"It’s the first time I don’t know what to say": Maria Sakkari lost of words after yet another disappointing Grand Slam performance
WTAWednesday, 29 May 2024 at 12:45
Greece’s tennis star Maria Sakkari stated that she had no idea what to say after suffering an early exit from the French Open. The
28-year-old lost in the first-round at the Roland Garros to France’s Varvara Gracheva
with a score of 3-6, 6-4, 6-3 on Monday.
Interestingly, the former world number three and current
world number eight in the women’s singles category has only managed to play in
the quarterfinals or beyond of a Grand Slam twice in her career despite playing
in the main round 33 times.
Those numbers are astounding, to say the least, especially for a player who is often known as one of the best in the game currently playing in the singles category.
Sakkari, while talking to the media after the match,
admitted that she no idea what to say anymore and also suggested that the
results in big events is mainly down to psychological issues.
"It’s the first time I don’t know what to say,” she
said. “I’ve been very well these days. It was very sudden for me too, I started
feeling intense anxiety before the match. I would really like to give the right
answers, but all I have to say is that I have been very well these days.
Maria Sakkar lost in the first-round at the Roland Garros to France’s Varvara Gracheva with a score of 3-6, 6-4, 6-3.
"No matter what set I played, no matter what practice I
did, everyone could see that I was fine. It’s definitely psychological, purely.
It’s nothing else."
"I won the first set and I kept getting nervous. My
pulse was very high throughout the match, especially until the middle of the
third setI was feeling a panic, it’s not like I won the first set and relaxed.
Maybe if I had broken the first game of the second set things would have been
different."
"But what can we say now?’ It’s purely psychological,
I’m not hiding. I will not look for excuses. I put too much pressure on myself,
not to lose another game in the first or second round of a Grand Slam."
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