Petra Kvitova‘s response to her gripping third-round triumph on the US Open — one among aid and never ecstasy — has left Australian tennis icon Wally Masur pondering a “disgrace”.
The previous top-level coach took a second to mirror on Kvitova’s press convention after she outlasted Spaniard Garbiñe Muguruza in a three-set epic, ultimately profitable a match-deciding tiebreak 12-10.
“I am glad that someway it labored out and I am glad it was a giant aid on the match level,” a smiling Kvitova mentioned together with her head in her arms.
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“So, yeah, aid.”
“Is not it humorous? Reduction — that is (generally) the gamers’ emotion,” Masur mentioned on Stan Sport’s Grand Slam Each day.
“I interviewed Marat Safin after he received the Australian Open (in 2005). He checked out me, he seemed exhausted, he mentioned, ‘No arduous questions, I am exhausted, I am so relieved’.
“So, good gamers anticipate a lot of themselves that generally they do not take pleasure in a win. It is like a way of aid. It appears a disgrace, is not it?”
Grand Slam Each day host Chris Stubbs likened the mindset to Cathy Freeman’s when she clinched gold within the 400m on the 2000 Sydney Olympics.
With out a trace of a smile, Freeman unzipped her iconic bodysuit, put a hand over her eyes and dropped to the observe.
“Reduction was an amazing emotion, as a result of it was one thing I would dreamt of ever since I used to be 10 years outdated,” the Australian operating legend mentioned within the Sydney Olympics documentary.
“Virtually a bit Cathy Freeman-esque, is not it?” Stubbs mentioned of Kvitova’s response on Grand Slam Each day.
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The Czech Republic’s Kvitova hasn’t superior past the semi-finals of a grand slam for the reason that Roland-Garros match of 2020, and is simply the twenty first seed at this 12 months’s US Open.
However Masur considers the 32-year-old, who conquered Wimbledon in 2011 and 2014, a real title probability.
“Kvitova’s one among my favourites for the match,” Masur mentioned.
“I’ve kind of bought teams of gamers; I’ve bought the tennis gamers and I’ve bought the first-strike gamers, with all the ability.
“For me, Kvitova may be a type of first-strike gamers that may get the job performed.”
Kvitova will meet American Jessica Pegula, the match’s eighth seed, within the fourth spherical.
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