La marche était trop haute ce samedi pour Jasmine Paolini en finale de ce Roland-Garros 2024. Malgré un départ intéressant avec un break pour mener 2 jeux à 1, l'Italienne a ensuite été écrasée et n'a pu sauver qu'un seul petit jeu contre Iga Swiatek, victorieuse 6-2, 6-1. Cela n'enlève rien à la superbe quinzaine de Paolini, éblouissante jusqu'en finale. Elle sera d'ailleurs logiquement dans le Top 10 lundi, à la 7e place.
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00:03 Okay, we will go ahead and get started.
00:05 Jasmin, I know it's not the result you wanted today,
00:07 but just how proud are you of making it here to the Roland Garros final
00:10 and competing out there today?
00:12 Yeah, it was tough, but it was also fun.
00:16 I mean, to play a Grand Slam final, it's beautiful.
00:22 I mean, I hope to play.
00:27 I mean, I think I played a tough match,
00:32 but I gave my 100 percent.
00:34 And it's a very huge opponent, but, you know, I enjoyed out there.
00:40 So, I'm happy with myself.
00:42 Absolutely.
00:43 All right, we'll start with English questions first.
00:45 Question up front.
00:51 Congratulations.
00:52 Thank you.
00:53 And good luck tomorrow as well.
00:54 Thank you.
00:55 Tom, concerning your run here and the fact that it's now put you in the top ten,
00:59 I wonder if you've had time to sort of process that,
01:01 that you'll be number seven in the world.
01:03 And what do you think it will be like to play the next season as a top ten player?
01:08 I don't know.
01:09 I really didn't think too much about this.
01:12 But, yeah, of course I'm really happy.
01:14 And now it's a strange feeling, you know.
01:18 I just lost the final.
01:20 But I think I have to be happy of those two weeks, you know, my new ranking.
01:28 So, it's a happy moment for me.
01:32 It's not a sad moment.
01:33 Yeah, I have to admit that to try to see the things like that.
01:40 Hi, Jasmine.
01:41 Hi.
01:42 Well done this tournament.
01:43 Thank you.
01:44 Have you been thinking the last few months that the trajectory,
01:48 the arc of your career is changing?
01:51 And that you've entered a different phase?
01:55 Or have you been thinking, like,
01:57 "I'm just in a really good place at this moment"?
02:00 I mean, I was playing better and better.
02:07 And I think I was trying to, you know,
02:11 step on court and try to do one more step forward to keep going.
02:17 I don't know where this journey is going to--
02:22 I don't know how to say to--
02:25 Let me--
02:30 Take me.
02:31 Take me.
02:32 Take me.
02:33 Thank you.
02:34 Grazie.
02:35 To take me.
02:36 But I'm curious to discover that I'm trying to step on court every day
02:42 and to give my 100 percent.
02:44 And let's see what the future will bring to me.
02:48 Hi, Jasmine.
02:51 First of all, congratulations for being in the finals.
02:54 Last year, I was there in court number six
02:56 when you played Olga Danilovic and lost that match on Roland Garros.
02:59 Do you remember that match?
03:01 And what are the things that you changed?
03:03 I mean, from losing to court number six
03:05 to being in top form on Filip Shatria playing the finals.
03:08 So a lot has changed.
03:09 Yeah, I remember that match too was really painful.
03:13 No, it was a tough match.
03:15 I mean, she played really good and she played good here.
03:18 But I think--
03:20 Yeah, I am a little bit more consistent.
03:25 Through all this year, I have been more consistent.
03:29 And that, I think, helped me to take also chances
03:33 when the chances are coming, you know.
03:35 Yeah, I think that's the difference.
03:38 But, you know, we still try to improve
03:42 because I think it's the most important thing
03:45 to step on court every day and try to improve
03:48 and to keep this consistency.
03:51 Because if you stop, I think the consistency will stop with you.
03:55 Hi, Jasmine. Congrats.
04:02 You said on court that Iga is--
04:04 playing her here is one of the toughest things in tennis.
04:08 Could you explain why it's so difficult to play against her?
04:11 I don't know.
04:13 I mean, she's playing unbelievably here.
04:16 She's taking the balls early, taking time to you.
04:21 But also using rotation, she can defend really, really well.
04:26 On clay, she's unbelievable.
04:30 Also on hard court, come on.
04:31 She won so many tournaments this year.
04:34 But I think to play her here, it's something different.
04:40 She won already four titles and she's still 22 years old.
04:44 So these numbers are not, let's say, normal.
04:49 It's something unbelievable.
04:51 Yeah, I think--
04:53 Yeah, she's an unbelievable player.
04:55 Hi, Jasmine.
04:58 Just building on that question, I suppose.
05:00 Do you think there's anything differently you could have done today?
05:02 Or was it just playing an opponent at too high a level?
