The 23-year-old couldn\u2019t quite put a finger on when the adversity started to gain the better of him but defeats in three straight tournaments leading in played no small part. His 6-3, 6-4 victory over Ahmet Kaplan on Saturday could not have come at a better time.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere was a difficult time for me, because when I was on the plane from Barcelona to here, honestly I didn’t want to go, because I was not feeling good mentally,\u201d Vink said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don’t know why I’m struggling, but it’s already from the last few months that on the court I’m not feeling myself, and I enjoy more things outside of the court.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn Barcelona, it didn’t go well. In Munich, it didn’t go well. In Japan, I was becoming myself a little bit more. In Barcelona was terrible, because normally it’s one of my favourite tournaments, but I didn’t want to be there. So I thought, ‘oh, Roland-Garros, I want to go home,’ but luckily I could change my mind. Here I am with the title.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 23-year-old couldn\u2019t quite put a finger on when the adversity started to gain the better of him…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479483,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":["post-479482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}