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Yesterday was one of the toughest losses I remember in my career,
The tension and stress that accompanied me throughout the week make this bronze even more special,
Maybe because I have been world No.1 for such a long time and have won so many tournaments, I felt like I could handle everything,
After the match, I was pretty confused, because I still feel like I lost yesterday, and that was kind of a huge loss,
I’ve never felt something like it, even (at) Grand Slams,
It was like, ... somebody really broke my heart.”
I’m going to just remember winning the bronze medal,
I actually realised yesterday that I wasn't really playing for myself, I was more playing for everybody else, for the country, for my team, for everybody that hoped that I'm going to win a medal and probably win a gold medal,
the four-time French Open champion told reporters I think if I hadn't played today I would cry for a week, so I needed to get it together,
I was maybe a little bit too arrogant with myself because I thought that I handled so much pressure before that I think I'm going to handle this one as well,
I actually am watching Carlos Alcaraz and I can see he’s enjoying every minute of it and he’s a great example actually of how to handle all of that well,
Honestly, during the competition, I wasn’t really aware that it was so much because I understood that I was stressed and I accepted that it was going to be that way. I was in Tokyo and I saw how hard it is and how different this tournament is than what I had on tour. I think [the issue was] playing these few matches in a row without having a little bit of time to not really think about tennis, which I’m more used to now when we have longer 1000 tournaments and Grand Slams,
You don’t wanna know,
Swiatek laughed when asked how she spent the last 24 hours It's the result of the match. So I just messed up."
Asked about the dip from 4-0 up, Swiatek said ... She then I was not technically well positioned because of the stress and the fact that I played my games day by day,