For Swiatek, 25, a fourth-round exit is a disappointing finish to her Grand Slam season, with a quarter-final look on the Australian Open her greatest end result.
She was crushed in spherical 4 of the French Open, whereas the defence of her Wimbledon title ended within the third spherical.
It signifies that, for the primary time since 2021, Swiatek will finish a 12 months with out successful one of many sport’s 4 majors.
Swiatek, who obtained therapy to her left thigh when main 2-1 within the second set, had entered the US Open in wonderful type by successful the WTA 1000 occasion in Toronto and attending to the semi-finals in Cincinnati, whereas she had progressed via to spherical 4 with out dropping a set.
Reflecting on shedding the primary set to Zheng, Swiatek mentioned she merely missed too many photographs after going 5-0 up.
“My focus was the identical as all the time,” mentioned the six-time main winner. “I wished to play the identical as all the time. [I] simply began to overlook an excessive amount of, wished to regulate it, however nothing form of labored at that time.
“I knew I used to be going to have one other probability and I wished to make use of it, however I missed all of them.”
She continued: “I would not say it had something to do with mentality. It was extra that I began making errors from straightforward balls and Qinwen stopped doing errors. She performed the balls higher.”
