In pursuit of her seventh straight quarterfinal in Paris, it all became a slippery slope as the match wore on, a capitulation she said needed to be addressed once the dust had settled.
“It’s not great. I know that I lost because I was tense, and my body couldn’t really do what my body – the proper things, you know, but it’s not the first time,” Swiatek said. “So, yeah, just need to work on it. I feel, like, for sure I lost today because Marta used the opportunity, and I was super tense.
“I feel like I can work on that, at least, and there is a reason, and there is maybe a solution. Maybe it’s not going to take one week or one month.
“Maybe it’s going to take even a season or something, but I need to believe that I can work through this and not be thrown off so quickly.”
