Elina Svitolina est désormais la dernière représentante de la famille Monfils à l'US Open. Gaël a été dominé jeudi soir par Andrey Rublev. En revanche, l'Ukrainienne est elle toujours en course. Avant le match de son mari, elle a renversé la Russe Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, 5-7, 6-4, 6-4. Une belle victoire qui lui a permis de rejoindre Jessica Pegula au troisième tour. Le défi sera de taille samedi. Elle pourra compter sur le soutien de son époux, qui va rester à New-York pour l'accompagner.
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00:00 Yeah, definitely. It's really important to take time to practice.
00:05 I many times during my career before the pregnancy, I had no time to work on my game
00:13 because the season is very long. And then when there is no WTA tournaments,
00:18 you have exhibitions, you have different kinds of things happening. So you're not really
00:27 resting, you're not really working on your game, you're all the time traveling. So I would
00:32 definitely recommend juniors or players who are coming back after the injury to not rush so much,
00:43 because it really helped me. And I try to take time when I can. Right now,
00:53 I'm going to see what I'm going to do the rest of the season right now. But it's important to be
01:00 healthy, to work on the game and be fresh mentally, because there's so many tournaments right now
01:07 happening. You can play every single week, but sometimes you need to take a step back to
01:15 take time for yourself, to stay at home, to rest mentally, reset and work again and then go. So
01:24 this really, I think, is really important for a tennis player.
01:30 I think different things changed. I changed pretty much everything. I have this experience
01:41 from all the years that I played on tour, and I always was looking to improve my serve, to improve
01:48 the power on my shots and to strike the ball more cleaner, some technical things on my forehand.
01:57 So now I had time. I had three months, starting from January until my first match, where we were
02:06 just working on my game. And also, fresh opinion. Raymond is a great coach. He explains very
02:21 easy. It almost feels like he's not doing anything, but this is in a way really natural and
02:28 very good. I was just analysing, trying to think what he really brought into my game. This is really
02:37 natural, because we talk about the game, we try to analyse a few things here and there, and then
02:43 in the end it just really comes naturally. So I'm happy that there is improvement, but
02:49 I always have a really high standard of how I see my game, how I want to play. Sometimes
02:57 maybe it's not playing on my hand because I'm too hard on myself and getting down, but now I'm
03:04 happy with the balance that I have. These matches today didn't play well, but I fought and got the
03:11 win. For sure, there's thoughts coming in, but it's normal. We are humans. We are thinking about
03:20 the worst scenarios sometimes, and it happens, but you have to work with them. Not even try to
03:26 block them, but I try to really work with them. Somewhere they have a voice telling you, "Oh,
03:32 you're going to lose maybe." But then you have to convince yourself, you have to
03:37 speak to yourself. I speak to myself. I convince myself that I got this. I'm confident in my serve,
03:49 I'm confident in my return, my shots. This experience, this self-control is really important.
04:02 Some really top players, they know how to do it at the very important moments, when they are down,
04:10 or when they are up. At these important moments, they take this opportunity because they're very
04:17 focused, very strong, and I also try to aim for this.