Andrea Petkovic: 'I really don't like playing Alison [Riske]'
Andrea Petkovic rallied from a set down to win her pass to the French Open second round. Her 2-6 6-3 7-5 victory over Alison Riske left the German quite satisfied, “I'm feeling great. I'm feeling good. I'm really happy with the win. I really don't like playing Alison. I think she's a great competitor, and she just has a game that is complicated for me to deal with. She plays so flat, and she's just a fighter. And I think we are both great competitors so I was a little short in the beginning. My strokes were a little short and then she really took full control and played incredibly well.
So I was really glad I served a couple of good serves when it was most important and was able to turn it around, yeah.”
The French Grand Slam is home to the World No. 69’s best result on the WTA tour. She made the semifinals in Roland Garros in 2014, and it shows in her appreciation for the event, “I love it here. I mean, I really see that people complain about that it's very small, I guess, for a Grand Slam. But I love it here. I just -- I have a weakness for Paris and France. And I just think it's charming, everything about it. I know there's a lot of people, but we are lucky we can just hide in the locker room. So that's okay for us.
And I find it charming, so I really like it here.”
A tennis player’s life is most of the times importantly shaped by hard decisions, and Petkovic shared some of hers during her press conference, “Well, for my life, definitely when I convinced my dad to let me play tennis because he was really fixated on me going to college. And I convinced him to give me two years to play tennis, so that was definitely one big decision.
And the other one I guess just continuing every day, day-to-day decision, especially once you're my age in the tennis. I guess it's just a day-by-day. There are hard days, there are nice days, but it's just day by day you choose to be here.
And I'm very grateful that I get the opportunity that I still love it, that I still enjoy it, and that gets me through the tough days for now. So I think those are the -- I think the little decisions really make the biggest difference in the end.”
Petkovic will try to get past 25th seed Su-Wei Hsieh in the next round in order to chase after she established the best result of French Open semifinalist.
from Tennis World USA http://bit.ly/2MfDlkM
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