Iga Świątek after an impressive victory with Madison Keys in the quarter -finals of the WTA 1000 tournament in Madrid, she had no chance with Coco Gauff. The Polish woman fell 1: 6, 1: 6, which was the most painful failure in recent years. After this meeting, it turned out that he had mental problems. “She lost confidence again and lost to herself again. The problem was not that Coco Gauff served 200 km/h, or that she was beating furiously and from Bekhendu, and forhendu” – wrote Łukasz Jachimiak from Sport.pl.
Coco Goufff threw an unobvious sentence. It's about rivalry with Iga Świątek
– She is very talented and can make you run on the court. I tried not to let her. (…) It was not her great day, but every time I play with her, I feel that she is one of the best players in Tour. He probably thinks about this performance, or maybe at all this week, and maybe she was not at its level, but in general I think she is a great player – admitted Coco Gauff after winning with Iga Świątek.
Thursday match was the 15th direct meeting between the two tennis players. Although it was already 7: 0, and then 11: 1 in favor of a Polish woman, in the last three clashes Gauff probably won, not even giving away the set. “I can't believe that Iga and I have already played with each other 15 times,” she began. – I am 21 years old and she is 23, we are very young and we have at least ten years in front of us in this sport – the American said at a press conference.
And she threw an unobvious sentence. “I think we can end up setting the record of the largest number of direct matches,” she confessed. However, this will not be a simple task, because Chris Evert and Martin Navratilov played with each other 80 times in 1973-1988. Closer to the result of the Williams sisters – Serena and Venus, which played 30 matches.
Gauff and Świątek will soon start struggling in Rome. A year ago they faced the semi -final and then a Polish woman won a certain victory, who won the whole tournament. This time they can only hit themselves in the final. We already know who our tennis player can play in the first stages.
Just before the start of the upcoming competitions, a comprehensive text about the 23-year-old was published by Tennisfever.it. “Polish champion plunged into a real, endless crisis” – It was handed over in the introduction.
Then it was mentioned that the Polish woman lost her grandfather before the tournament and participated in the funeral, which was confirmed by the manager Daria Sulgostowska. Could it go on her? “The burden of a family tragedy can be the key to understanding the unstable mental situation of the master,” it was written.