Saba broke down and cried after missing the championship, and the tennis legend pointed out the reason for the loss: emotional exhaustion turned into a fatal injury

After the nearly three-hour French Open title match with Gauff, no one expected that Sabalenka, who has always been known for her optimism and open-mindedness, would break down and cry, which is very rare in the experience of Belarusian girls in previous losses.

Sabalenka, the top seed at this year's French Open, has been the bookmaker's favourite since her debut. With the excellent competitive form and excellent quality shown on the way to qualification, when Sabalenka showed her ambition and shouted her goal of winning the championship, no one would doubt that the Belarusian girl could not do it.

Even in the final with the American girl Gauff, in terms of the latest odds offered by the bookmaker to win the championship, Sabalenka also beat Gauff's 1 to 1.53 and 2.62, and was favored to win the cup.

Especially after seeing Sabalenka's dream start of 4-1 in the first set, fans and netizens immediately shouted in the live broadcast room that Gauff's performance was like a primary school student in front of the unstoppable world No. 1.

No one expected that this situation would not be the beginning of Gauff's quick defeat, but would become a watershed moment in the whole game.

When Gauff tied the score and fought to the tie-break, even if Sabalenka finally had the last laugh in the tie-break, at that time, in the eyes of fans and netizens in the live broadcast room, it was not easy for Sabalenka to win the championship.

If the 4-1 lead was chased by Gauff to score the score, it was his mentality that slackened after the lead and gave the opponent a chance to take advantage of it, then it was definitely Sabalenka's problem that he did not win two consecutive service games and finally had to decide the winner of the first set through a tie-break. The signal revealed to the outside world is that when Gauff comes up with his own plan to deal with the world No. 1, everything will become complicated. This also meant that it was unlikely that Sabalenka would have been able to catch fish in the clear water as she had at the start of the first set, which had been completely muddled by Gauff.

From the second set onwards, Gauff said before the match that against an opponent like Sabalenka, who hits hard and attacks fiercely, he must have a plan, and what everyone wants to know about this plan is also slowly surfaced: that is, I will not fight with you, try every means to resist your first three or five beats, and patiently maneuver with you through multiple shots, and then look for opportunities to win against you.

It worked very well against Sabalenka, which is why Gauff was able to win two sets in a row, 6-2 and 6-4, to defeat Sabalenka.

After the match, some people said that although Sabalenka slowly lost her absolute advantage in the first set, she could at least maintain the situation, why did she look like a different person from the second set? Gauff's plan worked to put pressure on the world No. 1, causing Sabalenka to fail the more she tried to deliver the tennis ball she was happy with. In addition, the inability to eliminate stress and the resulting impatience makes it even more difficult to be number one in the world! While the pressure affected the Belarusian girl's mentality, it also made her serve extremely unstable, and her mistakes were difficult to control effectively, so the balance of victory naturally began to tip in Gauff's favor.

The relevant statistics after the game showed that Sabalenka's non-errors were more than twice that of Gauff, which shows how much pressure the Belarusian girl was under on the field at that time.

American tennis legend Davenport pointed out the reason when summing up Sabalenka's loss, "Emotional exhaustion becomes a fatal wound!" Gauff remained calm throughout, while Sabalenka reverted to the emotionally dominant form she had been in a few years ago, a warning to the world number one. ”

Davenport's words also made people look at the 21-year-old Gauff, who showed the ultimate psychological maturity completely different from age at such a young age, and the future is limitless.

When the American girl talked about the match against Sabalenka before the game, she directly stated that she didn't care about losing, because there will always be someone who wants to lose, and even if she loses, it is not the end of the world, and she can see the sun tomorrow. As it turned out, Gauff was indeed as she said, even if she faced such a big score in the first set, she also gave people a sense of detachment in terms of mentality, and there was no sign of her eagerness to tie the score, which was completely different from Sabalenka's mentality, and also laid a solid foundation for her to run to the finish of victory.

After losing this crucial match, everyone thought that Sabalenka would still be the same optimistic and positive girl who would face this defeat with a smile, but this time the Belarusian girl's performance was a surprise.

Sabalenka cried in public at the award ceremony and finished her speech with tears in her eyes.

In fact, everyone can also understand Sabalenka's sudden uncontrollable crying after the match, losing to her opponent after three sets of hard battles at the Australian Open and French Open in a row, such a blow is too big, not to mention that she is the absolute favorite to win the championship.

Sabalenka burst into tears at Roland Garros, mainly disappointed with her performance as she said she had played a very bad match and messed up the final.

Sabalenka's defeat to Gauff missed her first French Open title and missed out on a chance to get one step closer to a Grand Slam career.

With this victory over Sabalenka, Gauff not only won more than 20 million yuan in the grand prize, but also tore off the Grand Slam label on his body in one fell swoop, increasing his number of Grand Slam titles to two, which is really a good thing! And the American girl successfully reversed Sabalenka to win, and the celebration action lying on the ground after the game was also called "too handsome" by her supporters!

After such a setback at the French Open, there are concerns that Sabalenka's confidence will fall to a low point? Don't worry, the Belarusian girl has made it clear, "Please believe that I will come back stronger." ”(Source: Tennis House Author: Starry Sky of Moon River)