Les demi-finales étaient au programme de ce jeudi à Roland-Garros. Dans la première affiche, la n°1 mondiale et double tenante du titre Iga Swiatek a été sans pitié pour la n°3 mondiale Coco Gauff. Tombeuse de l'Américaine en finale en 2022 et en quart en 2023, la Polonaise a encore dompté sa jeune rivale 6-2, 6-4. Dans la seconde rencontre, la tornade italienne Jasmine Paolini a emporté la jeune Mirra Andreeva, 6-3, 6-1. L'épatante transalpine se frottera donc à la reine Swiatek en finale samedi.
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00:00I'm you know really happy really really happy and yeah it's a great feeling to
00:08be in a Grand Slam final I don't know see something impossible you know but
00:16it's true so I'm really happy to to be in this position yeah
00:30Jasmine congratulations to a lot of people maybe who don't follow tennis a
00:34lot or outside Italy they may be just getting to know you from this run here
00:38at Roland Garros so how would you describe to them your your tennis life
00:42so far and also how would you describe yourself as a person off the court I
00:47think I'm really easy person yeah I like to smile to enjoy nothing special you
00:58know normal normal person yeah that's that's myself nothing nothing special
01:11it's a long journey I think I started to play tennis when I was five and I fell
01:17in love with the sport I really like to play tennis I feel good when I play so
01:24yeah it's part of my life yeah I just mean have you ever imagined to be in a
01:32Grand Slam final when you are young or you're a child I don't know that's a
01:38question of course I was watching you know Grand Slam finals I was watching
01:46the other Italians make it in finals and also won Grand Slams but imagine
01:54that can be myself was tough of course I wish it there I wish it but now it's
02:05something you know it's something crazy for me I'm really happy or surprised and
02:10yeah that's the feeling right now you spoke about the importance of dreams on
02:21the court can you remember can you recall your your your your first dream
02:26of tennis what did you dream tennis would be for you or what you would be in
02:31tennis you know when I started to play tennis I was just you know enjoying and
02:38yeah not I was not dreaming too much I was just enjoying playing tennis then I
02:44started to to train like a professional tennis player I was dreaming to become a
02:49professional and I never dreamed to be you know in number one Grand Slam
02:57champion never dreamed so big never never maybe dream to be in the top ten
03:05but I was hoping but not really believe it you know believe in this and I think
03:13step by step I started to to believe but to dream but for closer things you know
03:19not too far and that I think it's not so positive because you know I think it's
03:27important to dream but I started to dream I think step by step no not you
03:34know too too far away for me it's surprising to see you know interviews
03:42from Nolly when I was a kid saying that he wanted to be world number one and
03:48women and I I watched at this and I said it's unbelievable that you can dream as
03:55a child you know I didn't I didn't dream it you know when I was a child it's
03:59unbelievable to see Yannick when he was 15 years old say that the his dream was
04:04to be number one and for me it's something different I I never dreamed to
04:13be I think in the Grand Slam final and I'm here and so happy but it's it's
04:20something different I am a different kind of person I think you're being on
04:25court today compared with okay sorry the feeling you had on court today how
04:32was that different to yesterday and how do you think it will be different to
04:36Saturday today I was so nervous you know it was a different match against me
04:46rather against Elena I lost with her one month ago and it was a really tough
04:53mentally and physically because she's so consistent so I was so nervous but you
05:03know I step on court and I try to to to hit the ball to move fast to to be in
05:10the present to to play point by point and then when I break her in the first
05:16set I started to feel better and better but I think the match was a little bit
05:23different than against Elena you know and Elena is so aggressive so it's it's
05:30different kind of match I think yeah
05:37hi big congratulations so this past of a couple of days you kept you talked about
05:43the importance of like a self-belief and confidence so when you are confidence how
05:50much does your play change I mean what kind of things can you do with when you
05:56are confidence yeah I think my level can raise up you know and I step on court as
06:06I said in those days believing that I can win the match and that I think makes
06:14all the difference you know and to step on court and to to believe that you can
06:20win it's totally different way to to to see the to see the match and yeah when
06:28you are not confident it's it's a little bit more complicated in tennis I think
06:34because it's a really mental sport so it's not easy when you started to lose
06:40match by match and it's easier when you win you won matches so yeah I think
06:49confidence is it helps you to maybe less mistakes more you play more deep you you
