Disappointment for Caroline Garcia, eliminated from the Australian Open overnight from Sunday to Monday by the Polish Magda Linette (7-6/6-4).
The seeded number 4, defeated in the round of 16, admitted having struggled to manage his new status as favorite.
“It's one of the parameters with which I am less comfortable.
I have to manage to work on it to manage it better.
My own expectations are quite high and maybe I'm shooting myself in the foot, ”she said at a press conference.
"I can't break free"
The Lyonnaise said she was "very disappointed" at not having managed to "keep [her] emotions under control and to put [her] game in place and [to] free herself forward", while confiding that this inability was not "a real surprise", compared to the difficulties encountered in previous matches.
“What's annoying is that I can't manage to free myself, to put my game in place, to move forward.
I didn't get to the net much… And that's what saddens me the most, ”concluded Caroline Garcia, who places this elimination at the same level as that in the semi-finals at the US Open.
She will soon have the opportunity to return to the court, next week, at home in Lyon, even if "a defeat in a grand slam, whatever the following tournament, is difficult to digest".
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