Elle est la seule en lice à pouvoir faire le Grand Chelem calendaire. Une information que Madison Keys n'avait pas en tête mais qui l'a bien fait sourire en conférence de presse, ce vendredi, à l'occasion du Media Day. La gagnante du dernier Open d'Australie espère tenir son rang et aller le plus loin à Paris. La tête de série n°7 débutera son parcours contre une joueuse issue des qualifications, avant de potentiellement croiser la route de Katie Boulter. Son meilleur parcours remonte déjà à 2018, et une demi-finale Porte d'Auteuil.
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00:00really looking forward to playing here in Paris again I had obviously a decent
00:24amount of success in Madrid and less less success in Rome but still think there's still a lot of
00:32positives and looking forward to playing here in Paris in French is possible the translation
00:41just in English yeah okay sorry hi I wanted to talk with you about the American women the success
00:49of women tennis in America what are the main reason to explain that you are four in the top
00:5510 I think what are the main reason please I think that the the American women we've had
01:02I think many years of long success with a lot of us being in the top 10 in the top 20 and we've had
01:11a large group kind of always and I think that's really helped kind of push all of us to continue
01:17to do better I grew up playing with a lot of these girls and then now there's even the younger
01:21generation so I think it's just all we have a lot of really good competition and we have been able to
01:31kind of keep pushing each other throughout our entire careers and I think it's just kind of shown
01:38that not only have we all made it to the pros but we all continue to push each other
01:44even later in our careers and continuing to do well so I really think it's just been the sheer
01:51amount of players that we have in juniors and from there there's been a lot of us that have just had
01:58success hi how would you say if at all things have changed for you now that you are a Grand Slam
02:08champion on the court off the court how you see yourself how maybe others see you
02:15um I keep getting this question and I don't really think much has changed um in my life
02:25other than um there's more interview requests and people want to talk to me um but I think I had
02:34a pretty successful career already so it was just kind of the one thing that kind of felt like
02:41everyone was just kind of like waiting to happen um so I don't think it's changed that dramatically for
02:48me I think the biggest thing is just the I think just kind of the perspective shift that I've had
02:56um and it's it's a little bit funny having had the same goal for the entirety of your career and then
03:05finally achieving that and then having to kind of sit down and shift the mindset a little bit because
03:11you actually did it and now for the first time you get to kind of realign those goals
03:15well if I could just follow up on that um could you describe a little more what you mean by
03:26uh shift in mindset I think that it's just you know from the time that I was 14 I just always
03:34wanted to win a Grand Slam and what would that feel like and it was just kind of always an unknown
03:39and for 16 years it was just always kind of still the elusive question and then to finally achieve it
03:48and feel that success and you know have that achievement and then kind of go home and then
03:56think okay wait this is the first time that I I don't not know anymore it's I did it um so I think
04:04that's just the biggest thing and just kind of shifting shifting past goals that you've now achieved
04:12and setting new ones okay we'll do Matt the cat and then that's a little bit uh how's it going um
04:23now when you won in Australia and I think none of us will forget the night when you talked about sort
04:29of the experience of being in therapy and learning to be happy regardless of be happy with who you are
04:37in your life regardless of your chance results and then the thing happens that makes you really happy
04:43um which I imagine it did was there any concern or discussion or thought processes with you of
04:53I got to be careful and make sure this doesn't make me too happy or I mean imagine when you experience
05:00this at some at this point in your life after knowing yourself in a different way that
05:05it might color um or recalibrate how you would think about this achievement
05:12I think that's that's kind of the almost the double-edged sword of success um especially as a tennis
05:22player and I think you I mean I did all of this work to get to the point where I didn't need
05:30the success on the tennis court anymore um and then it kind of happens and then you really enjoy
05:37it and you like it and I think it's taken it's taken a lot of conscious effort to not get sucked back
05:45into bad habits uh and I think that's just kind of the reality of life I think you spend all this time
05:53kind of recognizing the habits that you kind of shift into and then big things happen and I think
06:00you kind of are kind of searching for a little bit of comfort and sliding back into bad habits I think
06:06is uh inevitable so it's just been a lot of conscious effort and work to make sure that
06:13all of the progress that I made and all of the um just kind of self work that I did doesn't get
06:22lost in the shuffle of winning a slam
06:26hi um I just wonder you talked a lot about finding new goals having to find and set new goals after
06:35having this one singular goal for so long can you share what the new goals are and like was it was it
06:41obvious what they should be or did you really have to kind of was that quite a process to decide on
06:47new goals I think the big thing for me personally is I don't really like to have
06:55singular results based goals only because I think you're I mean they're really hard to actually achieve
07:05and you also have someone else who is trying to stop you from getting there and I like to
07:13obviously have those goals of winning another grand slam but I've really tried to focus on
07:20things that I have full control over so I think one of them that I've really been working on has just
07:27been to really just enjoy playing tennis and enjoy being out there and enjoy the uncomfortable
07:35moments of very nervous tight moments and just kind of embracing that and just taking that all in
07:43and I think a big reason why that is is because I'm obviously at the tail end of my career and I'm not
07:50sure how much longer I'm going to be playing out here and be on the big stages and have those
07:55opportunities so really just kind of soaking those in while I can
07:58hey medicine as a hard-working player I want to know your thoughts on infusions
08:09Max Purcell was banned for undergoing two intravenous infusions a forbidden method under the VADA code
08:16the ITIA case documents say he feigned injury to justify the infusion and googled everything
08:23also the VADA limit of 100 milliliters in the 90s and back in the days when allowed infusions
08:28were common in tennis they help with recovery and performance and are not detectable in normal
08:34doping tests so I want to know do you think they are still a problem today because it's so easy to do it
08:40um I have no idea honestly I know I don't do them so that's really all I can comment on
08:51yeah I just wondered um some people talk you kind of touched on this but some people talk about a
09:04kind of flatness they feel when you know you you finally achieve this thing and you think it's going
09:08to make you happy and solve everything and it doesn't and I just wondered a if there was an element
09:13of flatness kind of in the aftermath and also whether you think kind of having that in your
09:21back pocket will mean you process defeats differently or maybe it doesn't work like that and it's still
09:26you know a defeat is a defeat and the fact that you won a big tournament a few months ago becomes
09:30irrelevant I don't think I personally felt the flatness after I know if I was basically just
09:41horizontal on my couch for a week just trying to mentally and emotionally just recover um but I
09:50can see how that happens uh it it's like I said you spend all this time wondering what it's going to
09:58feel like and then it happens and I think if you've if it's something that you kind of need and you think
10:06it's going to be life-changing I can see how it feels a little bit deflating um and I think that
10:14it's just the hard part about tennis is that you have this amazing win and there's a tournament two
10:19days later and people kind of start talking about who won that tournament and then someone else wins
10:24the next week and other sports have months where they get to celebrate it and all that and we have
10:31tournaments we're supposed to play two weeks later so I can see how that happens and I can see how
10:38we kind of all I think immediately fall into the habit of what's next uh and I think that I've really
10:47tried to just kind of take the time to appreciate what I did what I achieved and not forget that too
10:56quickly and kind of just really appreciate it but also the reality is we're at another grand slam and
11:03someone else is going to be the winner in two weeks and um you want to try to do everything that
11:10you can to make sure that it's you. Okay last one. You are the only player in the field who's capable of
11:19learning the calendar slam has there been has ever has there been any have you guys joked about that
11:25on the court at all? No. Okay. We haven't. Should have. All right. Thank you.