06:57take the chances when you have I think that's that's the difference hi Jasmine
07:04I know you have Polish roots and you speak Polish well and eager congratulated
07:09you a new one Dubai earlier this year just wondered what your relationship
07:13is like I try to speak in Polish but it's not easy I'm a little bit shy you
07:20know because I'm not feeling really confident in it but of course when I see
07:27her I say congratulation for the title she can win so and the same she she does
07:37she congratulate me after Dubai she wished me good luck after matches when
07:44we meet in the locker room so yeah I try to speak Polish but you know it's not
07:50easy for me but we have a relationship yeah hi Jasmine I remember you reaching
07:57the final Monastir apparently brought you luck a month ago you lost against
08:03Maya Sharif in room how did you bounce back from that loss what was your
08:09mindset after that loss that match was really tough you know Maya it's a really
08:15tough player I think on on clay court and the condition there in Rome in the
08:21late night and wasn't I think the best for me but yeah I just accepted that I
08:30was focused on double we won the doubles there in Rome I think that give me also
08:35confident to stay in the tournament to have some positive you know vibes and
08:39but you know can happen in tennis not every week is different every week is a
08:45new challenge so it's not easy to to confirm every you know your result every
08:52week just few players can do that and yeah it's unbelievable what the top
08:58players like he got an oleanic are doing it's something crazy yeah Jasmine could
09:08you talk a little bit about what what Renzo has done for you and how he's
09:12helped you this week or so and in the tournament and also about Sarah Irani and
09:16how she's helped you because this is new territory for Renzo but it's not for
09:19Sarah no we speak a lot of the beginning of the tournament the tournament because
09:25I was a little bit nervous in the practice and things weren't going so
09:32well in the practice so you know there was a little bit of tension but then we
09:38spoke a lot with Renzo to try to to understand more myself my feelings and
09:44then match by match was getting better and here we are and of course Sarah yes
09:55it's helping me a lot and also playing Davos with her helped me a lot I think
10:01yeah I can ask her some advices and I think it's a really smart person to have
10:08close you know and so it's something positive of course for me and my team as
10:14well hello just hello Przemek Pozowski the
10:20congrats for your tournament and the game against Andreeva Incredibile but I
10:26will ask about Iga how do you feel before the game with the world number
10:31one Iga which you know for example from Warsaw tournament two years ago and how
10:37do you gonna start the interaction with her maybe you're gonna say hello cześć
10:42in Polish at the beginning yeah I'm gonna say that but you know in Iga it's
10:49unbelievable player as I said so young but so many achievement grand slams here
10:57she won three times she's you know doing well week by week and that's not easy so
11:07I have a huge respect for her but you know I I would like my goal is to to
11:13step on course Saturday and try to enjoy the match to enjoy that moment and to
11:21try to to play a good match and to made to made to make a good performance on
11:27court you know yeah congratulations incredible sometimes tennis is such a
11:37tough tough sport sometimes players they're not so happy but you seem to
11:44have just a great deal of joy can you talk about that where has that come from
11:51does that help sustain you it's not always like that but you know I try
12:00honestly I smile a lot you can see but it's not always like that when I'm not
12:09smiling it means that I'm not feeling great my coach is always worried when I
12:15don't smile you know in the practice in the match he said to me always to enjoy
12:21to to smile because it's important for myself for for me as a person so just
12:30you know smile and take it easy maybe I can say that it's not easy sometimes
12:39because things are not going always well but I'm happy that you know I'm like
12:46that I smile a lot congratulations to a very tough match and also to a very good
12:59run through throughout the last year what's the reason that you're now
13:03playing so much better than you did in most of the early part of your careers
13:08and what do you can you sort of pinpoint one special day or match when you had
13:15the feeling it switched and you're better now than you used to I don't
13:19think there is a you know a special moment when they change I think was like
13:25like a process I started to play better and better to to play better against
13:35also top players because before I was like 6-1 6-1 6-2 6-1 and no match but
13:43then I started to to be there I lost all the matches more or less but against
13:50the top players but I was getting closer and closer you know and that helped me
13:55with the confidence and you know now with more matches let's say in my pocket
14:07I feel more more confidence in my game in myself so as I said many times I step on
14:15court believing that I can win those matches and that's I think the the main
14:23click then I did you know