After going down 5-4 in the third, I just sort of told myself, "Okay,
listen, you have to play aggressive. You have to go for your shots, and
nobody's going to give you the quarterfinals just because you're nice, so go gain it"
Andrea Petkovic
I’m really happy I’m in quarterfinals for the first time in my life here
because I love Paris....I have a lot of confidence in myself. Day by day
I play better.
Simona Halep
All the points were very tough. I just tried to be focused.
Sara Errani
I could have lost first round; that would have been real bad, right?
Sloane Stephens
The WTA should investigate Halep for anti-American activities. It was
painful to watch how she kept hitting the ball away from Stephens, to
prevent the American from hitting clean shots. She also quite obviously
used excessive spin to confuse the American player and intentionally
returned balls that Stephens thought would be winners. On repeated
occasions she chased down drop shots that should have been winners. It
is also deeply disturbing that the line judges joined in this xenophobic
attitude, calling out Stephens' shots that had landed barely several
feet outside the lines. To add insult to injury, the umpire awarded the
match to Halep 6-4 6-3, without regard for artistic expression and self-professed big tournament experience by Stephens.
From a comment on Tennis.com
I wanted her...to run a lot on court, and I think I played aggressive, and I dominated the match, I think.
Simona Halep
I didn't feel like dancing. But people were coming just to see the
dance. They were like, "Andrea, dance, dance." Then I sort of did it to
don't disappoint the people.
Andrea Petkovic
3 comments:
Love the tennis.com comment. It is interesting that Stephens was reported saying ater the match that it was difficult to play a person that was so consistent in the last 9 months (really it has been longer) when earlier Stephens seemed to run down the "smaller tournaments".
Stephens has so much talent and I want to root for her but someone needs to tell her to care about the tournaments between the majors. As I have said before she won't know how to play in the really big moments or against the higher ranked players if she doesn't play them outside the majors. Serena has been no 1 for so long and has 60 titles, making strides as a legend, because
she has embraced the tour.
Added to above sorry.
I don't think any of us can know what's really going on with Sloane; Sloane may not even know what's going on. It's an odd phenomenon, this pattern she has. She does have a lot of raw talent, but that goes only so far.
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