Máximo González: “I don’t think about retirement yet”

Despite having recently turned 39, Maximo Gonzalez He wants to continue on the tennis circuit. What’s more, he still doesn’t think about hanging up his racket and sets goals for the future, according to what he told Registered Marketingwhere in addition, He made an analysis of his season, the elimination in the Davis Cup and more.

“Next year I’m sure going to play it and maybe one more year. One of my goals that I set for myself is to try to be in the 2024 Parín Olympics, there I have the objective. I don’t think about retirement yet, I feel good, I’m looking forward to it.”assured the tennis player.

Still, the Argentine has some competitions ahead of him before taking a break to prepare for 2023: “I have three more tournaments left, I travel next week, Thursday or Friday, I go to Spain to Gijón where a 250 is played. Then to Antwerb, Belgium, another 250 and I end up in Vienna, a 500. Those would be the last three weeks. She had hoped to be in the finals of Malaga in Davis, which was to finish the year well. But it didn’t happen and I have these last three tournaments left.”

Precisely, González recalled the elimination of Argentina: “We had dinner together on the last day, we didn’t talk much and the next day everyone went their own way. I went to France to play, Diego to the Laver Cup in London, part of the team came back, another stayed a few days on vacation for Italy. Talking was not talked about, but we were all surprised too. The Swedes played the three games very well on the first day, which was the game we were going to win for sure, and either start off on the wrong foot or with an adverse result , the week was uphill for us because afterwards we couldn’t lose any more and we lost to Italy. And we still had a chance to beat Croatia and qualify, but we couldn’t play at the level we’re used to on the tour.”

“We are Argentina, in single we have Diego, Fran, Seba, Top 30 all three, Zeballos is in doubles, I have experience. We went with a strong team and not being able to get the result left us sad. The truth that hurtsregretted not having qualified for the final.

“Machi” also chose the Davis Cup format that he likes: “I like the previous one better because you lose that of local and visitor. The series we played in Italy was held at four venues, Spain, Germany and Scotland. We had to play with the Italians who were the three local games and then we had to play with the Swedes who had no one on the pitch. In Germany no one went either. Playing the Davis is that, home and away. When you go as a visitor you realize that the field is full for the other team and when you play at home you have a full field for yourself. That’s what was lost with this format.”

Finally, he left a balance of his season: “It was a difficult year, it wasn’t good tennis, but I’m always looking forward to it beyond age, I feel playing well Davis helped me a lot because I felt playing very well at a high level”.