Iga Swiatek stumped by ‘loss of control’ in US Open exit
Poland’s Iga Swiatek sits between video games through the US Open tennis event girls’s singles spherical of 16 match towards Latvia’s Jelena Ostapenko on the USTA Billie Jean King Nationwide Tennis Middle in New York Metropolis, on September 3, 2023. (Photograph by COREY SIPKIN / AFP)
Iga Swiatek stated she was at a loss to explain the best way through which her US Open title protection was left in ruins Sunday in a last-16 defeat to Latvia’s Jelena Ostapenko.
The Pole misplaced for the fourth time in as many conferences with the gifted however inconsistent Ostapenko, who roared again to clinch a 3-6, 6-3, 6-1 victory after dominating the ultimate two units.
“She performs properly towards me. I imply, I don’t have any comparability as a result of she at all times did that,” stated Swiatek.
“However I’m simply shocked that my stage modified so drastically as a result of normally once I play dangerous, I play dangerous in the beginning, then I sort of catch up or simply downside resolve. This time it was completely the alternative.
“I don’t actually know what occurred with my sport. I felt no management all of the sudden. I simply have to look at and see ’trigger, yeah, I didn’t actually know why I began making so many errors.”
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— US Open Tennis (@usopen) September 4, 2023
The 22-year-old Swiatek will lose her standing as world primary following the US Open, with Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus set to take over high spot.
Swiatek had cruised into the fourth spherical in New York after not dropping a set in her first three matches, trying in prime kind to defend the title she received final yr.
However Sunday’s defeat will snap her 75-week reign on the summit.
“Normally I’m not taking a look at numbers, however total I like them. I might like to, like, prolong this document just a little bit longer,” stated Swiatek, a five-time Grand Slam champion.
“That is one thing that once I was youthful, I truly sort of needed to interrupt some document or have one thing.
“I already did that ’trigger I already received a Slam as a primary Polish participant. Clearly being No. 1 because the third participant in historical past is nice.
“However for certain when it occurs, once you lose it, there are some unhappy feelings.
“All these nice gamers realize it’s going to return again in the event you’re going to work exhausting, concentrate on the correct issues, simply develop as a participant.”
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