PRESS CONFERENCE | BIANCA ANDREESCU - ROUND 1 | #NBO24

right we'll go ahead and get started Bianca we'll start with me um tough fight for you today can you talk about your performance I think I played uh some of my best tennis um for the first set in a little bit and then uh tennis just kicks you right in the butt sometimes and obviously she found her footing and yeah um it's great that I got those four games at the end but you know that's it with with the roller coaster was how will you how will you remember tonight with all the anticipation the disappointment the you know the attempting to come back how will I remember tonight um well right now all I can really think about is how shitty I feel um but if I can go back to before the match and I mean just before the tournament um it was great I I was feeling really great coming into the tournament feeling um my tennis really well mentally too you know having my family and friends here and a lot of my supporters from Canada it's beautiful I'm very blessed um and yeah I obviously I don't want to be discouraged um but it's just so hard when you're playing literally for me that was the best tennis I've ever played in my life and then for a match to just turn around like that it sucks so yeah I don't want to be too down on myself I'm going to give myself today and that's it tomorrow I just I got to regroup what did change in that second I guess in the second game of the second set moving forward obviously she changed her game style for sure I felt like she was a complete wall today like I could not break her at all and then in turn that makes me think about how I'm doing like am I not doing something right or like should I be doing more um and it was just this constant battle with myself on what to do cuz I've obviously played her before and that's how she plays like when she's at her best and yeah I was I guess trying to slice sometimes the drop shot wasn't really working today cuz when somebody's hitting very flat and hard and deep in the Center that's what she was doing um it's hard to really change the Rhythm um and obviously my my first serve percentage dropped a lot so that didn't help hi Bianca um did it weigh on you at at all going in knowing she had beaten you the the previous two times or did you feel pretty clear-headed about it just going into the match for sure uh that's crossed my mind uh but I felt like I had a decent game plan and I think that first that really showed it so yeah that definitely um kind of went away for a bit but then it came back and I'm like okay this is this is what I'm supposed to expect kind of yeah and and just following up you you said you played uh some incredible tennis in the first set um can you maybe use that as a spring board or something positive as as a takeaway as you continue into the summer hard courts definitely if I can play like that I think I can beat anybody I just have to stay consistent with it it's funny cuz this usually happens um and I don't know why like when I play really well in the first set unconsciously like these thoughts come up and it's like oh my God you're playing so well like this is great you know and then in a way I jinx it I don't know but I don't even want to be thinking about that you know it just it's tough it's definitely an inner battle and um yeah tennis is um tennis is tenis I've heard that I know yeah hey Bianca tough one tonight uh it really felt like a tale of three different matches because you had your match I mean your first set and then I think she rolled off like 10 of the next 11 games and you really came back strong in that third so I guess what was going through your mind when you were making the comeback in those four games that you were able to win and you were really battling and and hanging in there with her at that point I honestly had no idea what to do like I said she was just she was a complete wall um and I was like I have to change something and if I don't start going for it or I don't know doing something different I felt maybe I was going too much to her backand so I started going more to her beforehand and it's yeah it started working a little bit um and then also putting more pressure on the return to it's tough with uh with her serve because it like slices into your body and it's like you feel like you have so many options but yeah I Tred to just keep it simple and I think that helped a lot but it's nice to know that I have that fight in me uh I know it's uh it's pretty fresh and you said you you'll take today and you'll you you'll proc and then tomorrow's a new day but I mean what is your plan on you're playing Cincy uh next week are you planning to stick around the rest of the week to train or are you heading straight over there I would love to stay here an extra few days um yeah I'll probably stay here a few days and then head over to ciny maybe I don't know Thursday or Friday I do when does the main draw start do you know is it like here Tuesday Wednesday first round okay yeah okay um you do a lot of visualization work so when you're down you know deficit in the SE set like five love um are you drawing uncertain memories in your head when you're thinking about that like is it specific to a tournament like obviously like this tournament you won before like do you think about moments like that in the past to kind of give you that extra um motivation you kind of dig through for sure I mean I I train mentally for those moments um but again I I feel like you can visualize as much as you want and meditate as much as you want but it doesn't prepare you for the actual thing because anything can really happen so all you can do is you know prepare your best but being in the situation is obviously different and yeah coming into the tournament I I've been trying to figure out what mindset I should have going in because this is one of the most important tournaments for me of the season so it's like do I I you know put uh put that pressure on myself like yeah I want to win or do I kind of just go with the mindset of you know let's have fun let's see what happens so I I feel like during the match I was battling myself with that but at the end of the day the main thing for me is to try to stay in the present moment again when those emotions arise it's really hard to um but I felt like my attitude overall was pretty decent let a let some screams out that helped maybe too many bianka you recently started to work with a new coach would you be able to share some insights into how that is going and how the Team Dynamics are shaping up yeah it's going great uh I don't have anything bad to say about JT he's uh really great I feel like um we have have great conversations together it's not just like a one-way dialogue uh which is what I like so you know if something pops into my head I'll say it in same with him and we kind of just figure out what works best for us in that way and I feel like my game is there he's really helped me stay true um to who I am which is you know wanting to change the Rhythm More and all that stuff so yeah he's been he's been helping me a lot and how did you feel the support of the fans tonight it was great I can never complain about that especially here in Toronto um yeah it just sucks like it it really sucks I wish um yeah um no I'm just gonna finish it's okay I actually haven't cried yet so I guess this is my my little cry s here yeah it sucks like I guess all I can say is like I'm sorry that I didn't get the win for you guys but um yeah all I can say as well on top of that is I appreciate all the support and yeah see you guys in two two years right two years yeah so thank