The world of elite sports entails great sacrifices for those who want to reach the top. Endless work sessions, physical and mental demands, pain tolerance… all in order to reach the top. And when you get to the top, what? Many times the demands that come with being in that position are unbearable for athletes who enter a negative dynamic and are never the same again.
It is the case of Dinara Safina. The Russian tennis player was one of the great protagonists of the women’s circuit during the end of the first decade of the 21st century. Between 2008 and 2009 he reached three Grand Slam finals (twice at Roland Garros and once at the US Open), in addition to being a semi-finalist at Wimbledon in 2009. A year in which Safina became number 1 in the world for 25 weeks (from April 20 to October 11 of that year) when everything seemed to come in his face.
However, in 2010 everything began to go wrong for Marat Safin’s sister. Bad results and injuries began to accompany the tennis playerwho disputed his last match as a professional at the 2011 Madrid Open. He was barely 25 years old and at that time he was not aware that he had just held the racket for the last time as a professional. Why didn’t he come back?
The Russian tennis player, who continues working in the world of racket as a liaison with the ATP and the WTA in the Saint Petersburg tournament, has given an interview to Tennis.com and has revealed what was the reason why she did not return to the courts . “What kept me from coming back all those years was that I physically had to fight my body weight. I was struggling with anxiety and an eating disorder that led me to binge eating. I was constantly overweightbut I was never able to lose it even though I fought hard to do so.”
“I tried different diets and nothing worked and playing with 30 extra kilos is not easy”
Dinara Safina
Safina admits that she tried everything in her power to fight against this disorder, but that in the end she could not overcome it. “I tried different diets and nothing worked and playing with 30 extra kilos is not easy. For me, this was one of the main reasons why I never tried to go back. Physically I wasn’t like that, but people kept commenting that I had gained weight and other worse things.”
The Moscow tennis player went through numerous back problems in 2009 and despite returning to the courts, she did so with overweight problems, which finally caused her to hang up her racket. “I want people to understand that this can happen to anyone, Everyone has their own problems and fears, it is normal for this to happen. Many people have been through the same thing, but there is always light at the end of the tunnel.”Safina confesses more than 10 years after playing her last game as a professional.
Passionate about basketball since he was a child, Guillermo García has managed to make the sport of basketball his profession. Graduated in Humanities from the Carlos III University and with a Master’s degree in Journalism, he began working at Marca in 2003, where he had time to do everything from football to reports and opinion, including the closing section. In 2011 he began as an editor on the official NBA website in Spanish and since then he has covered basketball information with special attention to what is happening in the United States. In addition, he has covered two Eurobasket, two World Cups and two Olympic Games, along with a multitude ACB playoffs, NBA and Euroleague Final Four games. He has also been able to interview figures from other sports such as Usain Bolt, Simone Biles or Armand Duplantis. …
2024-02-04 09:47:56
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