Parry: “I missed a lot of things”

The great adventure of the French Diane Parry at Roland-Garros came to an end on Friday with a 6-2, 6-3 defeat of the 97th in the world against the American Sloane Stephens (64th), finalist in 2018. ‘missed a lot of things’ to win, she agreed. “She really is a top-level player, she showed it today. She just shows us everything that is wrong and all there is to improve in our game,” added the 19-year-old player. “You really have to be super solid at this level. You should not give points for free, you have to be solid in the exchanges, physically, in each blow to be quite stable. I’m disappointed not to have managed to do better in this match. I felt that if I had given less points for free, if I had felt my backhand a little better, I might have managed to do better. She was the one who pushed me to play like that. I was trying to build, but at some point I still had to take the initiative to try to finish the stitch, because she wasn’t the one who was going to give it to me. »