Les demi-finales étaient au programme de ce jeudi à Roland-Garros. Dans la première affiche, la n°1 mondiale et double tenante du titre Iga Swiatek a été sans pitié pour la n°3 mondiale Coco Gauff. Tombeuse de l'Américaine en finale en 2022 et en quart en 2023, la Polonaise a encore dompté sa jeune rivale 6-2, 6-4. Dans la seconde rencontre, la tornade italienne Jasmine Paolini a emporté la jeune Mirra Andreeva, 6-3, 6-1. L'épatante transalpine se frottera donc à la reine Swiatek en finale samedi.
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00:00 Yes, I would say that it's a good result despite the loss.
00:08 I can take a lot of positive out of this tournament.
00:14 Of course, I'm a bit disappointed from today's match outcome,
00:21 but it is what it is, so we have to move on.
00:25 We'll do English questions first, then we'll switch to Russian.
00:28 Yeah, go on.
00:29 Well, Silvio, you made a great tournament, I think.
00:35 I mean, to beat Sabalenka doesn't happen every day,
00:39 so you should be satisfied about that.
00:41 What did surprise you the most of what happened today?
00:45 I mean, your performance, that you were hoping to play better,
00:49 or that she did something that you didn't expect in a way?
00:54 She was playing a lot in front, not looking too much for the angles,
01:01 just to not give you the chance probably to play your best shots.
01:05 I don't know if that is right, what I'm saying,
01:09 or if you think something different.
01:12 Well, honestly, I could have played better, of course.
01:18 I had a lot of mistakes, the ones that I usually not do,
01:23 so that was a bit tough to accept,
01:26 and I tried to manage and to fight through it,
01:31 but I guess today was not the day.
01:33 And of course, she played good, she played some good tennis,
01:37 and she was playing semis for a reason,
01:42 so she showed some great level of tennis today.
01:46 I was struggling throughout the whole match,
01:50 but it is what it is, it's just what happened today.
01:56 I can take a lot of positive from these two weeks,
01:59 but still I think for the next few days I will be a little bit disappointed,
02:06 but I will still be watching the finals.
02:09 So, yeah.
02:11 Hi, Mira. Good tournament.
02:15 I know you're still pretty early on in this career.
02:20 What are some of the things you find have helped you so far
02:25 to get over disappointments like this
02:28 and to move on from other things that you do that make you happy,
02:33 make you feel good and just make you feel like going back out and getting at it again?
02:38 Honestly, I haven't found this thing yet.
02:42 After the losses, it's always tough to start to think positive again.
02:49 Maybe not for everyone, but for me I only have negative thoughts coming first,
02:56 and then if I talk to my team, maybe a few days will go on,
03:02 then maybe after I will have some thoughts that maybe I played good here,
03:09 maybe I could have done better here, but overall it was a good tournament.
03:14 So I think for now we'll just need a couple of days
03:18 to just wait until the negative thoughts will go away
03:24 and I can just clearly see the situation
03:30 and then to make some conclusions out of this trip and that's it.
03:37 I just wondered how you found the experience of playing in a Grand Slam semi-final.
03:41 Was it as you expected and has it given you the taste for a lot more now?
03:46 If you would ask me in the beginning of the tournament
03:50 that do I expect to be in the semi-finals, I would say no.
03:55 And if somebody would tell me in the beginning of the week,
03:58 "Well, you will be playing semi-finals here."
04:01 I was like, "What? Stop joking."
04:04 So that was something I didn't really expect,
04:08 but I was just playing out there, trying my best.
04:13 I think when you just play...
04:18 Well, for me it works like when I play with no thoughts
04:21 and I just try to enjoy the moment, I play the best.
04:25 So that's what I did in these few matches before.
04:32 So I didn't really expect myself in the semis,
04:36 but I was playing there in the end.
04:39 Hi, Mira. You said you'd be disappointed for a few days.
04:44 What does disappointed Mira Andreeva look like?
04:48 Do you get grumpy? Do you like to be on your own?
04:51 Do you need someone to take it out on? What does that look like?
04:58 I would say that I stay in my bed.
05:02 I sleep for 12 hours.
05:06 I do nothing.
05:09 But we will have to travel to go back home,
05:13 so I will not talk a lot.
05:15 I will be too down in myself.
05:19 I will never ask some questions.
05:23 If somebody asks me, I will answer with a few words,
05:27 and then I would rather have somebody not talk to me at all.
05:31 But it's always easier with your team around and with your family,
05:37 because they make you feel better.
05:41 Today I was actually talking OK, not just a few words.
05:48 I think maybe I'm improving a little bit in this stuff.
05:57 But I think for the next few days I will not be talking a lot.
06:03 Is it better to have reached a semi-final in the Grand Slam
06:15 or to have finally gotten a picture with Andy Murray?
06:18 Both are good.
06:22 It was a nice moment in the beginning of the tournament,
06:26 because I had a gift. I had a retro camera.
06:30 I was like, "Well, I have to do a lot of photos."
06:34 I had 25 or 30 pictures that I can do.
06:38 I made a list of who I wanted to take a picture with.
06:42 Of course, Andy was first on the list.
06:46 We had a few interactions, but I didn't even have a photo with him.
06:50 I was like, "We need to fix that."
06:53 I saw him a few times before, but he was warming up, he was eating.
06:57 So I was like, "Next time, next time."
07:00 Then on that day I saw him just talking to his team,
07:03 and I was like, "Well, he's busy. No, no, no."
07:06 And then my coach was like, "No, you go, you do it,
07:09 and after we forget about it."
07:12 So she kind of pushed me to him,
07:15 and finally I had a picture with him.
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