Haddad Maia poursuit son rêve en s'offrant Jabeur et une demi-finale ! Après deux échecs en huitièmes, Ons Jabeur, finaliste à Wimbledon et à l'US Open, a goûté aux quarts de finale à Roland-Garros, mais patientera pour découvrir les demies. N°7 mondiale, la Tunisienne a été piégé par la 14e joueuse mondiale Beatriz Haddad Maia. Renversante, cette dernière s'est imposée 3-6, 7-6(5), 6-1 avec beaucoup de caractère. Alors qu'elle n'avait jamais atteint le troisième tour d'un Majeur auparavant, la Brésilienne vit un rêve éveillé à Paris. La joueuse de 27 ans peut rêver d'être la première femme brésilienne à remporter Roland-Garros, suivre les traces de Gustavo Kuerten chez les hommes, et devenir la première représentante de son pays à glaner un tournoi du Grand Chelem dans l'ère Open. Elle est déjà la première Brésilienne de l'ère Open en demi-finale de Roland-Garros. La fierté de tout un pays...
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00:00 It is often said that tennis is an individual sport,
00:04 but it is never more beautiful than when it is collective.
00:09 BNP Paribas, faithful to tomorrow's tennis for 50 years.
00:15 I'm feeling happy, for sure.
00:19 The last time we played I lost 6-3, 6-0,
00:23 so it's not easy to step on the chatrier for the first time.
00:27 I didn't play there before.
00:30 To play against a very competitive player as she is.
00:35 Also, I know that she could make me feel drop shots
00:42 when I was trying to be aggressive.
00:44 I'm happy that I could keep trying to improve my tennis,
00:48 keep trying to step in, to go forward.
00:51 I'm happy with my mentality today,
00:54 because I had to be very patient and wait for the opportunity.
00:59 I'm proud because of that.
01:02 How important is momentum for you within a match
01:05 and in the scope of the tournament itself?
01:08 Sorry, I didn't understand.
01:11 How important has it been within each match to build momentum
01:15 and then across the whole tournament at this point?
01:18 As I said yesterday,
01:22 I think a tennis match is like a marathon,
01:26 it's not a 100-metre race.
01:29 I think one of my qualities is that I wait,
01:34 I'm very patient and I never give up.
01:39 I wait for the moment because I know that my level is high.
01:42 Even if I'm not playing well or if I'm missing a few shots,
01:48 one moment the tennis will appear
01:51 and I'll have my opportunity to go for it.
01:54 Today the momentum changed in the tiebreak.
01:58 I was almost at home because I was serving 5-0,
02:02 I think 15-40 in the second set.
02:05 She was almost there.
02:08 I think because of that I could change
02:11 and I had the momentum for me.
02:13 Bia, congratulations.
02:17 At the end of the match you put your hands on your head,
02:21 you were looking around and it was like you could not believe
02:24 what was happening to you.
02:26 If this is all a dream,
02:28 what's going to happen when you wake up?
02:31 I think I did not think to do that,
02:37 but I came to Roland Garros,
02:41 my first goal was to win the third round.
02:45 I never won a second round in a Grand Slam
02:50 and I know that the goal had to be real.
02:54 I remember that when I won the third round,
02:57 I said "Now I'll reach another goal".
02:59 When we have eight players in the quarterfinals of a Grand Slam,
03:06 everybody is playing well, so everybody can believe.
03:08 I was prepared for the game.
03:11 I knew that it would be very hard,
03:14 it's not easy to be sat down against Javier Wood
03:16 and she was playing well.
03:18 When the match was done, I just looked to my team and said
03:22 "We made it".
03:24 I was happy and I'm very excited for what is coming as well.
03:34 Looking at your face on that match point,
03:36 when it all finished,
03:38 have you ever been in a state of shock and disbelief
03:42 as you were right at that moment?
03:45 No.
03:47 I think it was one of the biggest and special wins for me.
03:53 Also because Javier Wood is a player that I respected a lot
03:58 and it's very tough to come and go for it.
