“I think it’s important for me to feel like, ‘OK, I got everything I could out of myself as an athlete, and end on a positive note, rather than being like, ‘Oh, God, what happened?’ That’s just how I want to go down,” she said after defeating Azarenka.
“This has certainly been the biggest stretch of wins I’ve had in my career and I do think that because I’ve been making those improvements, it’s led to me playing some of the best tennis that I’ve played so far, which is super rewarding because you go through periods where you might take three steps forward, and you might take four steps back some weeks.
“It’s kind of like the stock market. It’s really up and down sometimes and it’s not always inch by inch by inch going up. It’s been nice, like to have a stretch where I’ve really been climbing because it’s not always like that. I think you have to be really happy for yourself in these moments because it doesn’t always work out that way.”
