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.
A loss to the rising Chinese language left snakebitten Navarro rueing her missed alternative.
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“I simply advised her I did not respect her as a competitor,” Navarro stated when requested what she stated in the course of the pair’s heated alternate on the internet after the match, in keeping with the AFP. “I believe she goes about issues in a fairly cut-throat manner. It makes for a locker room that does not have loads 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 unbelievable Zheng-Navarro battle.
Qinwen gained after saving match level. The handshake was tense and defined by each gamers afterwords.
Navarro. “I simply advised her I did not respect her as a competitor. I believe 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 gained 11 of the ultimate 13 factors of the set after which raced via the decider to guide 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 stated she was open to criticism.
“She advised me she does not understand how I’ve loads of followers,” the sixth-seeded Chinese language stated.
“It seems like she’s not proud of my behaviour in the direction of her. If she’s not blissful about my behaviour, she will be able to come and inform me. I want to right it to develop into a greater participant and a greater individual.
“I am glad that she advised me that. I can’t contemplate it an assault as a result of she misplaced the match.”
