Swiatek and Sabalenka feeding off growing rivalry

The top two players express their mutual respect before Roland Garros

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00:00 She can play great tennis so for sure when we play against each other I feel

00:04 like it's a challenge and it's also you know pushing me to become better and

00:08 better player so I think we both kind of need each other to to grow. She achieves

00:15 incredible results here at Roland Garros and it's just I take it as a challenge

00:21 and I like to accept tough challenges and that's what actually motivates me

00:27 and brings me more energy and more I guess more energy to keep going to to

00:36 keep fighting for for what I think I can I can achieve.