La menace planait à New-York : la pression a peut-être été trop forte... Iga Swiatek semblait être en promenade de santé à Flushing Meadows. Très solide contre Rebecca Peterson, Daria Saville puis sa meilleure amie, la Slovène Kaja Juvan, la n°1 mondiale a été surprise une nouvelle fois par sa bête noire dimanche soir, Jelena Ostapenko. La Lettone, qui menait 3-0 contre Swiatek, a ajouté une quatrième victoire à son palmarès. Une défaite 3-6, 6-3, 6-1 dès les huitièmes de finale qui a son importance. Lundi prochain, la Polonaise perdra sa place de n°1 mondiale au profit d'Aryna Sabalenka. Déçue et dans l'incompréhension après sa défaite, Swiatek a également montré un curieux soulagement en conférence de presse. Comme si la native de Varsovie était libérée d'un poids... celui de la couronne de la WTA.
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00:00 I think she plays well against me, but I mean I don't have any comparison because she always did that
00:07 but
00:10 We're good, but I'm just
00:14 You know surprised that my level changed so drastically
00:18 Because usually when I play bad I play bad at the beginning and then I kind of catch up or just problem solved
00:24 But this time it was totally the opposite, so I don't really know what happened with my game
00:29 I felt no control suddenly and
00:31 And I just have to watch and see because from yeah, I didn't really know why I was I started making so many mistakes
00:40 you know
00:41 well for sure I'm not happy with my performances on hard courts in terms of the grandsons this year, but
00:46 You know I think overall you know with my history this season. I I've made a pretty good job. You know just
00:56 Staying on a constant level maybe except you know some matches that I shouldn't
01:01 But
01:05 But yeah, I mean I'm happy that I'm gonna have some time now to practice because I really really need that and I really miss that
01:11 because of my injury in
01:14 before like after Indian Wells before Stuttgart
01:18 I basically had two weeks of practicing besides one week. You know on grass and
01:25 There's no time to do that when you want to play all these tournaments, and you miss Miami, and you kind of need to you know
01:31 Play all the other ones, so I'm just happy that now. I'll have time to just reset and and go home for a while
01:37 And just you know spend time a little bit more differently than on tour
01:42 Well usually usually it's kind of easy because I mean it's never easy
01:47 But I usually I know what to do and usually I can feel what I'm doing wrong
01:51 but this time I don't know like my mistakes were like so huge and and I I
01:58 Had no idea why suddenly you know I couldn't return
02:01 I'm a good returner
02:03 So I was focused on you know the same things as in first set and the same things overall when you know
02:10 My game is working so
02:12 So I don't know. I don't know I need to watch. Maybe this will give me some answers, but
02:17 overall
02:20 It's just that it doesn't happen often for me when I
02:22 Start playing so badly. You know it's a positive thing overall, but
02:27 But I'm just surprised a little bit, so I have to analyze you've held
02:32 Number one for a long time now as a first-time number one player
02:38 What does that meant to you and what are your thoughts right now about?
02:42 What it would need what you would need to do to get back there. Well it meant a lot obviously
02:49 It was great, but on the other hand this last part
02:52 It was pretty exhausting
02:55 I still need to you know do all this stuff that my team and you know all these great players like Roger
03:02 Novak or Rafa are telling about you just have to focus on you know the tournaments not the rankings, but for me
03:09 It's I don't know it's like
03:11 I'm I love number. I mean usually I'm not looking at numbers, but overall like I love them
03:19 And I I would love to like
03:21 Extend this record a little bit longer
03:23 This is something that you know when I was younger I actually kind of wanted to
03:28 Break some record or have something you know I already did that because I'm I already won a slam as a first Polish player
03:36 You know and obviously being number one
03:38 As a third player in history is something great, but for sure when it happens when you lose it. There are some you know sad emotions, but
03:47 Yeah, as I said at the beginning. You know all these best players
03:50 They know it's gonna come back if you're just gonna work harder, and you're gonna focus on the right things
03:55 and you're gonna you know just
03:57 develop as a player and
03:59 You know for sure besides this this match which was pretty weird. I feel like I'm I am progressing as a player
04:06 I have you know more skills
04:08 This season was I mean it still is but the hardest part is like
04:13 Already done for me
04:17 this season like was really tough and intense and it's not easy to cope with like all of this stuff and
04:23 Yeah, I'm just happy that I'll have time to reset a little bit
04:30 It sounds like you know the number one ranking was weighing on you to some extent
04:35 And it's you know there are pros and cons to it is there any feeling of relief for you
04:40 well the thing is that I kind of I
04:45 Wouldn't say relief
04:47 there are like plenty of things or like
04:50 That's I know I should done. I should have done differently, but maybe I'm not mature enough yet to like do that
04:58 You know I'm I'm really working hard to like nuts
05:01 That's do not think about this stuff a lot
05:06 But you know sometimes when you force yourself not to think about stuff. It's the result is the opposite so
05:13 I'm really happy that I have like smart people around me, and they are like telling me
05:17 how to do it and how to and they're guiding me, but it's on me you know to actually make it happen and
05:26 and for sure when I'm gonna be
05:29 next time in the same situation, I'm gonna do some stuff differently because
05:33 Yeah, it was a little bit stressful
05:36 And it shouldn't be I mean tennis is stressful overall but
05:41 but I should like embrace it a little bit more and
05:44 And I'll do it differently next time so I guess that's positive