Sebastian Korda is signing a season finale that once again gives hope to the world of tennis. He began the year as the clear revelation of 2023, but a wrist injury stopped his progress in its tracks and forced him to stop for several months. His return to his highest level was incredibly complicated..
One look at the cleanliness and fluidity of your tennis and many people will see that in Sebastian Korda There is raw material to think big. His evolution and growth on the ATP circuit always took place with slow but firm steps, simmering his maturity on the court, tempering some impulses of hyper-aggressive tennis that were attributed to his youth. When it seemed that all the pieces of the puzzle were clicking, when his results began to speak more than his potential and his background As the son of a great tennis player, the number one enemy of tennis players arrived: the lesions. Specifically, one in doll which made him start over from scratch. To his 23 yearsKorda has needed a long time to feel the ball again like in that great Australian Open… but the ATP Shanghai 2023 It is being confirmed as his particular resurrection.
After defeating Ben Shelton and add your third semi-final in four tournaments (Winston-Salem, Astana and now Shanghai), Petr Korda’s son had no problem speaking frankly, in Press conference, about what that injury meant for him. Not only were the three months without stepping on a tennis court problematic; also the following months of readaptation at the competitive pace. “My injury actually started at the end of last year, probably around this time. I was struggling with my wrist, in some stretches it seemed fine, but then it got worse and worse, especially during the stretch. training prior to the Australian Open.
I played in Adelaide, it was good. When I started playing best-of-five-set matches, many matches against big servers who were mainly looking for my forehand, it started to hurt a lot. Since then it has been a very long and arduous road. I was gone for three months: basically I had to relearn everything I did before, especially at the wrist level. Every practice, every time he hit a forehand, I practically prayed that my wrist wouldn’t hurt anymore… and it didn’t stop hurting. To this day I still have some problems occasionally. As you can see with the forehand that I failed in the tiebreak, I still don’t have all the repetitions that I would like with the forehand, with the rest of the forehand, with the forehand volley. “It’s something that will come back as I play more games, more training sessions, and I hope it gets back to normal soon.”stated the American.
It is difficult to say that there is only one key to turning this situation around. For Korda, yes, the patience and continuing to believe in himself were essential in order to obtain results like the one in Shanghai again. “I missed three months of the circuit, but I would also tell you that I missed another four months while I adapted to everything again, while learning again how everything was done. This year I have lost a lot of time due to the injury, it was horrible, yes, but right now I trust myself again, to play at a high level of tennis again, and I trust that the results will be with me again.”
FAMILY PRESSURE, NON-EXISTENT
Today, the figure of Peter Korda, his father and a Grand Slam winner, remains a vital part of Seb’s entourage. The advantages, according to the American, clearly outweigh the disadvantages of having a father figure like him: “One of the best things that having a father like him gives you is that he helps you understand how to behave in certain moments. They have taught me to always believe in myself, to go for it, no matter what situation. Pressure? None. At the end of the day, we all do what we love. I love playing tennis, I love this sport, if I’m not playing I spend all day watching tennis, and the same thing happens with my sisters (they are both golf players), “They’re doing what they love. I don’t think there’s any pressure, although obviously I’d love to surpass my dad.” “My biggest goal in this sport is to win two Grand Slams, one more than my father.”
2023-10-12 16:40:24
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