Roberta Vinci in the US Open semi-finals last summer, which ended Williams' hopes of winning the calendar grand slam, clearly took some getting over.
She did not play again in 2015 and her first three tournaments of 2016 brought final losses at the Australian Open and Indian Wells and then a fourth-round defeat to Svetlana Kuznetsova at the Miami Open.
"For me, if I'm not winning, I'm not happy about my year," said Williams.
"Four tournaments, three finals isn't bad for, I think, everyone else. Then again, I'm not everyone else.
"I guess when you win all the time, if you go a couple of tournaments and don't win them, it's like you're in a drought."
Williams had not played a tournament on clay before Rome having pulled out of Madrid through illness but did not drop a set all tournament, beating fellow American Madison Keys in the final.
"It felt good to win in Rome, obviously," said the 34-year-old.
"I was feeling pretty confident going into some of those matches. Especially the last few I felt a lot better.
"Even if I'd have lost, I feel like some of those matches really gave me the match play that I needed."
Even if Williams had not won Rome, picking another potential favourite for Roland Garros would have been extremely difficult.
So inconsistent have the rest of the leading women been that US Open champion Flavia Pennetta re-entered the top 10 this week despite having retired at the end of last season.
And if Williams needs inspiration, she can look back to last year's fortnight in Paris, when she beat all her opponents and the flu to lift her 20th slam.
"I think about it a lot and I still don't know how I got through it," she said.
"In the locker room, the lady said, 'How are you? Are you okay?' Last time she saw me my eyes were glassy and I was just not doing well.
"I think that's probably going to be something that always sticks out in my mind. Like, wow, of all the titles, that was crazy that I was able to win this one last year."
Williams said she is now taking vitamin C every night to try to avoid similar problems, although she has already been forced out of tournaments twice this year because of flu.
And the world number one is not happy to see cold and damp weather again in Paris this year.
She said: "I'm just really trying to regulate my temperature. It's so cold again this year. Hopefully it will heat up a little bit."
Williams, meanwhile, was happy to see increased security at the tournament, admitting she has not been happy with arrangements in previous years.
She said: "That's something I think a lot of the players wanted, is a little bit more security. We just want to play tennis. We want to enjoy ourselves and just live our lives."
