In an interview with Sportske, Donna Vekic spoke about her future goals and analyzed them in 2021. She also spoke about the future of ATP tennis after the era of Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic.
She said: “It was an extremely difficult path, a lot of things happened: first the injury and then the operation. The recovery was really long and exhausting, but in the end I ended the season with a success.
I’m looking forward to 2022, I want to be ready and healthy to play tennis again without pain. Title in Courmayeur? It was proof that not all sacrifices were in vain. It showed me that training and work are still worthwhile.
This victory was certainly an additional motivation for me to think positively about everything that is to come. My new trainer Luka Kutanjac? Luka gave the team a new atmosphere, a positive attitude that helped me a lot from the start.
I’ll keep working with him in 2022, I still think I have a lot of room for improvement so I hope he can help me grow. ”
Vekic: “When the Big 3 retire, there will be no Dominator”
Donna then compares the ATP tennis according to Federer, Djokovic and Nadal with the current WTA Tour moment without a real leader: “My goals are to return to the top 20 in the world and to play many matches in Grand Slam tournaments to win.
In women’s tennis, all matches are very tough, there are no longer any easy preliminary rounds. They all play tennis very well; That is why it is so difficult to find a real dominatrix. I think that will happen very soon in men’s tennis as soon as Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal stop playing. “
Donna Vekic faced some physical issues in 2021. After reaching the round of 16 at the Australian Open, the Croatian tennis player had an operation on her right knee. At the end of a long rehab process, Vekic came back to the Roland Garros at the beginning of June.
The player, born in 1996, found it difficult to recover from a physical point of view, but in the last tournament of the season she won her third WTA title of her career in Courmayeur with a victory over Clara Tauson in the final.
