{"id":687334,"date":"2026-06-06T04:48:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T04:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/687334\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T04:48:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T04:48:17","slug":"after-stunning-upset-i-want-to-quit-tennis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/687334\/","title":{"rendered":"After Stunning Upset: &#8216;I Want to Quit Tennis&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"storyParagraph\">&#13;<br \/>\n                                        The world&#8217;s top-ranked women&#8217;s player sounds fed up with her sport after an upset loss to the No. 25 seed at the French Open. &#8220;No thoughts, no emotions. I want to quit tennis right now,&#8221; said 28-year-old Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus, reports <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/stunned-aryna-sabalenka-wants-to-quit-tennis-right-now-after-wild-french-open-collapse-11990092\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">People<\/a>. &#8220;We&#8217;ll see in a few days if I&#8217;m back on track mentally.&#8221; Sabalenka let a quarterfinal lead slip into a 3-6, 7-5, 6-0 loss to Diana Shnaider of Russia on Wednesday. She said she fell into &#8220;a very deep, deep dark hole&#8221; mentally during the match and &#8220;screwed up,&#8221; while crediting the 22-year-old Russian for raising her game.&#13;\n                                    <\/p>\n<p> &#8220;I think it&#8217;s a combination of everything,&#8221; she said. &#8220;You overthink, then you make easy mistakes, then you miss opportunities\u2014and on the other side she&#8217;s stepping in and starting to play more aggressively, more free, kind of fearless.&#8221; Sabalenka also noted it was &#8220;crazy windy,&#8221; and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7329851\/2026\/06\/03\/aryna-sabalenka-french-open-diana-shnaider-upset\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Athletic<\/a> points out that she lost last year in the French Open finals in similar conditions. &#8220;Wind is becoming as big an issue for Sabalenka as extreme heat is for the men&#8217;s world No. 1 Jannik Sinner,&#8221; writes Charlie Eccleshare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; The world&#8217;s top-ranked women&#8217;s player sounds fed up with her sport after an upset loss to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":687335,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[652,10200,4039,99,428],"class_list":["post-687334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-aryna-sabalenka","tag-collapse","tag-french-open","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=687334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/687335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}