Tennis
Alena OSTAPENKO: “I was sure that I would play in the evening session”
21st racket of the world Alena Ostapenko At the press conference he held after the 1/4 final game played with American Coco Goff from Latvia, he said that he did not expect to play a match in the first session of the day.
“When I asked the other day I was sure I would play in the evening session because that’s what I was told. I saw that I was playing the first run of the day when the program appeared. I thought, “Wow, what a weird show”. I was surprised. but it is not the right way.
I felt like I could never recover after the previous game. I returned to the hotel at around 02:00 at night. When you go to bed at 5-6 in the morning, you need a few days to recover. If I play a game late in the evening, I have to play at the same time or later the next day. Because you don’t have much time to heal. I think the program was better for him because he was playing much earlier the day I played in the evening session,” said Ostapenko.
Note that the Latvian tennis player only won two games in the match.
Source: Sport UA
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