And the Polish world No. 3 did not hold back in her assessment of her performance.<\/p>\n
“I lost control of the match and there was no way for me to come back because I felt worse and worse, you know,” Swiatek said in her press conference.<\/p>\n
“So this is not, like, positive, and this is different than losing to Elina [Svitolina] in Rome or to [Mirra] Andreeva, I guess, in Stuttgart. <\/p>\n
“So, yeah, it’s not great. I know that I lost because I was tense and my body couldn’t really do what my body… the proper things, you know, but it’s not the first time, as well. <\/p>\n
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Watch dramatic moment Kostyuk stuns Swiatek – ‘We knew an upset could be on the cards’<\/p>\n
Video credit: TNT Sports<\/p>\n
“I just need to work on it. Honestly, like, for me, maybe the toughest loss is when you had the match in your hands, but I don’t know, you made stupid decisions and you let it go and your opponent suddenly comes back. <\/p>\n
“It’s also bad when your tennis is just terrible and you know that you were worse than the players that you play with.”<\/p>\n
But Swiatek thought Kostyuk did well to capitalise on the chance she was presented with. <\/p>\n
“I lost today because Marta used the opportunity and I was super tense,” Swiatek said. “I feel like I can work on that, at least, and there is a reason and there is maybe a solution. Maybe it’s not going to take one week or one month. <\/p>\n
“Maybe it’s going to take even a season or something, but I need to believe that I can work through this and not be thrown off so quickly.”<\/p>\n
Swiatek has won a single major title since lifting the Suzanne-Lenglen cup in Paris two years ago – having claimed her maiden Wimbledon crown last year.<\/p>\n
She spoke about feelings of “stress” creeping back into her game on Sunday.<\/p>\n
“Well, I mean, we’re not on therapy session,” Swiatek smiled. “So I’m going to keep it simple, but obviously there could be many reasons. <\/p>\n
“I’d rather, like, work on it on my own. It is harder, a bit, to handle stress for me in the last year, especially [because] I feel like the peak was in US this year. <\/p>\n
“So I feel like today I felt off, you know, and I did mistakes that I didn’t want to do and I wanted to play safe, but the ball flew everywhere. <\/p>\n
“Suddenly, these feelings came back, and I tried to work on it with my dialogue inside, but it was tough today. Yeah, so it all kind of went drastically down and I played worse and worse.”<\/p>\n
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Highlights: Stunning upset as Kostyuk downs four-time champion Swiatek<\/p>\n
Video credit: TNT Sports<\/p>\n
Attentions for Swiatek will now turn to the grass season. Her Wimbledon title last year was a relative surprise given the surface was, historically, not her strongest.<\/p>\n
And the Pole conceded that it is “hard to say” how she will perform this year.<\/p>\n
“I don’t know,” she said. “I haven’t thought about grass at all. Hard to say. <\/p>\n
“Yeah, it was a great year last year but, also, my previous results were not good, you know. I mean, they were good but depending, you know, how you look at it. <\/p>\n
“So I’m going to probably take it easy and try to be patient and be humble. Like, I don’t know how it’s going to be. I’m not a wizard.”<\/p>\n
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