World number two Victoria Azarenka admitted that she’s feeling burnt out which can be attributed to her early losses in tournaments after the US Open. The Belarussian reached the final in New York for the second straight year and lost both times to Serena Williams. Azarenka is participating this week at the elite WTA Tour Championships in Istanbul, Turkey.
“I think it’s pretty obvious,” Azarenka said after losing to Jelena Jankovic of Serbia on Wednesday. “It’s just the bad road, and I have to go through that, because it didn’t happen to me in a long, long time. It’s been a long year. It’s been a tough year. It’s been tough two years, so that consistency I have been playing with, it’s sometimes difficult to keep all the time. Everybody goes through tough moments in his or her career, and the important thing is how you come out of it. I just need to battle right now as much as I can.”
The Belarussian said it’s tough to be at one’s best all the time.
“Definitely it’s tough, in the end of the year to play against the best players, because every match you have to go and dig deep, and sometimes your motivation is not there enough to know the capacity, how deep can you dig,” she said. “It’s tough for everybody I’m not going to sit here and say that I feel perfectly, but you play back-to-back matches. It’s a little bit tiring, and all the things put together, it makes your body tired. Just mentally tough right now, tough to get things started a little bit.”
Azarenka will be playing her third match this week against Li Na on Friday.
