By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Tuesday July 30, 2024
If you fail to transform a match level and find yourself dropping on the Olympics, there’s sure to be frustration. American Emma Navarro let her anger be felt after falling to China’s Zheng Qinwen on Tuesday in Paris, 6-7(7), 7-6(4), 6-1.
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“I simply informed her I did not respect her as a competitor,” Navarro mentioned when requested what she mentioned throughout the pair’s heated trade on the web after the match, in accordance with the AFP. “I feel she goes about issues in a fairly cut-throat approach. It makes for a locker room that does not have a variety of camaraderie, so it is powerful to face an opponent like that, who I actually do not respect.
Probably the most sudden drama of the day got here after the unimaginable Zheng-Navarro battle.
Qinwen received after saving match level. The handshake was tense and defined by each gamers afterwords.
Navarro. “I simply informed her I did not respect her as a competitor. I feel she goes about… pic.twitter.com/T6jYQFRaYp
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Navarro additionally led 5-3 within the second set of a wild encounter that lasted three hours and 12 minutes. The American had her match level with Zheng serving at 3-5, ad-out.
Zheng received 11 of the ultimate 13 factors of the set after which raced via the decider to ebook a quarterfinal conflict with Angelique Kerber.
“Kudos to her, she performed some good tennis there on the finish. She performed higher than me, so congrats to her,” Navarro added.
Zheng mentioned she was open to criticism.
“She informed me she does not understand how I’ve a variety of followers,” the sixth-seeded Chinese language mentioned.
“It seems like she’s not pleased with my behaviour in the direction of her. If she’s not completely satisfied about my behaviour, she will be able to come and inform me. I want to appropriate it to develop into a greater participant and a greater individual.
“I am glad that she informed me that. I can’t contemplate it an assault as a result of she misplaced the match.”
