Danielle Collins’ US Open Singles Career Ends In Defeat to Dolehide

By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Tuesday August 27, 2024

The Grand Slam profession of Danielle Collins has come to an finish, however her profession lives on.

After falling to compatriot Caroline Dolehide on Louis Armstrong Stadium, the 30-year-old informed reporters that she plans to complete the season – if her physique permits it.

“I am nonetheless enjoying the remainder of the yr, or a minimum of that is the plan proper now,” she mentioned after falling to Dolehide, 1-6, 7-5, 6-4. “You by no means know with life’s challenges and, you recognize, well being stuff. We’ll see. However yeah, I used to be sort of simply bummed I could not play a few of my greatest tennis. I used to be in all places with my pictures. I really feel like my timing was a bit off, and stamina and this and that.”

Collins drops to 7-9 on the US Open lifetim. She by no means made it past the spherical of 16, which she did in 2022.

Collins mentioned she wasn’t feeling very contemporary as she entered the attract Flushing Meadows. It confirmed down the stretch as she squandered a set lead and made 41 unforced errors throughout the ultimate two units (49 total, towards 48 winners).

There was certainly a ceremony prepared for Danielle Collins however she was so quick leaving the court docket that Stacey Allaster could not even give her the flowers pic.twitter.com/m7h3LljwSy

— José Morgado (@josemorgado) August 27, 2024

“Nobody out right here is resistant to having unhealthy days,” she mentioned. “I’ve bodily actually been by way of it, you recognize, for the reason that Olympics, so it has been a wrestle.”

Collins didn’t have a post-match ceremony, as a result of she requested the match to permit her to do one thing in personal. She’s additionally nonetheless within the doubles draw, however don’t count on a presentation after that, both.

“I am nonetheless within the doubles, and I had requested to not have any presentation on the court docket,” she mentioned. “I am not someone that likes to have fun my accomplishments. “I’ve struggled with feeling guilt, round success, and that is one thing I’ve needed to work on. So I am not nice, truthfully, at having an all-about-me second. I simply would favor to do one thing like that possibly in personal.

“However I really feel like I’ve gotten sufficient consideration to final a lifetime.”