Victoria Azarenka refused to be negative or pessimistic following her Australian Open semifinal defeat to Aryna Sabalenka as she described it as “just a day that my game didn’t win.” Azarenka, 33, was just one win away from reaching her first Australian Open final since 2013 before Rybakina handed her a 7-6 (4) 6-3 defeat.
“Time always is a good medicine I feel. I don’t really dwell too long on things. I feel like I’m in the state of mind where I can be a little bit more objective. I think what helps me now is not to take it, I did something bad or I’m this or that.
I don’t take it as personal. It’s just a day that my game didn’t win,” Azarenka said, per the Australian Open website.
Azarenka after the Rybakina defeat: I didn’t convert my chances
“Right now, especially, it’s kind of hard to digest.
Obviously I had quite a few chances that I gave myself. Kind of not converting them right now is difficult. [I] cannot really say I’m really proud of how I played. I’m proud of myself how I fought and I tried, but just was not, tennis-wise, I felt like just wasn’t there, especially in the important moments when I kept creating those opportunities for me.
Just couldn’t convert them,” Azarenka reflected. Azarenka earned the first break of the match in the fifth game but then…
