Madison Keys s'est qualifiée pour le troisième tour de Roland-Garros en dominant, une nouvelle fois en deux sets, l'Egyptienne Mayar Sherif (6-0, 7-6).
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00:03 - Maddie, a very solid performance today,
00:05 a quick first set and then a bit of a tight second set.
00:08 Just talk us through your thoughts on the match, please.
00:11 - I think I obviously started very, very well
00:14 and I think she came out a little bit nervous
00:16 and not playing her best.
00:17 And then I think she really raised her level
00:20 in the second set and I had to kind of take a step back
00:23 and refocus and try to regroup a little bit
00:27 and just overall super proud of myself
00:30 for being able to kind of fight off some of those set points
00:33 and get it done in two.
00:35 - Okay, if you'd like to ask a question.
00:37 - You played a very fast pace, meaning from point to point.
00:46 You barely ever used the 25 seconds.
00:49 Has it ever occurred that you got a warning
00:52 for a time violation or would that be a first for you?
00:55 Or is that by design to not give your opponent
00:58 enough time to prepare?
00:59 - I've just always played really fast
01:03 and that's just kind of how I go
01:09 and I just kind of move at my own pace
01:11 and I don't think I've ever gotten a warning.
01:15 I would probably melt if I did
01:17 because it would be very strange.
01:20 But it's just my natural pace of playing
01:23 and I've always been fast in between points.
01:27 - Next question.
01:27 Just right there behind you, yeah.
01:30 - Thank you.
01:31 - Hi Madison, looking at your results in recent weeks,
01:34 I mean, they've been really impressive.
01:36 I just wondered, can you feel when good results
01:41 like this are coming, when you've come into this season?
01:44 I know clay hasn't necessarily always been
01:46 your favorite surface, but could you feel
01:48 that something good was gonna happen this year?
01:51 - No.
01:53 Kind of took me by surprise.
01:55 Going into Madrid, I think I'd lost
01:59 like first round the five years in a row.
02:01 So getting that first win was kind of,
02:05 it felt really big for me.
02:07 And then from then I just kind of have tried
02:09 to carry over all that momentum,
02:11 but it was definitely not, I was not expecting it.
02:16 - And based on how it has gone,
02:18 how do you feel now with this tournament?
02:21 I mean, do your goals increase in some way?
02:26 - I think, I mean, I think I'd be lying
02:31 if I said that the goal, every single slam,
02:35 isn't to come in and try to win it.
02:37 I've obviously been competitive in slams before
02:40 and I've gotten to that, you know, that final,
02:43 those final rounds and that's always the goal.
02:47 And I think the years that I've been able
02:51 to go really far and do well in slams,
02:53 I'm really not focusing on that.
02:55 I'm trying to just really focus on the match ahead of me
02:58 and continue to just focus on what's gotten me
03:01 into that position so far.
03:03 So in some ways, yes, that's kind of always the goal,
03:07 but in a lot of ways, I think the bigger goal
03:08 is to continue to do all of the really great work
03:11 round by round.
03:12 - Okay, Charlie.
03:13 - Hi Madison, can I ask,
03:15 Badossa and Sabalenka are playing each other
03:17 on the weekend and they're like super close.
03:19 Just wonder, what's that like playing a really close friend?
03:22 Obviously it's something you've done a few times.
03:24 Is it awkward?
03:25 Is it uncomfortable?
03:27 How does that dynamic kind of play out?
03:29 - I think it just, I think it depends a little bit
03:32 on just who the people are.
03:34 I feel like for myself, I typically,
03:37 it's always a little bit awkward
03:40 and you never really want to play your friend,
03:42 but at the end of the day,
03:44 we've been doing it for so long
03:46 that when you walk on the court,
03:48 you want to win the match.
03:49 And you know, when you walk off of the court
03:51 and you're back in the locker room,
03:52 that you'll be friends still and go back to normal.
03:55 So I think for me, it's just maybe the come ons
03:59 aren't as loud or as many, but at the end of the day,
04:02 I think it's another tennis match.
04:04 - How quickly does that kind of snap back to just,
04:07 okay, we're off, we're friends again, not competitors?
04:11 - I think it's, it depends probably,
04:14 but I think for the most part, it's pretty quick.
04:16 It's, like I said, we've been doing it for so long.
04:20 And when you're on the court,
04:22 you're obviously incredibly competitive
04:24 and whether you come off the court winning or losing,
04:26 I think you can obviously be disappointed
04:29 or happy and all of that.
04:30 But at the end of the day, a friendship is a friendship.
04:33 - Hi Madison, I wanted to ask about
04:37 two completely unrelated things.
04:39 But the first is just with this weather
04:41 and what it's been like the past few days.
04:43 Is there, obviously, you're happy to win anytime you win,
04:47 but is there also an additional sort of sense of relief
04:50 of like, okay, that's behind me, no more waiting around,
04:53 no more wondering when I'm gonna play and all of that.
04:55 And what is maybe the toughest part of the waiting around
05:00 and not knowing when you'll play and all of that
05:04 when there is this weather?
