Day to review all the stars who have attended the Indian Wells 2024 Media Day, where Aryna Sabalenka could not be missing. The Belarusian left a couple of comments in the room about the calendar, including some family anecdotes that made the journalists smile.
We are facing a tighter season than normal due to the Paris Olympic Games, a topic that is beginning to be recurring in the tennis players’ press conferences. In Indian Wells 2024 No one has been spared this issue, although not everyone faced it with the same honesty. Aryna Sabalenka He did dare to evaluate this dance of surfaces and how it can affect them physically, although he also gave a broad smile talking about his great moment and remembering a private conversation with his mother about his latest titles in Australia. Once again, the Belarusian makes herself loved with her naturalness.
Focused on Indian Wells
“I am happy to be back here, I have great memories of this place, right now I only think about starting this tournament in the best possible way, even better than what I did last year. I don’t like to focus too much on my goals, on everything I can achieve in the long term, I prefer to focus on the closest thing I have, move step by step and stay with the basics. Right now my intention is to be ready for the next game, nothing more.”
Around the surfaces
“The truth is that right now there is no longer any surface that keeps a big secret for me, there have been many years competing and improving in each of them, I know perfectly what I should do in all of them, how to prepare my body. It’s all based on carrying out that preparation with enough time, managing well those training blocks prior to each tour, taking your time and not rushing, especially when the dirt tour or the grass tour arrives. Personally, many times it helped me to skip a tournament to make sure I reached 100% at the next one, then all you have to do is get on the court and fight.”
The Olympics disrupt the calendar
“It’s an interesting situation this season, with a very tight schedule, it’s like all the tournaments were glued to each other, everything super tight, it’s crazy to see how we’re going to go from clay, then to grass, then back to earth… I don’t know to what extent this is positive for the body. “I am super happy to compete in another Olympic Games, I just hope to arrive at the event mentally and physically prepared, I really want to compete there.”
Anecdote with his two Australian Opens
“My mother has the two trophies together, one next to the other, she says they are twins (laughs). She now tells me that I have to win other different Grand Slams, that having only these two is very boring, so she encourages me to continue winning but in other places. She could appreciate how much it cost me to win these two, but she prefers to ask me to win others, as if it were easy (laughs).”
Delighted with her work team
“This is how we are, there is no secret or any mask, we don’t act. We face each tournament with the hope of having a good time, of having fun together, that is our philosophy, what has led us to connect and work so well together. We had a great time as a team, there is a brutal connection, I think you can all see it naturally. For me it is a very important part of this entire journey, having the ability to express myself with the people around me, being able to set very ambitious goals but without ceasing to enjoy the process. There is a lot of pressure on a daily basis, many hours thinking about tennis, so this type of relationship we have helps me handle everything much better. Everything good that has happened to me is thanks to these people.”
2024-03-07 23:57:04
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