The Spanish Carolina Marin admitted this Wednesday that she is not in her personal best moment, although she stressed that she looks “forward” with the challenge of becoming the best in history, setting second place in the Denmark Open as a starting point to continue working after seven months without competing for the pandemic.
The Huelva, three-time world champion and four-time champion of Europe, once again raised the bar for its demand within the framework of the Santander Talks celebrated this Wednesday in Madrid. He confessed that “he missed that feeling of competition” and assured that he knew “little” the silver medal, given his defeat in the final against the Japanese Nozomi Okuhara.
The leader of the annual ranking wishes, in any case, to give continuity to the competition and that is why she plans to participate next week in a minor category tournament in Germany to “improve those things that have failed in the last tournament.”
“From these months without competing I get a lot of learning readings. I have improved many phases of the game, although perhaps I have not finished applying them in the competition in Denmark. That risk that we always take I have not completely applied, that’s why I’m going going to compete in Germany. I want to see how the things we are training are working out, “he explained.
Carolina Marín tries to save a point
Carolina Marín also assumed that she is not in her best personal moment, due to the recent death of her father. “Psychologically I am not at one hundred percent,” he commented, “but despite everything I have been through in the last year I try to be the best I can.
“The mental aspect is something that I need to continue improving. I have time until the summer of next year, which is when I have set the great goal of the Olympic Games, to continue improving. That confidence in the game is what I have lacked and what I need to build on this path. The psychological part is normally one of my strong points, but now I lack that confidence. I lack the roll “, he valued.
The ambition to be the best in history, he said, remains intact.
“I admit that personally I am not in my best moment and that many days that motivation that I have to be the best in history sometimes lacks me. But I always try to look forward. I have to be realistic and tough. The final did not go well. Okuhara did almost nothing in the game. He passed the wheel. I made the mistakes and the winners. The game was based on me, “he said by way of self-criticism.
That is why in the three tournaments scheduled for the month of January in Thailand, including the Finals of the world circuit, whose annual ranking leads, Carolina Marín hopes to show her best version.
“The way I lost on Sunday does not make me afraid for the next game. In fact, I wish I had another game against Okuhara next week,” he added.
The Tokyo Games
The Huelva woman would sign a final at the Tokyo Olympic Games against the Japanese, whom she sees as a candidate for the medals along with the Japanese Akane Yamaguchi. “I think the Japanese will be very strong at the Tokyo Games,” he said.
He is not afraid that they will seek the rectification, that gesture with which he broke the anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee, perhaps his “weakest point on the entire playing court.” “I have him very well trained,” stressed Carolina Marín.
Spanish badminton
Asked about the future of Spanish badminton, the Andalusian wished that someone who achieves their achievements and even surpasses them arrives.
“I know it is difficult, but there is no secret behind all this. It is all work, sacrifice and giving up a lot of things. Maybe many players stay because they do not quit, because they see it very sacrificed or because the work is not well done “, he analyzed.
Yes, she was confident in the work she can do Andoni Azurmendi as the new president of the Spanish federation.
“With him many changes are going to be made that are necessary for Spanish badminton. The federation knows that it can count on me,” he said.
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