Chris Evert admits she was surprised by Aryna Sabalenka\u2019s post-match comments following her French Open final defeat to Coco Gauff.<\/p>\n
Sabalenka<\/a> was quick out of the blocks in the women\u2019s showpiece match at Roland Garros as she went a double break up in the first set, but her American opponent pulled it back and took it to a tie-breaker before the world No 1 eventually claimed the set.<\/p>\n The conditions started playing havoc with the wind having a big impact and Gauff <\/a>upped her game even further as she started to dominate.<\/p>\n The world No 2 eventually claimed a 6-7 (5-7), 6-2, 6-4 victory to secure her second Grand Slam title following her success at the 2023 US Open where she also beat the Belarusian.<\/p>\n Sabalenka was very emotional during the post-match presentation interview as she described it as her \u201cworst final\u201d.<\/p>\n Later in the press conference, she again lamented her performance, saying: \u201cIt was really honestly the worst tennis I\u2019ve played in the last, I don\u2019t know, in the last I don\u2019t know how many months.<\/p>\n \u201cConditions were terrible, and she simply was better in these conditions than me. I think it was the worst final I ever played.\u201d<\/p>\n Sabalenka ended Iga Swiatek\u2019s title defence in the semi-final with a three-set win and she also stated that the Pole \u201cwould have won the final\u201d.<\/p>\n Aryna Sabalenka under-fire after contentious comments \u2018belittling\u2019 Coco Gauff\u2019s French Open win<\/a><\/p>\n Carlos Alcaraz, Coco Gauff and the greatest French Open was given the perfect TV platform<\/a><\/p>\n She added: \u201cI don\u2019t know, I think Iga \u2013 if Iga would win me another day, I think she would go out today and she would get the win.<\/p>\n \u201cYeah, it just hurts. Honestly hurts. I\u2019ve been playing really well, and then in the last match, go out there and perform like I did, that\u2019s hurt.\u201d<\/p>\n Former world No 1 Evert was unimpressed by the three-time Grand Slam winner\u2019s comments as she felt Sabalenka should have come up with a gameplan to counter the conditions.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen you heard Aryna say it was the worst [final], I was like wow! You have to adjust,\u201d the 18-time Grand Slam winner is quoted as saying by The Tennis Gazette.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s the same on both sides. You have to make that adjustment. If you are number one in the world or number two in the world, you should know how to play on windy days by now.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was swirling. Well, you know what, then you really have to get ready and prepared for the shot quicker and you have to be aware of that and make the court smaller and not go for the lines all the time if it\u2019s that windy.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was the same for both of them and I think Coco really adapted to it much better.\u201d<\/p>\n The post Chris Evert \u2018was like wow\u2019 after hearing Aryna Sabalenka\u2019s controversial comments<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Chris Evert admits she was surprised by Aryna Sabalenka\u2019s post-match comments following her French Open final defeat to Coco Gauff. Sabalenka was quick out of the blocks in the women\u2019s showpiece match at Roland Garros as she went a double break up in the first set, but her American opponent pulled it back and took […]<\/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-581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581","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=581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}French Open News<\/h3>\n