Aryna Sabalenka cut a dejected figure following her shock French Open quarter-final loss to Diana Shnaider on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
In a tournament where the top seeds continue to tumble, Sabalenka was the latest big-name scalp to be dumped out of this year\u2019s Roland Garros.<\/p>\n
The world No 1 was 6-3 and 4-1 up on Court Philippe Chatrier<\/span>, as she looked on course to reach another French Open semi-final.<\/p>\n But her Russian opponent raised her game and pounced as Sabalenka flailed in the windy conditions. The 28-year-old ended up making 57 unforced errors as she fell to a 3-6 7-5 6-0 loss.<\/p>\n After the contest, 25th seed Shnaider, who will face qualifier Maja Chwalinksa in a semi-final very few would have predicted, could not hold back her stunned amazement.<\/p>\n Chris Evert offers theory behind Aryna Sabalenka\u2019s French Open \u2018meltdown\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Roland Garros: Maja Chwalinska\u2019s first comments as \u2018crazy\u2019 run and WTA Rankings surge continue<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Want more from Tennis365? Add us as\u00a0<\/span>a preferred source on Google to your favourites list<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>for tennis coverage you can trust.<\/strong><\/p>\n She said, \u201cHonestly, I am speechless. She is the world number one, so I was just trying to do my best. I had to fight for every point.\u201d<\/p>\n An understandably disconsolate\u00a0Sabalenka<\/a> stunned reporters with her candid opening at her press conference.<\/p>\n She said, \u201cNo thoughts, no emotions. I want to quit tennis right now. We\u2019ll see in a few days if I\u2019m back on track.\u201d<\/p>\n Sabalenka \u2013 who lost in similar circumstances to Coco Gauff<\/a> in last year\u2019s French Open final \u2013 conceded 10 games in a row as Schnaider sped away to victory.<\/p>\n The four-time Grand Slam winner is yet to win a major outside hard courts, with the Minsk-born player chalking up two Australian Open<\/a> and US Open<\/a> victories.<\/p>\n The\u00a0French Open<\/a> and Wimbledon<\/a> still evade her clutches, something she admits may be playing on her mind.<\/p>\n Sabalenka added, \u201cI don\u2019t know. I really feel great on clay, I feel great on grass. Maybe I\u2019m focusing too much on the fact that I\u2019ve never won a Slam on them, and maybe that makes me overthink things, makes me over-emotional at some moments.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is something I actually have to step back from and try to find a solution, because I\u2019m so tired of losing like this \u2013 not in the best way, just because I was over-emotional.\u201d<\/p>\n However, she struck a defiant figure and vowed to bounce back from this big setback.<\/p>\n She finished her press conference by saying, \u201cWell, what doesn\u2019t kill us makes us stronger, I guess. At some point I\u2019ll figure out the situation and we\u2019ll get back tougher.<\/p>\n \u201cBy the way, I just figured out how I can overcome it \u2013 one of those rooms where you go in and smash everything. Probably I\u2019ll spend a whole day tomorrow over there destroying stuff. Maybe it\u2019ll help, maybe not. Thank you very much.\u201d<\/p>\n READ MORE: Venus Williams makes shock admission about Serena Williams\u2019 return<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n The post Aryna Sabalenka threatens to \u2018quit tennis\u2019 after remarkable French Open loss<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Aryna Sabalenka cut a dejected figure following her shock French Open quarter-final loss to Diana Shnaider on Wednesday. In a tournament where the top seeds continue to tumble, Sabalenka was the latest big-name scalp to be dumped out of this year\u2019s Roland Garros. The world No 1 was 6-3 and 4-1 up on Court Philippe […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}More French Open News<\/h2>\n