Iga Swiatek a passé une soirée difficile face à Jessica Pegula à l'US Open, en s'inclinant 6-2, 6-4 en quarts de finale. La Polonaise, qui critiquait quelques jours plus tôt la programmation des tournois sur le circuit WTA, ne souhaite cependant pas faire une pause.
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00:00Well, for sure, it wasn't a good performance from myself, but Jessie used it, so she played
00:10better, I played worse, and she won.
00:13If I didn't get to you in press conference one, I will now.
00:17Darcy, do you have a question?
00:20Sure, I can.
00:21Okay.
00:22DarcyMainEspin.com, what do you, you know, at what point in this match did you start
00:27to feel like something was perhaps a little bit off, and what did you do early to try
00:32to kind of correct it?
00:35Well, probably when it was, when I was losing 4-0 in the first set, I tried to do the same
00:45kind of work as usual.
00:47I didn't really understand why I was, why my serve wasn't working, and it was hard for
00:55me to find like a proper solution for that.
00:58Matt.
00:59I have a tough one tonight.
01:04You have rightfully spoken about how long the schedule is, and how exhausted you've
01:08been, and how stressful it is.
01:10Would you consider just taking a few months off, and trying to refresh, and just, you
01:15know, if you're tired, why not take a rest?
01:20No, I don't think it would make sense.
01:24If you're out of tour, then it's pretty hard to come back.
01:30Even you?
01:33I mean, but I don't want to take a break, so.
01:39I mean, it's tough.
01:41I mean, it could be a little bit easier, but I'm keeping up with the schedule.
01:49I'm pretty, I'm only talking about mandatory tournaments, and there are rules about mandatory
01:56tournaments.
01:58But I'm ready for playing till November, I guess, unless I'm going to get injured.
02:03Okay.
02:04In the back.
02:05Hi, Iga.
02:06Catherine Mitko, The Tennis Podcast.
02:07Obviously, the U.S. Open is always a test of kind of endurance to some degree, just
02:13because of where it is in the calendar, and how long the season is.
02:16I just wondered, with this an Olympic year, and the extra tennis that that's required,
02:21if you could compare how you feel and have felt during this U.S. Open compared to non-Olympic
02:27years?
02:28Well, it's hard for me to compare, because every year I have, like, different challenges.
02:33Like, for example, last year I felt like a lot of, I don't know, anxiety and pressure
02:40with, like, being World No. 1, and I don't know, feeling that I might lose it, you know?
02:47And this year I didn't feel it that much.
02:50I feel, like, more mature in terms of not really thinking about the rankings and the
02:55points.
02:56So I think on this tournament, yeah, it's hard for me to, like, compare, because there
03:05are so many other factors, except the Olympics that come in, that it's hard to judge.
03:10But for sure, you know, one less tournament on hardcourt, a little bit less time to play
03:16on hardcourt, maybe that matters, but honestly, I'm not that experienced to know.
03:20Howard?
03:21Hi, Howard Fenrich with the Associated Press.
03:26Were there things that Jess was doing that made life difficult for you out there tonight?
03:33Well, as I said before, like, it's never easy to play against Jess.
03:38She has a tricky ball, because it's pretty low and pretty flat, but I wouldn't say she
03:48changed, like, a lot, because it's impossible to change your game style, but for sure, she
03:52was for sure, like, more solid than me and making much less mistakes, so because of that,
03:59she was kind of putting, you know, pressure with that, but usually I'm able to push it
04:05back or put pressure on myself, but today I just made too many mistakes.
04:08We'll take a couple more.
04:09Diane DiCostanzo with the STA.
04:10I think you said coming into the tournament that you had lower expectations for yourself.
04:11Was that because of how you were playing, or more because you were taking the pressure
04:12off yourself?
04:23Well, I'm always trying to have lower expectations, because I know that, like, any of us can win
04:30this tournament, and it's not going to be easy, you know, and also I feel like when
04:36I have high expectations, they never, I never perform well, so I try to lower them, like,
04:44it's not like it's just low and that's it, you know, because it's hard to have low expectations
04:49when everybody's expecting something from you, and you kind of know that you might have
04:55a game to play well, you know, so, but for sure, I mean, I remember how it was last year,
05:03and you know, I'm not going to just expect from myself that I'm always going to win.
05:11I'm more just focusing on the work, and it's more of an answer, because when I talk to
05:18you guys, because everybody's always, like, speaking about results straight away when
05:22you go in a tournament, they want to know what my goal is, I don't know, winning the
05:26final, the semi-final, and it's just not it, you know, these are not my goals when I go
05:30in a tournament, so that's my answer, kind of, because I want to explain that I don't
05:36expect from myself the results, I'm more expecting, you know, that I'm going to work, and I'm
05:40going to go through some problems and work on them, and that's it.
05:46Court, last question in English.
05:48Iga, early in the first set, when you kind of started to notice that the serve wasn't
05:54maybe working, how much of it, when you talk about finding solutions, like, what was your
05:59training, I guess, in that moment to try, and did you find that it was cascading, kind
06:05of like domino effect, like, you were distracted by that, you know what I mean, like, or was
06:10it just everything wasn't working?
06:11Not really, on one hand, I was kind of telling myself that I can still, you know, play well
06:18from the baseline, and I've had many tournaments when I didn't serve well, and I managed to,
06:23you know, win anyway, but I probably didn't find the right solution, because I couldn't
06:35push with my serve, also, I wasn't that solid from the baseline to have a backup, you know,
06:47like that.
06:48I mean, it's just math, I mean, you're not going to win if you make so many mistakes,
06:55and I made those, and I mean, it's on me.
06:59Okay, thank you, everyone.
07:01Any questions?
07:02Great.
07:03Okay.
07:05Good evening.
07:06First of all, I'd like to ask you how do you feel physically, because you've been here
07:09for three weeks, and the temperatures in New York were hot at first, then it was a bit
07:15cooler.
07:16Is everything okay?
07:17Healthy?
07:18Everything's okay.
07:19If you had the chance to wake up today again, would there be anything you would do differently
07:26when it comes to preparing for the meeting?
07:30I don't think so, because both my plan and tactics made sense, it was just worse with
07:41the execution and the mistakes I made.
07:45I don't know.
07:46For now, I don't have an idea how to approach this match differently to win it.
07:51Maybe I'll have an idea when I sit down, analyze it and talk to my coach.
07:56In the second set, there was a situation where you broke your back and then you held your
08:03submission.
08:04Did you feel like you were coming back?
08:06Did you have a feeling that it was your best moment?
08:09I just felt that even though I lost the first set, the match was still going on and I could
08:16win the next two.
08:17I just wanted to leave the first set behind me and start the match from scratch.
08:23Later on, I broke my back because I made some mistakes and made some risky decisions.
08:31Not a lot of things worked out for me today.
08:35At some point, I felt that the match was getting more and more tense, but I definitely
08:40didn't feel that I was dominating or that I was pressuring.
08:47What are your plans for the future?
08:50Will you stay in New York?
08:52No, I won't.
08:53I won't stay, but I don't know.
08:55When I go back to the court, I'll probably have...
08:58I really don't know.
09:00I haven't talked to my coaches.
09:02I usually have 5-6 days off.
09:04And then...
09:06Yes, I'll go back to Poland and then we'll have China Swing.