Timea Bacsinszky, who reached the final of Beijing, is now at her career-high ranking of No. 10. She says that after Wimbledon, she stumbled because she wasn't resting enough.
The 26-year-old played a lot of matches from January through June, competing in 10 tournaments and two Fed Cup ties. She reached the final in Shenzhen in January, won titles in Acapulco and Monterrey, and beat Agnieszka and Urszula Radwanska in Fed Cup action in Poland. Then the Swiss reached the semifinals of the French Open, where she lost to Serena Williams in three sets. At Wimbledon, Bacsinszky reached the quarterfinals, losing to Garbine Muguruza.
But then her results took a turn downward during the hard-court season when she lost four straight matches in Toronto, Cincinnati, New Haven and the U.S. Open.
"Maybe I wasn't ready to fly so early in the U.S., even if I took some weeks home to practice," Bacsinszky said. "Maybe I needed one more week. But it's something that I've maybe learned from this summer. Like, let's say compared to my beginning of the season, for sure, four first rounds in a row was not super, but it has also some positive things. It makes you maybe communicate more with your team. It makes you try to find solutions. It helped me for a lot of things.
"I always planned to play Seoul, got a wild card there, then Wuhan, then I withdraw from both because I wasn't feeling ready. My head was still like going everywhere. I wasn't like completely Zen. You [make] some decisions."