{"id":713802,"date":"2026-06-04T04:55:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T04:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/713802\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T04:55:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T04:55:15","slug":"aryna-sabalenka-left-wanting-to-quit-tennis-after-shocking-french-open-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/713802\/","title":{"rendered":"Aryna Sabalenka left wanting to \u2019quit tennis\u2019 after shocking French Open collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paris \u2013 Aryna Sabalenka said she fell into a \u201cdeep, dark hole\u201d during her three-set\u00a0loss to Russian \u2060Diana Shnaider in the French Open quarterfinals on Wednesday, after the world No. 1 let her opportunities slip in the second set.<\/p>\n<p>The Belarusian handled the blustery conditions to win the opening set, forged a commanding lead in the second and was two points away from victory\u00a0when the contest began to turn, and \u200bShnaider won the last 10 games to prevail 3-6, 7-5, 6-0.<\/p>\n<p>Sabalenka said she had no thoughts, \u200cfelt \u200cno emotions and wanted to \u201cquit tennis right now\u201d in the aftermath of the \u200bdefeat, as the four-time\u00a0Grand Slam champion hoped to get back on track mentally in the next few weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paris \u2013 Aryna Sabalenka said she fell into a \u201cdeep, dark hole\u201d during her three-set\u00a0loss to Russian \u2060Diana&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":713803,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[6005,49,48,34517,5525,82,593],"class_list":["post-713802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-aryna-sabalenka","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-diana-shnaider","tag-french-open","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713802","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=713802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/713803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}