Venus Williams praised Leylah Fernandez’s mentality for wanting to win the first set of their women’s doubles match, despite being down 2-5.
💭 “I feel like we had the same approach in terms of how we looked at the match. When we got down 2-5, neither one of us were anywhere near giving up. We want to win that set.
“Our energy really matched each other in terms of determination, in terms of not giving up, in terms of really still just focus and dialed in on every single thing.
“That felt amazing, because I never really played with a partner, outside of Serena, obviously, who had that kind of mentality. So it was really fun, and I think we can just hopefully continue to get better.”