There's going to be noise, but you just have to switch it on in the important moments. "You have to be mentally strong throughout the whole tournament," Swiatek told ESPN. She slammed her racket down on the court and walked slowly to her towel, not even glancing back over her shoulder at her father and coach Corey.Swiatek became the first woman to win seven titles in one year since Serena Williams in 2014. She missed a backhand at deuce and then landed a first serve at break point, only to dump the short forehand into the net. The second started like the first, with Gauff missing balls she should make and handing Garcia the advantage. You could hear them in every corner of Arthur Ashe Stadium, which was virtually silenced otherwise. She pumped her fist in the direction of her box, where her parents Mary Lene and Louis Paul her parents in the box and cheered as much as they could. Instead the long rallies were all going her way, unbeaten in that set on exchanges of nine shots or more. She did break back eventually but was already 4-0 down in the opener when she did so and the deficit was already too great, even though Garcia was serving with much less than her usual accuracy. The truth was that Gauff gave them very little to get behind, hitting just three baseline winners in the first set.
“I didn’t expect Serena-like support but I did expect a little more encouragement.” “I am surprised the crowd hasn’t got behind Coco more,” said Evert. The bad news for Gauff was that it felt like there was room for improvement in the Frenchwoman’s game she was barely landing half of her first serves, perhaps her greatest weapon, but so great was her dominance on the forehand wing and ability to step inside the baseline even against Gauff’s historically big first serve (not to mention against her far weaker second serve) made it virtually impossible for the American to get a foothold in the match. You might argue Gauff’s game got stuck on the Long Island Expressway too as Garcia took the first four games, showing the kind of return game and baseline ball-striking that has earned her 12 wins in a row and three titles this summer. Gauff started the evening in front of rows and rows of empty seats a combined result of rush hour traffic and rain, apparently, caused havoc with getting people into Flushing Meadows in a timely fashion. I think it makes me want to work even harder. “First quarter-final, too, at the US Open, so there’s a lot to be proud of.
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