Elisabetta Cocciaretto confesses, “I burst into tears.”

The words of Elisabetta Cocciaretto

Elisabetta Cocciaretto è confessed in a press conference after her comeback victory in three sets (3-6 6-4 6-1) against Brazilian Beatriz Haddad Maia, the number 13 seed in the seeding, which gave her access to the second round of Roland Garros, where she will face Spain’s Cristina Bucsa, number 73 in the WTA ranking.

"The match è changed when I went to the bathroom at the end of the first set and burst into tears – admitted the Marche tennis player -, it was the first time it happened in my life. I was nervous, I cared so much but I could not do what I wanted".

"With that cry è as if I freed myself,” the blue added, “then I started to be more aggressive, to go a little bit more forward and that allowed me to get back into the match. È lasted a minute but probably those tears allowed me to release the tension".

"This year sometimes I got a little lost because I didn’t accept the idea that I had to struggle and that the’opponent would catch up with me. Instead, you have to enter the field in the’view that we are all there’to win and difficulties are part of the game" concluded Cocciaretto.