“Basically, she's super aggressive player. “I'll try to be a goalkeeper there on the court,” joked the football fan. One thing she doesn’t face every week is a hyper-aggressive Garcia, who has commanded attention with an audacious return stance that puts her inches from the service line. “This is exactly what we face every single week.” “For me, this one is more understandable,” Kasatkina said with hardly concealed relief at avoiding a potential tiebreaker or otherwise obscure advancement scenario. With one group match to go, the win turns round robin into an effective early knockout: tied with next opponent Caroline Garcia, the winner of their Saturday clash advances into the semifinals. Fighting through tears in the opening set after losing a 4-1 lead, the American was ultimately overawed by Kasatkina, who improved to 3-0 against the teenager as Dirk Nowitzki and Jason Kidd looked on. Where Kasatkina had one loss to shake off, Gauff was fit to be tied after three straight defeats-two in doubles with Jessica Pegula. I felt unusual, let's say, but pretty happy how I handled the situation which was quite new for me.” “I had to push myself to practice next day like nothing happened and prepare for the next match,” she explained, bemused. 8 seed, who has compared her internal monologue to a “hurricane,” had a more complex emotional reaction. Though Kasatkina appeared resolute in the wake of a deflating opening loss to top seed Iga Swiatek, the No. I pack my bags and I go to the airport.’ And here is completely different.” “It was not easy, I must say,” she said after rallying to 1-1 in the Tracy Austin Group standings with a win over Coco Gauff, “because normally if you lost you're just like, ‘Okay, the tournament is done. Not so in the WTA Finals’ unique round-robin format, where group action plays out over three matches, win or lose.ĭaria Kasatkina admitted took getting used to in press on Thursday. FORT WORTH, Texas-They call it a knockout draw for a reason: one strike and you’re out.
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