The final count was, 3-6, 6-1, 6-4, and surely the lessons will endure.
Iga Swiatek may have dropped a tough three-setter to Simona Halep in Melbourne, but the right kind of headstrong execution she displayed in Paris last year to capture her first major, that's here to stay.
That's a tribute to her sports psychologist, Daria Abramowicz, who joined the teen phenom's camp to become the Polish No. 1's mental health lead. It's what saw Swiatek deliver a straight-sets blitz of Halep at Roland Garros in October 2020, at the same fourth-round mark.