“I feel like I wasn’t even in the right place with my feet, you know, before the shots,” she said. “Yeah, I wish I would have moved better, because I think that would get me an opportunity to bounce back, because this is usually what happens. But today for sure I didn’t move well.”
Swiatek lost six games in a row for the second straight day. She had recovered from losing the first set 0-6 to Madison Keys on Wednesday’s quarterfinals. In her opening match in Madrid, Swiatek trailed teenager Alexandra Eala a set and a break before bouncing back.
“I didn’t play well even on these matches that I won,” Swiatek said. “I think I pushed kind of with my head, you know, for more than I even should, tennis-wise.”
The last time Swiatek won only two or fewer games on any surface was a 6-0, 6-2 loss to Jelena Ostapenko in Birmingham in 2019.
The 23-year-old Pole said “hopefully one day it’s going to click, but I’m not expecting anything, I’m just going to try to work” on trying to move better and give herself greater chances.
