US Open 2023 - Coco Gauff : “I feel emotionally fresh, which I think was the problem in the past at Grand Slams”
Coco Gauff, qui réalise un excellent été américain avec deux titres à Washington et Cincinnati, a été impériale en quarts de l'US Open mardi soir. En à peine à une heure, l'Américaine a écrasé la Lettonne en deux sets 6-0, 6-2, avec un premier set qui aura duré seulement 20 minutes. Même si Jelena Ostapenko n'y était pas, Gauff confirme son excellente forme en décrochant sa première demie à New York, sa 2e en Grand Chelem. Elle est sur les traces de Serena Williams qui était la dernière teenager américaine à ce niveau de la compétition. En conférence de presse, elle a évoqué ses récents progrès et n'a pas contredit Jelena Ostapenko qui s'est sentie défavorisée.
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00:00 I learned that you know there's still a lot of tennis left to play and it's a long match and a long tournament
00:06 And you know even though the semi-finals by theory if you want to win there's two matches left, but it's
00:11 You can't think like that. I'm still in the mindset that I'm in the beginning of the tournament
00:16 I think that's what I've learned
00:18 You know in the past of being in quarterfinals before I would think you know close to the end
00:22 But right now I have the mentality that I told myself I still have another
00:27 Two weeks to play so that's where my mind is that and then obviously when it's over it's over, but right now
00:34 I'm just saying another two weeks and also. I think it's what's helping is playing from DC to Montreal to Cincinnati that was a long
00:41 Type of swing so I think doing well in those tournaments built my mental endurance always had the physical endurance
00:48 But it built my mental endurance so right now. I'm not I feel emotionally fresh
00:52 Which I think was the problem in the past and grandstands. I would emotionally be drained, but
00:58 Obviously I'm physically fresh and emotionally fresh
01:00 And I think that's just came from experience, and I think this is one of the harder runs. I've had to the
01:05 quarterfinal stage
01:07 Obviously never got to the semis
01:08 But I don't know I just feel so fresh to be honest
01:12 And I I don't know if it's because I've been tricking myself or maybe this is over
01:15 I'm gonna hit a wall, but I'm like really
01:17 Proud of how I'm able to get through these matches. How do you do that so fast?
01:22 How do you take the pressure off of your shoulders and actually find that joy in practice?
01:27 I think it's just putting my life into perspective perspective
01:31 I mean at first I used to think negative things like why is it so much pressure?
01:36 Why is this so hard blah blah blah and I realize that this isn't a like in a way is pressure
01:41 But it's not I mean there's people struggling to feed their families
01:44 There's people you don't know when their next meal is gonna come from these people who have to pay their bills
01:48 And that's real pressure. That's real hardship. That's real life
01:52 And this I'm in a very privileged position
01:55 I'm getting paid to do what I love and getting support to do what I love and that's something that I don't take for granted
02:02 So really I just put my life into perspective
02:05 Especially in New York. I just feel like you see that perspective a lot more
02:09 Especially compared to where I live and I'm just like I mean this is I'm a lucky life
02:14 And so I should enjoy it
02:15 I would I know there's millions of people who probably want to be in this position that I am now
02:20 So instead of saying why this why that I should just be like, you know, why not me?
02:24 Why I should why am I not enjoying this I should and yeah, I just told myself man. I'm having I should enjoy this
02:31 I'm having so much fun doing it and I should not think about the results and think about this
02:35 I'm very lucky life, and I'm so blessed and I'm don't want to take it for granted
02:39 So that's the reason why I think it's just putting my life in perspective and realizing how grateful and blessed I am