Tennis-Swiatek blames tactical confusion for defeat

LONDON – Iga Swiatek has one of many sharpest minds in girls’s tennis however admitted she confused herself along with her ways in a shock defeat by Alize Cornet within the Wimbledon third spherical on Saturday.

The Pole was red-hot favorite for the title and was on a 37-match profitable streak heading into her conflict with Cornet, however hit 33 unforced errors in a dismal 6-4 6-2 defeat.

“What can I say? I do know I didn’t play good tennis. I used to be fairly confused about my ways,” she mentioned. “As a strong participant, she used that fairly nicely. It wasn’t good efficiency for me.”

Swiatek fell 3-0 behind within the opener earlier than discovering her ft and was 2-0 forward within the second set solely to lose six successive video games and crash out on Court docket One.

Requested to clarify how she misplaced the final six video games with out placing up a lot resistance, she mentioned: “Often after I’m coming again, I've some type of a plan and I do know what to alter. Right here I didn’t know what to alter. I used to be confused.

“On grass courtroom every little thing occurs so shortly.

“Principally the factor that I modified this season is I began being an increasing number of aggressive. It was actually snug for me to have the initiative and be proactive.

“However right here I couldn’t management the ball. So I wanted to decelerate slightly bit. Then within the second set, I type of made few makes an attempt to hurry up once more, and it didn’t work out.”

Twice French Open champion Swiatek had not appeared completely snug in her opening two rounds and the 21-year-old was taken to 3 units on Thursday by fortunate loser from qualifying Lesley Pattinama Kerkhove.

Within the build-up to Wimbledon she didn't compete on grass and admits that the floor remains to be a puzzle.

“I attempted many issues to really feel higher on courtroom, on grass courts, however it didn’t actually work out,” she mentioned.

“That’s why I’m not even exhausting on myself as a result of, it’s type of logic that if I couldn’t discover it even on practices, I’m not going to seek out it in a match.”

On the finish of a streak that matched Martina Hingis’s within the 1997 season, she mentioned she would look again with satisfaction.

“Proper now even I'm glad with this streak, so I’m completely happy that I used to be in a position to try this,” she mentioned.

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