She took a big blow on the box. To the point of finishing flattened as rarely before. Beaten 6-1, 6-1 by a coconut gauff half-female half-roller compressor, iga świątek, at the bottom of the hole, has known only one worse debacle since the start of her career. It was against Simona Halep at Roland-Garros in 2019: 6-1, 6-0.
On the main circuit, it had happened to him three other times to see his counter stay blocking with two gleaned games. The same year, that of her 18th birthday, she lost 6-2, 6-0 against Camila Giorgi at the Australian Open, then 6-2, 6-0 in front of Natalia Vikhlyantseva in Fed Cup and Jeļena Ostapenko in Birmingham.
“I was aggressive, while keeping security,” said Gauff during the interview on the court. “Maybe she was not at her best, but I think I pushed her to be in delicate positions. I knew that at any time she could come back and play super tennis. I had to drop in level, and I even managed to increase it in the second set. »»
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