Key quotes from the 11th day of the French Open at Roland Garros on Wednesday:
"No thoughts, no emotions. Just want to quit tennis right now, but we'll see. We'll see in few days. Hopefully I'll get back on track mentally."
-- Aryna Sabalenka on her feelings after crashing out of the French Open quarter-finals.
"By the way, you know, I just figure how I can overcome it. You know those rooms where you just go in and you smash everything? Probably I will spend a whole day tomorrow over there destroying stuff. Maybe it will help... maybe not..."
-- Sabalenka on how she might clear her mind after missing out on a semi-final berth.
"I knew that I need to take a break, because otherwise I'm just not able to, like, live, I think. Yeah, I needed to take a break, and I honestly didn't know if I'm gonna come back or not.
"After, like, months, I decided to come back. I needed to kind of figure a few things in my head, I would say. Yeah. And I came back. I'm happy that I did."
-- First-time Grand Slam semi-finalist Maja Chwalinska on taking a break from tennis for her mental health earlier in her career.
"I post something, and then I choose to quit, because I just really want to focus on my game. Like, I want to leave French Open this year without any regrets, you know. I just want to give my all. And I know that it can be, social media can be a bit overwhelming in these kind of situations. So I try to give myself the best chance to play the best tennis that I can."
-- Chwalinska on her social media use in Paris.
"We are very good on and off the court. I feel like even if we play each other in singles, we're super good... We have a good relationship off the court, but if we are playing, both of us wants to win. There is nothing against it. We just want to win."
-- Diana Shnaider on her regular doubles partner Mirra Andreeva, who could be a potential opponent in Sunday's final.
"I am a little bit, but not crazy. But, you know, this week I'm a little bit more crazy than the other. I just go same restaurant, same menu, same shower. Actually, I think I said on the first press that I used the same shower as Rafa (Nadal), because I had memory with that shower that I tried to stall to him, and he knocked to me, and I had to be hurry because he was waiting on me. He told me that it was his shower since 14 years."
-- Flavio Cobolli on being a little bit superstitious.
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