'I f***ed it up this year': Sorrowful Sabalenka 'wants to get drunk' after Osaka loss

[p]The blockbuster clash between two players with four Grand Slam titles each failed to ‌live up to expectations as 14th seed [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/osaka-naomi/MDM4BKiA/"]Osaka[/a] blazed to a ‌[a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/game/tennis/osaka-n-MDM4BKiA/sabalenka-a-vyhksgUB/?mid=M52M976j"]6-2, 7-6 (2)[/a] victory on Centre Court.[/p][p][a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/sabalenka-aryna/vyhksgUB/"]Sabalenka[/a] was continually knocked off balance by the depth ‌and pace of Osaka's shots and despite digging deep in the ‌second set, she never really looked in control.[/p][p]At one point in the first set she screamed in frustration while early in the second she banged her racket against her head ‌repeatedly. After losing match point, the 28-year-old launched ⁠a ball high out of the ‌court before heading almost immediately to her press conference.[/p][p]One year after losing to [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/anisimova-amanda/nwkutKbi/"]Amanda ​Anisimova[/a] in the semi-final -- her third successive loss at that stage of Wimbledon -- and saying she had a 'hate relationship' with Wimbledon, Sabalenka was ​asked how she felt about her latest exit on the grass.[/p][p]"[b]No emotions. Just know that I can handle myself much better than last year,[/b]" she ⁠told reporters. "[b]Obviously, guys, if you ​were expecting something really fun, not going to happen. Probably just going to be short answers.[/b][/p][p]"[b]I fucked it up this year. Next year I'll try to do better. I just think, to be honest, I feel like my level ‌was really low today, plus she was feeling her best. With every game we would play, I would feel worse, she would feel better.[/b]"[/p][embed guid="f1a5fdda-7d3e-41e6-a5a7-966705f245a9" url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTa8GY5capw" social-type="youtube" /][p]Sabalenka lost the Australian Open final this year and after losing in the quarter-finals at the French Open, where she crumbled in the final set against [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/shnaider-diana/028BdVOj/"]Diana Shnaider[/a], she said she felt like quitting tennis and was in a dark hole.[/p][p]The Belarusian will remain as world number one after Wimbledon, but she said that did not interest her.[/p][p]"[b]Oh, this question, guys. I mean, let's ‌just look at the ranking. Right now I'm world number one. Level-wise, today ​I wasn't world number one. Yesterday I was world number one,[/b]" ‌she said.[/p][p]"[b]I feel like I just don't even want to think about rankings at this point. I just want to go, get completely drunk, forget about tennis, and try to get in better shape.[/b]"[/p][p]It was the first straight sets defeat Sabalenka has suffered in a Grand Slam ⁠for six years.[/p][p]"[b]It's okay. I'll get ⁠back stronger. We'll start building ‌everything from scratch for the next one[/b]," she said.[/p][embed guid="a5260f7c-510f-4e0c-934d-e97e92f08aae" url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJWV7n-Rd2Y" social-type="youtube" /]