The professional tennis player and coach Pepe Imazwho has been working on an emotional level with the Serbian for ten years Novak Djokovic, has predicted that the player does not have a “withdrawal limit in perspective” and currently It is difficult to predict “how many years he may have left” in active service.
Pepe Imaz Ruíz (Arnedo, La Rioja, 1974) has been in Ceuta this weekend to take part in the “National Master” of the sub-12, sub-14 and junior categories that has been held in the city and to offer a conference on “The emotional state in competition.”
Living in Marbella (Málaga) for twenty-four years, he stated in an interview with EFE that Djokovic has tennis ahead of him because the rope he has left “It is always measured by desire and enthusiasm and physical possibility, and today both are very healthy, That is to say, he has an enormous enthusiasm and desire to continue and physically he is extraordinarily well and on an emotional level he also feels very good.”
In this sense, the man from La Rioja has assessed that he is dealing with “a great human being” who has “had the gift of being able to know and spend a decade at his side on a professional and personal level: andThe process he has done with his life and how he treats himself and others is a reflection of his inner work,” he said.
“I love being close to a person like Novak, he has evolved a lot, he loves to grow, learn and investigate, and he does a great job on a personal level with himself, which is fundamental in sports results because the emotional level helps a lot to do things in a better or worse way and If you are in more harmony everything will last longer”, has said.
Current tennis
When making an assessment of current tennis, he commented that “as a spectacle it is growing, It had been a very classic sport with the doors very closed to innovation and now the doors are opening.”
At a competitive level, he has indicated that the level “has risen a lot, with fifteen years with three historical figures (Nadal, Djokovic and Federer) and that has given a lot of prosperity to world tennis and, within those three, Spain has had one like Nadal who has given so many joys and so many moments of enjoyment, and now another very charismatic figure appears like Alcaraz , who plays at the number one level.
In the women’s section, he pointed out that “Serena Williams “She was dominating for many years and now there is more movement in the ranking, the girls are becoming very professional and the evolution is being very important.”
Pepe Imaz also shares his experience with other tennis players such as Fernando Verdasco, Santiago Giraldo, Flavia Pennetta, Daniela Hantuchova or Marcel Granollers.
“Djokovic is a very well-known person, but what truly fulfills me is doing it myself, with myself, and then sharing with others what has helped me so much, because, At 18 or 19 years old, I had no desire to live”he stated.
On an emotional level, Imaz said that “most tennis players sufferso emotionally there is a long way to go, because playing something you like and do very well is not the same as suffering in something that brings you well-being.”
In relation to whether this situation affects men and women equally, he stated that “The man is more mental and the woman is more emotional, Therefore, in women, as a general rule, emotional pain is more aggressive.”
In his opinion, this situation influences the results on the slopes “because when you are calm, whatever you do, you do it better than when you are nervous, tense or distressedhence when you accept the error you are calmer and more harmonious, so you are more able to do what you do at your optimal level.”
He doesn’t like to recommend anything, but he does point out that “treating with more respect and more affectionaccepting our shortcomings more instead of hiding them is something that contributes to any human being.
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life experience
Pepe Imaz, who at the age of ten went to Barcelona – first with Andrés Gimeno and then with Luis Bruguera – has stressed that “children cannot be confused with the titles they have or do not have, that is, they cannot be assessed by how they do things, but that they are aware that for “The simple fact of existing is the most valuable thing there is.”
Despite being among the 400 best in the world at 18 years oldthe Riojan left tennis at the age of 23 after overcoming some bad times, including bulimia.
“I was a tennis player with dreams, sometimes you forget about yourself and yourself to focus on what you achieve and that’s where the fears begin and, as a result of the fears, stress, anguish, anxiety comes, having frustrations, crying, feeling undervalued and all that does a lot of damage to the child, the adolescent and the adult,” he said.
This is how the project was launched.Love and peace” in Marbella, to teach children from the perspectives of sport and being, sharing this school with Marko Djokovic: “there are boys and professional players, as well as children who want to be, with whom we share our journey,” he indicated.
He has commented that instilling values is “always unnatural, the thing is to share it and whoever feels good or likes it can take it.
“The tennis school is the second thing because, above all, we try to share with them because the priority is the human being. They can give someone the most valuable diamond in the world, but, When it comes to choosing between life and the diamond, I think one hundred percent we would say life, so we shouldn’t judge ourselves so much,” he commented.
2023-10-30 17:25:41
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