Jasmine Paolini returns to what went wrong and makes a clarification

Now all Jasmine Paolini’s efforts are focused on doubles

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A blazing start, then the slow decline and a third set with no more energy: this is how one can summarize the match that, on Saturday, marked Jasmine Paolini's farewell to the Australian Open singles draw, as she gave way 2-6, 6-4, 6-0 to Elina Svitolina, after an hour and forty-nine minutes of play.

Cold-mindedly, to the microphones of Eurosport, the Versilia athlete è returned to the decline that began in the second set, making a clarification: "After a good first set, I almost immediately went down by a break and I think that was what marked the change of intensity, negatively for me and positively for her. Svitolina did nothing wrong, I will have to be more careful on serve next time".

The world No. 4 doesn't think that the lack of history with the Ukrainian has somehow been a disadvantage: "I met her in training, I knew what to expect. She's been at a high level for so many years, to beat her you have to maintain a very high quality of play from the first to the last point. Today it did not è happen".

Another clarification concerns the surface, according to some unfavorable for Paolini, who instead retorted: "I have played well, in my career, also on concrete and against Svitolina I was inside the match. Then I started losing some points badly and the intensity on my part è dropped. When that happens è it is difficult to get back up. Now we think about the double".