En quête de son premier Open d'Australie pour compléter son palmarès en Grand Chelem, Iga Swiatek a dû s’employer au premier tour ce lundi 19 janvier pour éviter le piège tendu par Yue Yuan, avant de faire parler son expérience pour s’en sortir en deux sets, 7-6(5), 6-3. Bousculée dans le premier set, Swiatek a dû batailler jusqu’au tie-break pour prendre l’avantage. Plus solide ensuite, la Polonaise a progressivement fait la différence dans l’échange et a fini par s’imposer en deux manches, sans avoir été totalement à l’abri mais en gardant la main dans les moments clés. Elle affrontera la dangereuse Marie Bouzkova au deuxième tour. En conférence de presse, la Polonaise, fan de Taylor Swift, a été interrogée les critiques sur à l'encontre de l'album de la star américaine, "The Tortured Poets Department".
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00:30I mean, it's kind of short, so it's not like you're going to find some, you know, surprising things on it after you listen to it a couple of times. The songs are catchy and that's what she wanted and that's what she said from the beginning. Like, she achieved the goal that she wanted. Every song is I hit, you know, on this album.
00:50But, yeah, I guess you can find different stuff in art and music and if you want to, if some people have different expectations and they look at an album like that, they will always find something to criticize for, you know, so it's kind of, yeah, I don't, I like it.
01:11Has your favorite song changed over the months?
01:17Honestly, it's hard to pick because she keeps the level high. The whole album is kind of consistent, so I'm not, like, I like Elizabeth Taylor, but I wouldn't say it's much higher in my rank than other in terms of the likability.
01:34Okay, a couple more in English. Simon.
01:38There you go. You've got a winning record against most players, but when a winning record starts to change, I mean, you've lost the last few to Coco, for example. How much does that play on your mind?
01:48Honestly, it doesn't. And also, when I was winning against her, it didn't. That's why I guess it was, you know, possible for me to continue because I wasn't, like, taking it for granted or, I don't know, coming to a match unfocused.
02:05I guess it kind of tells you something more about maybe the game or things you should work on or improve because, you know, also she improved, so, so, yeah.
02:22Yeah, but the head-to-head, I guess, doesn't really matter. Maybe for her, if you ask her the same question, it's different, but I guess I just really want to treat every match as a separate, you know, story.
02:37And every match also is in different conditions, so there's no point to, like, always come back and, you know, last time we played was Madrid, so also it was, like, over, you know, six months.
02:51It's kind of long in tennis life, so it's not, like, a whole story for me. It's more about how I feel, you know, that month or that week and how she feels and how we're going to play against each other.
03:03That's it.
03:05Okay, Mel.
03:07Yeah, you've had some very easy first-round matches, or at least you've made them look easy, and then you have, like, a tight one, like, tonight. Do you have a preference on starting off a tournament?
03:21Hard to say.
03:21Because some people would say, like, a tough test gets you sharp.
03:25Yeah, that's true. I mean, you never know because, like, if you play four, three-setters, your body is going to feel that, you know?
03:34You know, if you play easy matches and then suddenly you get a challenge, you might get, you know, rusty, like, in the middle of the tournament and feel the pressure, so I had both situations, you know?
03:48It was me winning, you know, quite comfortably the first round, but also I remember many tournaments where it was tough, you know, from the beginning, so it doesn't matter to overanalyze it, just, you know, you got to be ready for the next match and take lessons from, you know, why the match was kind of tighter and try to improve stuff for the next round.
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