\u2018Hate me or love me, you can\u2019t deny my progress\u2019<\/p>\n
Gauff was playing her first Wimbledon semi-final and is proud of her battling performances this fortnight, having played five consecutive three-setters between round two and the semi-finals.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s tough to digest, but I don’t know, I’m happy,\u201d said Gauff, who will move back into the world\u2019s top five on Monday.<\/p>\n
She doesn\u2019t regret going for the drop shot on match point, although she knows better decision-making would be one of the lessons learned from the match, overall.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere’s one thing to be, like, why play a drop shot? But then I think how many points I won off the drop shot,\u201d said Gauff.<\/p>\n
\u201cYes, people who don’t watch tennis are going to be like, \u2018Why did you do that?\u2019 At the end of the day, that’s the choice I made. Was it the right one in that moment? Maybe not. But then also, if I make it, everyone’s going to say how clutch of a shot that was.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think that’s just tennis. You lose some points off margins.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s not a painful story. I think thousands of people would love to lose the semi-finals at Wimbledon on match point. This is something I wouldn’t love to experience again, for sure no. I think it will make my next moment when I win a match like this even sweeter.\u201d<\/p>\n
Gauff is pleased with the progress she has made on the surface, as well as with her serve and attacking game.<\/p>\n
\u201cHate me or love me, you can’t deny the progress that’s been made this tournament. I don’t know, there’s a lot of positives. It gets me excited for the future, for sure,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2018Hate me or love me, you can\u2019t deny my progress\u2019 Gauff was playing her first Wimbledon semi-final and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":533648,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":["post-533647","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\/533647","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=533647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/533648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}