Sabalenka Collapse, Men's SF Previews (Zverev-Mensik, Cobolli-Arnaldi) | Roland Garros 2026

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**Gill Gross** (2:14)
Hey everyone, Gill Gross here, and it is time for the Roland Garros 2026 quarterfinal show. We'll talk about today's results on this Wednesday. Look ahead to the last four. On the men's side, it will be Zverev taking on Jakub Mensik, and it will be an all Italian semifinal, Flavio Cobolli versus Matteo Arnaldi. Both of them victorious today. But I do want to start, I'm compelled, to start with what will be the most talked about story from today, which is the collapse of Aryna Sabalenka from up a set in 4-1 after serving for the match and a spot in the semifinals. She loses 10 straight games, drops the second set 7-5, loses the third set 6-0, love against Diana Schneider, a player whose ball striking is absolutely sweet. I think at face value, Schneider in a major semifinal, not surprising. She's awesome, and I've never seen her move her feet so well.
Like she did down the stretch of this match, in very windy conditions where footwork ends up being at a huge premium. I thought Schneider's ability to get in position to play, to hit the ball was outstanding. But for Sabalenka, let me start with what she said after the match. She said, Mentally, I couldn't recover from the second set. I don't know when was the last time that I lost 10 games in a row. Mentally, I entered a very deep hole. Now, obviously, the second set is a tough pill to swallow, a hard way to lose a set.
And it's not easy to get over that, I don't think, for anybody. And what happened to Sabalenka is certainly human.
But then you have to think, well, what standard are we holding Aryna Sabalenka to? Are we holding her to the standard of any other player, any other human, who might have difficulty turning the page after blowing a chance to win the match? Or are we holding her to the standard of somebody with the ability to be an all-time great, the best player, the world number one, for the last two plus years?
And if it's the latter, and I think it's the latter, I think it's fair to say that the inability to get over the second set and reset at the start of the third, and to get her head in a place where she could play somewhere near her best for the third set and compete as she normally would, is a pretty alarming failure.
You got to have a short memory. You got to be resilient. I'm not coming on here and saying it's easy, but I am going to come on here and say that there are other great champions who would have been able to get that done. And I'm definitely going to say that if it weren't a major, if it weren't a slam, I don't think Aryna Sabalenka has any issues resetting at the start of the third. I think it's the added emotion. I think it's the added pressure. I think it's the built up scar tissue for somebody who has time and time again, put themselves in the mix. Now, usually it's been semifinals and finals where Sabalenka has had some issues mentally. But this is someone who puts herself in the mix basically four times a year for the last three years. And for her ability level, she has not converted as many of those runs into titles as she would like. She has not been as efficient converting deep runs into titles compared to the other events on the WTA Tour. And by the way, they're all best of three, so you don't even have a format change. It's been abundantly clear, and there is massively conclusive statistical evidence at this point that for Aryna Sabalenka, it's the added pressure of slams that is more often than not the very thing that's taking her down. All right.