05:06 - I think for me, like the first round,
05:09 the schedule changed and the practice courts
05:12 weren't ready yet, so we only got to warm up for 15 minutes.
05:15 And then I basically ran from the practice court
05:17 to get ready.
05:18 So it just added an extra layer of stress
05:21 and chaos a little bit.
05:22 And then being able to get out there and finish a match,
05:27 you kind of take a, it's like,
05:29 I'm glad that we actually got to finish.
05:31 And then today, I mean, I think I really lucked out
05:34 and was able to have the roof.
05:35 So as soon as I saw the schedule,
05:38 I knew right away that it wasn't gonna be anything
05:43 that I was gonna have to worry about today.
05:44 I knew I was gonna get on when I was going to get on
05:47 and wasn't gonna have to deal with any delays.
05:49 - Just wondering, as someone who's partner in life
05:57 knows about tennis, played, competed himself,
06:02 are there advantages to that?
06:05 Maybe disadvantages, I don't know,
06:07 to being with somebody who's been in this world?
06:10 And how much, if at all, do you talk about tennis?
06:15 That you'll ask him for advice or he'll say,
06:18 "Hey, did you ever think about trying this?"
06:20 Or any of that conversation happen?
06:23 - I think it's been only advantages.
06:28 I think him having been, obviously,
06:33 in the same competitive world at the same time,
06:36 he really gets it and understands every aspect of it.
06:39 And I think one of the biggest things is,
06:41 especially with coaching now,
06:44 he knows kind of what you're looking for as a player
06:48 when you look up at your coach, which is always great.
06:51 And I think he kind of knows how to communicate to me.
06:55 So he knows how to say things and how to word them
06:59 so that they really land and they make sense.
07:00 So it's been only an advantage.
07:04 - Congrats.
07:08 I wanted to ask a very general question.
07:14 You've been in the game so long since you were a young girl
07:17 and we all know that tennis is so demanding
07:20 and it's said it teaches so many lessons on so many fronts.
07:25 If you had to step back and say
07:28 what this sport has really taught you,
07:30 I don't know, the one or two things
07:33 that the sport has taught you as a person,
07:35 what would that be?
07:36 - I think that when you start playing at such a young age,
07:43 you get so, it's hard not to get wrapped up
07:46 into the number next to your name
07:50 meaning everything about you.
07:53 And I think as I've gotten older
07:56 and as I've gone to therapy,
07:59 it's been a really learning experience for me
08:04 that tennis is an amazing part of who I am,
08:08 but it's not who I am.
08:10 And I think when you figure that out
08:15 and you're able to continue to play
08:18 and just enjoy yourself and not get too wrapped up
08:21 in tennis being your one and only identity,
08:24 it makes everything so much better
08:27 and the wins are better, the losses are easier.
08:30 You just figure out that tennis is amazing
08:35 and it's brought so much into your life,
08:37 but you are allowed to have other things
08:40 and be different versions of yourself.
08:43 And I think it just, it makes you really kind of step back
08:47 and appreciate the moments that you have
08:49 on the tennis courts.
08:50 And especially when we get to play
08:52 in these amazing stadiums in front of crowds,
08:55 you just really get to kind of fully appreciate it.
08:58 - One more and then we'll go to that, yeah.
09:00 - Having said that, and on a different topic,
09:03 what, you said you were surprised in Madrid,
09:06 but what do you think has been behind your successes?
09:10 Such a good season.
09:12 - I have an amazing support group with Bjorn
09:17 and my PT Kayla and my fitness trainer Lang,
09:22 and they've been just amazing.
09:25 And it was obviously really tough
09:28 to miss the beginning of the year.
09:29 And I kind of felt like I was trying to catch up
09:31 with everyone and putting a little bit more stress on myself
09:34 but being able to just be really vulnerable and open
09:39 with my support team and being able to just kind of
09:43 lay it all out there and how I was feeling.
09:45 They've been able to really help me
09:47 through some tough times and really just help
09:50 get my mind right and be the support that I need them to be.
09:54 And it's amazing where there's been some really tough matches
09:58 and being able to look over every point
10:00 and they're absolutely backing you.
10:02 It just gives you that extra push
10:05 and just like kind of sense of relief.
10:07 - Okay, last one here.
10:09 - Taylor said yesterday, I think he played on court nine,
10:12 that the balls outside wouldn't bounce at all
10:15 because it was so wet.
10:16 Now you have played outside, you have played inside.
10:19 I suppose you like it more to play inside
10:22 but what is the main difference?
10:23 Do the balls really bounce that much higher inside?
10:27 - I think it's probably more to do
10:30 when the courts are getting wet.
10:32 So I've been, the last two matches,
10:34 I haven't played in the rain or anything.
10:37 Obviously when it's raining,
10:39 the balls are getting wet from the rain
10:42 but also every time they hit the ground,
10:43 they're kind of soaking up some of the moisture.
10:45 So it's definitely, balls are getting heavier and heavier.
10:49 So they're not going to bounce as much
10:52 but I think you kind of know that's happening
10:56 and you expect it.
10:57 So I think you kind of just take the moment
10:59 to make the adjustments that you need to.
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