ROLAND GARROS

May 31, 2021

Bianca Andreescu

Press Conference

T. ZIDANSEK/B. Andreescu

6-7, 7-6, 9-7

THE MODERATOR: Questions, please.

Q. Incredible effort out there. What's your take on the match? I know it must be pretty hard to take right now.

BIANCA ANDREESCU: Yeah, it is. From my part, I didn't feel like I played good tennis today. But at the same time, she played really, really well. She threw me off a lot with her heavy, spinny shots and her variety.

But at least thinking on the positive side I'm healthy, and I was able to fight as hard as I could.

Q. Do you feel like, because you haven't had too much time on the clay, that it's kind of in those crucial moments it was difficult to take it up a couple of gears?

BIANCA ANDREESCU: I don't know what it was really. Today just wasn't my day.

I think I prepared super, super well for this tournament. That's why to me it's very disappointing, because I thought I could go far. I try not to, like, have a lot of expectations, but that comes naturally for, like, for anyone. As a human being, that's just how we see things. And I just wanted to take it match after match today, point after point, game after game.

Hopefully the hard work that I did put in today and over the past couple of weeks will really show hopefully for the grass, for the hard court season, all of that.

Q. You have been through a lot recently in terms of COVID and injuries. What's kind of kept you focused? What's kept you upbeat?

BIANCA ANDREESCU: My hunger for the game, my hunger to compete. That's really all it is. I'm super passionate about this sport, and I want to continue to do great things and be an inspiration.

During these tough moments, like I want to show a good example to a lot of people. Like, yeah, it sucks right now for me and I can just right now learn from it, because that's what life's all about, you learn from your mistakes. I made a couple today, but that's part of life.

I just want to keep my head up, feel what I feel right now. I might cry a lot tonight, but tomorrow is a new day.

Q. Tough loss today. I know that you mentioned grass a little while ago, and you probably haven't given it too much thought yet, but do you have any sense of what tournaments you'll play leading into Wimbledon? How are you kind of feeling going into grass having not played it in quite a while?

BIANCA ANDREESCU: Yeah, same thing with the clay. I'm just going to practice a lot on grass now. I don't know where I'm going to go. Haven't really talked about that with my team yet, but I am signed up for Berlin and Eastbourne, so hopefully I can play both of them healthy and all, and then be ready for Wimby.

Q. How did you feel physically after such a long match like today? Was it a good sign for you, even with the result didn't coming your way?

BIANCA ANDREESCU: Physically I felt good. I started to get a little bit tired at one point, but I think it mainly came from the mental side of things, because today I didn't feel like I could control my emotions as well as I normally do.

I don't know if it's because I didn't play a lot of matches on clay. And even though, like, I played really well in Strasbourg, so to me it's super surprising. But, yeah, like, I tried my best with what I had today, but Tamara just really, really played well. And, yeah, that's all I can say really.

I just have to learn for the next one.