A Roland-Garros,
The pain was too strong. On Thursday, Cornet seemed to feel pain in the inside and upper left thigh at the end of her match against Latvian Jelena Ostapenko (6-0, 1-6, 6-3). “On a run at 4-2 in the third I felt pain on a forehand side slip. The next day I woke up with pain, blew the Frenchwoman at a press conference. She was there during the warm-up. I still have a pretty big tear in the adductor. I couldn’t move around the court. Afterwards, it was my decision to return to the field, I had never forfeited a Grand Slam, nor abandoned either. It was therefore not possible for me not to at least try on what I could give today.
On Saturday, the Niçoise actually appeared on the court with both thighs largely bandaged and could not defend her chances against Zheng: “But after warming up, I saw that even with the strap I was in pain. .. Afterwards, she really didn’t let me breathe either, it was also largely because of her that I lost 6/0 3/0 and not just because of the injury. But the pain, at some point, it doesn’t make too much sense to continue. I have never declared in Grand Slam, nor abandoned. She estimates that she should be away from the courts at least, two to three weeks.
The 40th in the world had called the doctor at the end of the first set and ended up throwing in the towel, three games later. And part of the public did not like it. Worn two days ago by Chatrier in a fiery atmosphere, the world number one was, this time, whistled by part of the public. Change of scenery. “It’s sad to end like this. There are people who have dared to boo me on the court when I give up, when it’s not with a light heart. The French public surprises me, but not always in a good way, she said on the verge of tears. It hurt me almost more than the injury itself. Afterwards, we must not generalize, it is perhaps a handful of people in the stadium. It can be 20, 30 or 40 people making noise, it doesn’t mean anything but when you see what I have been giving on the pitch for all these years, how much it means to me. It would have been much easier for me not to go on the court, not to make myself vulnerable with this injury. I was true to who I am. Yes, it sucks because it’s unfair. It hurts but, again, maybe most people are sad for me and understand what’s happening, but this bunch of morons, it hurts my heart.”
