La finaliste 2024, Jasmine Paolini, est passée proche de l'élimination dès le premier tour de Roland-Garros dimanche. Breakée dans la dernière manche, elle a trouvé le déclic pour s'en sortir contre la Chinoise Yue Yuan (6-1, 4-6, 6-3). Un premier tour bien compliqué pour une des favorites du tournoi. L'essentiel a tout de même été fait et la gagnante du WTA 1000 de Rome aura l'occasion de monter en puissance contre Ajla Tomljanovic ou Maya Joint.
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00:00BNP Paribas, partenaire des plus belles histoires de Roland Garros, aux côtés des ramasseurs de balles depuis plus de cinquante ans.
00:18Yes, up and down are the right words and it was a tough match. The first set came so fast for me and then my attention and intensity was a little bit going down,
00:34but I'm happy I managed to come back, especially in the third because it wasn't easy.
00:40Yes, congrats. How is it to be here as a finalist of last year and do you have the feeling that people are looking in another way to you?
00:55I don't know. To be here after the final of last year, of course somehow is special, but at the same time trying to keep the expectation low
01:09and trying to focus on the match that I have to play and today sometimes it works, sometimes it not.
01:16But, you know, that's the goal to try to think about the present and what's coming in the next match.
01:27I don't know, we have to ask my opponents, but of course I'm playing better than maybe last year.
01:38You know, I had an amazing season last year, so I came here maybe with more result, more consistency as well.
01:49But at the same time I think that every match, you know, it's tricky here and so it's tough, but I hope that, I don't know,
01:59somehow they step on court and they say, okay, today is going to be tough, but I don't know, I don't have this feeling.
02:08Last question. What do you have improved the most compared to last year?
02:13I don't know, this is a tough question, but we try to improve, always we try to put the best into the court every time, it's not easy.
02:27But from the last year, in this period before the Ranga Ross, I think I had more consistency during the season.
02:34And that's, I think, that's one of the things that keep you to play at this level, you know,
02:42and that's one of the most important, to play always somehow good.