05:06 I don't know.
05:09 I tried my best today.
05:11 Maybe I could do some--
05:17 I don't know, more games to try to be more in the match.
05:23 I don't know.
05:24 Maybe she could do more mistakes.
05:26 Maybe not, because she was playing an unbelievable level, I think, all the match.
05:30 No mistakes, hitting with nerves.
05:32 I mean, I tried to play my best, but it's not easy, I think, also to play at that intensity.
05:40 I never played a player that has this intensity before in my life.
05:47 So it was my first time facing a player that is taking time as much as she does.
05:58 But also hitting with nerves and being close on the court.
06:02 So for me, right now, I think it was the most challenging match I played in my entire career.
06:12 Hi, Jasmine.
06:15 You said a couple of days ago that you dream step by step, which is a really interesting insight.
06:22 You've reached the Grand Slam final now, world number seven.
06:25 What's the next dream?
06:26 I don't know.
06:27 At the moment, I don't know.
06:29 No, you know, I think my goal right now is to try to keep this level, to, let's say, play against Iga one more time.
06:46 I don't know where it can be.
06:48 Second round, can be first round.
06:50 I don't care.
06:52 I think to play against her can give me something to add things to my game.
07:02 It's challenging, but at the same time, I can understand more what I have to improve, what I have to add to my game.
07:13 So I'm enjoying the moment, as I said.
07:17 I love to play at this level with those players.
07:21 I play with Rybakina, which is world number four.
07:25 I play with Iga, which is world number one.
07:28 I don't know where the future can bring me.
07:33 I don't know which one is my next dream, but I'm enjoying the moment.
07:39 I'm in the present, and I think it's nice to discover step by step.
07:48 Just curious, you played her a couple of years ago.
07:51 Do you find her as intense now as she was then?
07:57 I think today was tougher than the last time.
08:00 Last time was 6-3, 6-0, something like that.
08:03 But I feel that today was tougher.
08:06 I think I'm playing better than two years ago, I think.
08:13 But she's playing better too.
08:17 Especially on this surface.
08:19 I don't know.
08:21 I think this one was more difficult.
08:26 Do you think you could play with that kind of intensity?
08:31 I think I played four games at that intensity.
08:37 Then it was tough.
08:39 But I was trying to hit the ball as hard as I could.
08:46 Because trying to put the ball into the court was a winner.
08:50 You have to push, push, push every ball.
08:54 Because if not, you have no chance to play the points.
08:58 I know that.
09:01 Now I will try, maybe in practice, to have more intensity.
09:07 Next time I hope I face her again to try to be more in the game.
09:15 In the match.
09:16 I would like to take a look back to Dubai in the first round.
09:22 You had this crazy match against Beatriz Almadmaya.
09:25 You were losing 2-6-0-4.
09:27 You won that match, you won the tournament.
09:30 Are you sometimes thinking about that match?
09:33 What happened since then until now?
09:35 Not much.
09:40 Sometimes when you lose like this and you go out of trouble in the first round of the tournament,
09:47 it happens that you can win the tournament.
09:49 You see it here.
09:51 But it happens a lot of times.
09:54 I don't know.
10:00 I think I was playing better.
10:02 Of course, that match changed a little bit the tournament and the ranking as well.
10:09 It gave me confidence to make any other good result.
10:13 But I don't know if that match really changed my career.
10:19 I don't know. Maybe.
10:21 But every match is important.
10:23 I could win that match and lose in the second round.
10:26 I don't know. It's not like that.
10:30 Jasmina, you broke Iga early in the game, in the first set.
10:36 And then suddenly it looked like you were just defending yourself and running left to right, right to left.
10:41 Could you run us through your thoughts during the match?
10:46 It's not easy, as I said, because I was trying to put intensity into the game.
11:00 But also it stressed me a little bit.
11:04 Sometimes I was going down the line instead of crossing to try to move her.
11:10 Because if not, she was moving myself.
11:12 I don't know. Maybe I was going a little bit down with intensity.
11:19 And she was the same level, I think, all the match.
11:23 And that, I think, is the big difference.
11:28 Then, of course, there are a lot of other differences.
11:33 But that one is the main one.
11:35 She kept the intensity all the game, all the balls and all the points.
11:40 And it's not easy to stay there.
11:43 There was Chris Evert on the court.
11:52 She has seven Grand Slams here in Roland-Garros.
11:56 Do you think one day Zviatek can beat her?
12:00 Definitely.
12:03 No, I don't know.
12:04 She's 22 years old and she has already four.
12:08 I think, yes, she can win three more.
12:15 But I don't know. Let's see.
12:18 It's tough. It's not easy.
12:21 Every year it's tough to win a tournament.
12:24 She already won four times.
12:26 But I think she can do it.
12:28 She can do it.
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