Paula Badosa Press Conference | 2024 US Open Quarterfinal

okay let's begin Paul if you could your thoughts on the match um well I'm very disappointed with my level today I think she played really good and she managed the situation really well and I and I was a completely disaster thank you questions in English one question each Brian in in your mind what changed the momentum from when you I guess you were up 5-1 and then I never had the momentum in this match I played four or five games okay it was 51 but I never felt myself in the court I didn't feel serving well playing well from the Baseline that's my my biggest um strain so I think today it's surprisingly because I was playing reallyy good the other matches I was feeling good but when I walked into the court I think I didn't manage well the situation or or the emotions was a big hard to handle for me I wanted to win so much that sometimes that um doesn't help at all right I think you just said you're disaster or something like that do you mean the way you were playing or the way you sort of mentally reacted everything everything this is the first time that it happens to me in my career I think uh losing a set from 5-1 up I never did that before so I hope I think it's there's always a first time for something so it had to come today unfortunately and um I don't know uh I still need to think what happened because I'm I had two service games there also I started to miss I I lost I don't know 20 points almost in a row it's very weird for me because I'm quite a consistent player so I wasn't expecting that either so I'm I'm quite disappointed a tough question to ask a player after a loss but could you talk about Emma and her game what what makes her strong and why she's had this WR here please well she's a very calm player first of all and that's very important when you go to a slam to take get the way I mean put your emotions on the side that's that's maybe the thing that sometimes I don't handle pretty well and uh she does that really well and then she's very talented very good backhand and very good forehand she has um Variety in her game so that that's that's really important and she's a great player so congrats to her courton and David according Tok paa uh did you feel normal I guess this morning when you woke up or warming up everything the way it's felt in the past few days and you said it was your first obviously time on ash I don't know if stepping out there kind of reminded you of the occasion or something yeah I was I was great in the morning I just I just stepped on the court and I and I felt weird and it's it was I was surprised on myself because normally I like to play these things but it's not I think it's not the court it was more the round for me you know and seeing myself sometimes so close so far but so close at the same time and with a good level you just your your mind is very tough to to stay on in the present you know and I think my mind was everywhere except in in the present and it's something I've been working and I've been uh improving so much but it's something that also hurt me so much in my career you know sometimes wanting it so much and thinking ahead of it and uh sometimes I I can't even focus in that moment and I think today was a little bit that you know David David G tennis.com with how successful you have been this summer leading up to this result do you think with some distance you'll be able to look back on the totality of the last few weeks and say this was maybe not as much of a disaster as yeah now I say it's a disaster but um I know it's I when I started in Washington I would signed all the result results for sure and coming from where I'm coming from I'm I'm look at have to be happy I don't know maybe I'm 15 in the race so I I wasn't expecting that a few months ago so on that I'm really proud of myself the thing that that for me makes me the way I am today it's it's just it's a slam and you know your dream is always to to make last rounds in a slam you know and Performing the way I perform today I KN I know that if it wasn't a slam I I would I would perform well so that's what's a little bit what what why I'm like this this today you know because I didn't know how to handle it um the best way and now I have to wait four months for the next slam so it sucks best question to English Charlie Charlie athletic I I just wondered um if you're the kind of person who will sort of think about what happened today and you know why you weren't able to perform or just try and kind of put it out of your mind and you know forget about it no I'm I'm the first one I'm very obsessive and uh I think about the things and I don't I don't like to make the same mistake two times that's also what what brought me where I am but um maybe that also I will think about it too much so I will try to um especially my team will help me like not to um how do you say uh yeah myself like to D out to D to destroy myself um I even forgot how to speak English Today imagine what a day man can I go to sleep