2024 Olympics: Danielle Collins Has Tense Interplay With Iga Swiatek

And the duo’s match wasn’t simply tense off the court docket, as throughout the competitors a powerful backhand from Collins hit Swiatek within the abdomen, inflicting the 23-year-old—who’s presently the top-seeded lady on the Olympic Video games—to clutch her midsection and fall to the ground earlier than shortly recovering.

“I could not breathe for a while,” Swiatek defined to reporters concerning the hit. “I suppose with the adrenaline that you’ve on court docket, you do not really feel these form of issues too exhausting. So I might get again within the recreation actually shortly.”

As for Collins, her determination to finish the sport was as a result of damage in her belly muscle groups, saying that the warmth in Paris has “been brutal.”

“When you will have full-body cramps out of your toes to your neck and also you endure a warmth stroke,” she stated, “it’s extremely, very tough to return out right here.”