Elina Svitolina
Press Conference
E. SVITOLINA/Ok. Siniakova
6-1, 1-1 [Ret.]
THE MODERATOR: Elina, clearly not the way in which you need to end a match, however what are you most happy about along with your recreation?
ELINA SVITOLINA: Definitely want a speedy restoration. Katerina, she had nice wins right here, nice match. So in fact very unfortunate for her to complete a match like this. Lots of positives for her to tackle.
For me, it is slightly bit extra time to recuperate for tomorrow’s large match.
THE MODERATOR: Questions.
Q. You study lots about individuals if you’re on the street with them. What’s one thing that you just discovered about Gael touring with him, and what’s one thing he discovered about you?
ELINA SVITOLINA: Interesting query. I’d say, I do not know, he is very chilled individual. I feel, you recognize, spending much less time outdoors, you recognize, saving slightly bit extra power. Of course, you recognize, he is eight years older than me, so in fact he preserves a whole lot of power, greater than me (smiling), and his recreation is extra bodily. So I feel he form of, you recognize, shared extra of that to me.
I do not know, truly. I feel it is a good query for him additionally to ask what did he take away from me (smiling).
Q. How do you assume issues have modified in tennis by way of gender equality during the last decade, say? (*11*) you have got had time away with maternity and that form of factor. Do you assume issues are transferring in the correct route? What type of issues would you wish to see change in that regard?
ELINA SVITOLINA: Well, I feel positively need to see extra equal prize cash on the WTA tournaments, due to course in Grand Slams we’re equal, however I feel there’s nonetheless a giant hole between like 250s, 500s, and 1000s, so I feel some tournaments in fact made it, so I feel need to see extra of that.
I feel there are extra issues modified over the time once I began, it was years in the past now, however yeah, I feel we are able to see that, you recognize, there are individuals watching, just like the views are nice for girls’s matches, semifinals, finals. So I feel we additionally deserve a bit extra on that.
Q. What about scheduling?
ELINA SVITOLINA: Scheduling, I feel it is improved. It’s improved lots, and I feel now it is all the time girls’s match and males’s match night time classes. I feel it is improved massively.
Q. This isn’t the case on your subsequent match, however what’s your technique for making ready for opponents you have got by no means performed earlier than? And is it completely different?
ELINA SVITOLINA: It is slightly bit completely different, as a result of I watch some movies on the YouTube and I attempt to discover some content material on gamers that typically even, like, face some gamers, it was not too long ago, who I by no means seen, like, enjoying on the TV, for instance, within the locker room and someplace.
Yeah, I do a little analysis, and naturally my coach is also doing lots. And then, you recognize, after we speak techniques, he exhibits me, like, some movies and the way in which that the participant is enjoying. Yeah, so perhaps mixtures, or yeah, some patterns {that a} participant does so I do further, I’d say, as a result of the gamers that I performed couple of occasions usually, yeah, I do not watch as a lot YouTube.
Q. Have you ever come out and performed somebody and it did not, like, the sensation of their ball was fully completely different than what you had seen or what you thought?
ELINA SVITOLINA: Yeah, been couple of occasions, as a result of on the YouTube, for instance, within the movies, you can’t see the form that the participant is enjoying.
The heaviness, as properly, as a result of I feel from some racquets, from some strings, the balls are coming off a bit heavier. Sometimes it may be, in some circumstances, that it’s different manner round the place there’s a large hitter, however the ball, it feels mild. And then a few of them had been, you recognize, there’s a lot of spin on the ball or the strings, like, offers you a whole lot of spin, the ball is heavier naturally.
Yeah, it is a bit of, yeah, like combination of various issues.
Q. Do you’re feeling just like the world has form of forgotten concerning the warfare in Ukraine?
ELINA SVITOLINA: Yeah, I imply, for certain. I really feel this fashion. I’m nonetheless very a lot in it, as a result of, you recognize, I’ve my household there, my buddies are there. I am going again very often there, as properly.
But I feel due to the opposite wars, as properly, all over the world, I feel it is, yeah, not the headlines anymore for a very long time.
Q. Someone who supported the Ukrainian gamers fairly a bit is somebody you are going to see within the subsequent spherical, Iga Swiatek. Can you say a phrase about that matchup with Iga?
ELINA SVITOLINA: Yeah, she was one of many first ones truly who actually, yeah, supported Ukraine, and he or she was carrying the ribbon for a very long time, speaking about it, concerning the warfare for a lot of, many occasions.
You know, we did, you recognize, the match for Ukraine. Raised, you recognize, they raised a lot of cash for the trigger.
So for me, you recognize, she all the time been and all the time would be the participant who did probably the most.
