“I’m sorry. I promised myself I’m not gonna cry. I’m sorry,” she said, overcome with tears. After placing her runner-up plate in her line of sight between her and her support team in the stands “because it’s easier like this,” she added, “I know it’s sometimes maybe not easy to work with me. But I really appreciate all your support and everything you do for me.”
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Meeting reporters later, Andreeva confessed that “every time I lose, every time it’s like the end of the world to me.”
“I don’t know, sometimes I see other players, like, smile right after the defeat, right after the matches they lost,” she said. “To me, I don’t understand how people do it. I wish I could do it.
“Every match that I lose is obviously very disappointing and very painful to me. I hope that maybe in the future this can improve and I can maybe, after the match that I lose, I can talk about it right away and not take some time before starting to talk about it.”
