Russian tennis player Daria Kasatkina couldn’t handle the excitement and pace of the WTA ranking leader Igi Schwentek in the semi-finals of Roland Garros, the chances of the Russians to win were low, said the ex-third racket in the world Nadezhda Petrova .
The Russian lost to the polka on Thursday with the score 2:6, 1:6. Earlier this season, Shventek beat Kasatkina three times.
– Dasha has had unstable results this season. But she approached Roland Garros in great shape. The last tournaments went well. She played a good number of games, which I think gave her confidence. On the grid, she had no serious rivals. She went very well, beat Kudermetova in the quarter-finals. And she won that match because she demonstrated the right tennis specifically for the court: with rotation, high, used the whole court, running under her favorite right hand. But today Sventek is playing with a lot of confidence, consistently, close to the line. She distributes the ball well on the field, practically does not make mistakes, acts competently in the lead.
Honestly, I knew how it would end. I doubted Kasatkina could force a fight. Dasha acted too far off the line and the polka played aggressively, ahead of the curve. Kasatkina just couldn’t handle the pace and excitement of the semi-final, after all, center court… Maybe if she had a day off it would be good. Excitement? Of course. It’s difficult, for the first time in his life, to be at such a stage of the tournament and show his best tennis. I’m sure all of Dasha’s major victories are yet to come! Petrova said in an interview with RT.
In the men’s group of the tournament, Russian Andrey Rublev lost in five sets to Croatian Marin Cilic in the quarter-finals – 7:5, 3:6, 4:6, 6:3, 6:7 (2:10) .
– It’s a pity that Rublev didn’t reach the Grand Slam semi-finals. I could try my luck, because Cilic is not quite a clay court player, he is more suited to fast coverings, he won the US Open. Perhaps it was that experience of playing in the final stages of the tournament that Andrey lacked. Cilic believed more in his own strength and that he could win the game. I think it was thanks to this that he managed to be stronger than Rublev at the decisive moment, noted Petrova.
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Source : MatchTV
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