After Stunning Upset: 'I Want to Quit Tennis'

The world's top-ranked women's player sounds fed up with her sport after an upset loss to the No. 25 seed at the French Open. "No thoughts, no emotions. I want to quit tennis right now," said 28-year-old Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus, reports People. "We'll see in a few days if I'm back on track mentally." Sabalenka let a quarterfinal lead slip into a 3-6, 7-5, 6-0 loss to Diana Shnaider of Russia on Wednesday. She said she fell into "a very deep, deep dark hole" mentally during the match and "screwed up," while crediting the 22-year-old Russian for raising her game.

"I think it's a combination of everything," she said. "You overthink, then you make easy mistakes, then you miss opportunities—and on the other side she's stepping in and starting to play more aggressively, more free, kind of fearless." Sabalenka also noted it was "crazy windy," and the Athletic points out that she lost last year in the French Open finals in similar conditions. "Wind is becoming as big an issue for Sabalenka as extreme heat is for the men's world No. 1 Jannik Sinner," writes Charlie Eccleshare.