04:03 One thing is to win a set,
04:04 one thing is to have 5-3 and serve
04:06 and one thing is to go and win the match.
04:09 I was very proud and I think my face showed that
04:14 hard working works sometimes.
04:18 How do you stay at that level going into the semifinals?
04:25 It looks like it'll be Chriantech.
04:30 How do you maintain that without having a bit of a drop
04:33 after a big result like this?
04:37 I think during my career I had moments like this
04:41 when I reached the first final for Master Thousand
04:44 and also my first WTA final
04:46 when I was in the top 20 for the first time
04:49 and I won my first big tournament in doubles.
04:53 I think every step we pass through makes us stronger.
05:00 I think now I will take care of my body.
05:04 My mentality keeps the same.
05:06 I already played against Iga as well
05:09 so we need to still wait.
05:11 Tennis is long.
05:13 If it was my match, even if it is set in 4-2,
05:17 the match can change, everything can change very fast in tennis
05:20 so I'll be ready even if it's Coco or Iga.
05:23 I'll take care of my body, my things
05:27 and try to keep the same mentality tomorrow.
05:29 Hi there, Beatriz.
05:31 Two quick questions.
05:33 One is that the match has just finished.
05:35 It is Iga.
05:37 If you could just give us a little addition
05:40 to what you were saying to Craig there
05:42 about the challenge of playing Iga
05:45 and how you will convince yourself that you can win.
05:49 We played once
05:54 and it was last year in the middle of the year.
05:57 It was three sets
05:59 and I won at the end of the match.
06:02 It's a very tough one.
06:04 She's the number one
06:06 and she's one of the best players we have from the last year.
06:10 She's young, she's a nice person as well.
06:14 She already won twice here.
06:17 I'll try to enjoy.
06:19 I'll try to play every single point.
06:21 I'll leave everything on the court
06:23 and I have nothing to lose.
06:26 I'll try to go for it
06:29 and do my best shots
06:31 and think about the things I need to improve as well.
06:35 Just finally from me.
06:37 Forgive me if you've answered this once before earlier in the week
06:41 but I know that you're 27 years of age
06:45 and I just wondered
06:47 it's taken you until the last couple of years
06:50 to really break through at this level
06:52 and now you're having your best tennis now.
06:54 Why did it take so long
06:57 and what has changed that has made you able to do this?
07:00 Well, I think four surgeries
07:06 are not easy to come back.
07:09 I had tough moments in my career.
07:14 Also, apart from the surgeries,
07:17 I had two bones that I broke in the back and the shoulder
07:21 and I had to stop again.
07:22 For the body, I had to stop six or seven times in my career
07:26 for months and start again.
07:28 Also, I was one year out from the tour
07:31 so it's not easy to keep the level and improve the tennis
07:34 when we are always coming back.
07:37 Also, the level that you play when you play futures
07:40 and challenge tournaments,
07:42 you have different levels of tennis as well
07:44 so you need to build your mentality, your tennis
07:48 and I was consolidating myself in these levels
07:51 and I had to fight a lot to be here to build my game.
07:56 Also, I think my team works very hard
07:59 and they are young people who dream the same thing as me
08:03 so I think that's why we are now having our best moments.
08:08 Hi, first of all, congratulations on the big victory.
08:12 You mentioned that you read one of the interviews Novak said
08:16 and his words got into your head and you started believing that you can.
08:18 What was that interview? What were those words?
08:20 Have you maybe met him or spoken to him about this?
08:23 Yeah, I think I said in the speech after my win
08:27 that I was very nervous when I was playing against Sarasuribes
08:33 and the day before my coach sent me the interview
08:37 that he was saying that he feels the nerves, he feels the pressure.
08:43 But I understood that everybody feels it
08:47 and if Djokovic feels it, if Rafa feels it, if everybody feels it
08:50 why wouldn't I feel it?
08:52 So we need to accept, we need to be humble
08:55 and we cannot play against these thoughts.
08:58 So I think this mentality makes me feel like I'm a human being,
09:05 I'm a normal person, I need to work harder to pass through this moment
09:11 to think differently.
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