Expecting the unexpected, like a Sabalenka drop shot, has been a theme of this Roland-Garros so far. Top names in both draws have tumbled out in the first four rounds at a rate not seen in the tournament in many years, and Sabalenka is the only player left in the women’s draw who’s played in a major final. <\/p>\n
But she says that she’s only focused on what she needs to do to lift the Coupe Suzanne-Lenglen for the first time.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“I’m not really overthinking, I was able to separate myself from what’s going on this year at Roland Garros,” she said. “I have been around. Anything can happen. That’s tennis. That’s sport, you know?\u00a0<\/p>\n
“I’m just trying once again to be focused on myself and make sure that when I’m there competing I’m bringing my best level that I have, and I’m there, I’m fighting, and I’m doing everything I can to get this trophy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Expecting the unexpected, like a Sabalenka drop shot, has been a theme of this Roland-Garros so far. Top…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":709483,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-709482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=709482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/709483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}