Guido Pella’s life took a 180° turn in recent months. Without playing since October 2021, his priorities changed when he found out, in January of this year, that he would become Arianna’s father along with Stephanie Demner, her partner.
With the model and influencer, the 32-year-old from Bahiense was going to get married in September 2020, although the pandemic prevented it. Coronavirus, truncated marriage, news of pregnancy, problems in one of his knees. Too many things together in such a short time made the tennis player decide to stop the ball and think. And so he tells it in an interview.
“This time away from tennis I am living it well. It is the first moment in which I have not played for so long, beyond what happened in the pandemic. The knee had been complicated for a long time, especially since the end of 2021”, revealed Pella, at the beginning of the note.
And he went even further: “The pain was very recurrent, it didn’t let me play well. My game is about counter attacking, defending and it was getting difficult for me. They are slow treatments. When I try to play a little and push myself, it hurts. Out there not so much for normal life but for tennis. I had to stop to at least try to extend my career”.
“My idea was to try to stop last year and start well in 2022 with the tournaments in Australia, but the first few weeks I did not adapt well to the treatment, my knee swelled, I was still in a lot of pain. The following month I found out that I was going to be a father and the plans changed”, understood the player who emerged from the Liniers club.
Finally, he admitted that “I had to try to be with my partner as much time as possible, dedicate another place to him. I’m at a point where I have to stop a little bit, my brain asked me for that and I’m trying to listen to it for the first time in my life.
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