After the loss of her service in the ninth game of the first set, Gauff let her tears run free in the packed Arthur Ashe Stadium. “Some people ignore our human side,” Gauff said afterwards, while they also fought against the tears.
After victory, Iga Swiatek gets a question about beads, Reporter leaves the press room: “What happens?”
Experienced
“I feel that every professional athlete who has stood on the same pedestal as me, who has felt pressure at a certain moment. Both in public and private. I sometimes have bad days, but I think it is more about how you get up after those bad moments and then present it again,” said Gauff.
At the press conference she continued to cry on the track. “It feels human. People say things like” like number 3 in the world, you should be better “. But if I stopped playing tomorrow, I would have had a career that many would dream of.”
The third -placed Gauff affects the Polish Magdalena Frech in the third round.