Multiple champion of the USSR commentator Anna Dmitrieva in a conversation with said that the Russian tennis player Daria Kasatkina not well prepared this season.
On Friday, Kasatkina lost to Belarusian Victoria Azarenka in the third round of the Wimbledon tournament. The match ended in two sets with the score 2:6, 4:6. The opponents spent 1h16 on the field.
– The fact that Kasatkina got fit on the grass, it only seemed. She reached the Eastbourne tournament final, which didn’t really matter. Most strong players have taken advantage of this to adapt to grass pitches. The first two rounds of Wimbledon for Dasha were on foot, as she was lucky with the lot. Everything seemed to be easy for her.
But Azarenka is not a player to fight without being complete. She’s a very strong-willed player, although she’s already past her prime. Nevertheless, she is still able to extract the maximum. And Dasha, unfortunately, this season is not very well prepared.
She changed coaches. She was very influenced by Carlos Martinez. He knew the Russian soul well, because he had already worked with Svetlana Kuznetsova. Martinez treated Dasha’s talent with care. She is, of course, a talented and original player – not a power player, but a combination player. But to play such tennis you need to be even better prepared than with power. Because the subtlety of possession of the ball in this case comes first. But here it lacks, just as it lacked power,” Dmitrieva told .
In the fourth round, the Belarusian will meet the winner of the pair Elina Svitolina (Ukraine) – Sofia Kenin (USA).
Source : MatchTV
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