Svitolina Turns Focus To Saving Energy With Rain Forecasted In Montreal

| by Balasz Virag

The first day of the Canadian Open heavily featured rain, and Elina Svitolina has a plan of how to deal with that.

The Ukranian has been a long-time player, one that has experienced rain-infested WTA events in the past. It's a tough thing to navigate due to the uncertainty of the schedule. Your match can get moved to another court, it might start and stop more than once, and keeping focus through all of that can be challenging.

She was asked about her ways of dealing with the uncertainty and like with so many things in tennis - it's all about adjusting. It's a sport of constant adjusting, and you either get used to it and manage or you get crushed by it.

Well, to be fair, you want to play the match, but you have to adjust. You cannot control the weather. You cannot -- I have no say on that, so you just have to adjust, regroup, and be ready for anything that comes your way.

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They are not easy, these days when you have to warm up multiple times, you have to eat, and sometime, you know, you have to be on court really quick. So just for me I knew there was rain, so I tried to practice early in the morning to be done, and then we'll see how the forecast will be. Tomorrow looks also not good, so I guess there will be no match tomorrow too.

The prognosis for the second day doesn't look too good either, and for Svitolina, it will be just about conserving energy. There are no guarantees that she will avoid playing two matches on a day, so the theme will be conserving energy, especially when the draw gave you Danielle Collins as a qualifier in the first round.

Yes. You have to adjust, and I think the best way is just try to save energy. Try to not do too much because knowing you might be playing the second match, but you know, when you go for the first match, you don't think so much about the second match.

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