Zheng Qinwen mentioned the shoe-change incident is one of the reasons for her loss: "I first noticed it in the first set, but I didn’t realize the shoes had already started coming apart. I played through the set, but by the time I went to change them, they had separated so much that I could no longer move properly. I had no choice but to switch to the pair I wore in the last match, which had caused me to slip multiple times. Unfortunately, neither pair was really suitable for me today. It’s a shame—perhaps I wasn’t fully prepared for this grass-court tournament. "