When I'm at the physio I'm not checking my phone. Now I'm watching movies, I go with my mom to get a coffee, I talk to Silvia about other things. "In another time, I would be watching tennis all day. "When I finish the day, I finish," she said. And with that attitude, she's equaled her best performance at a Slam to date. In that vein, Sorribes Tormo isn't letting tennis dominate her life anymore. "When they mix, I think these two Saras are very good. "Tennis Sara is saying, 'OK, but I'm going to compete.' "They are trying to be one because the normal Sara is trying to tell Sara the tennis player, 'Stay here, stay in the moment, life has more things, just work and enjoy, stay with your team, listen and have fun.' So how will Sorribes Tormo manage the new Sara and the old Sara? Being healthy would be my biggest trophy for sure." "Being healthy this year is the only thing I can ask for. I feel like I need to stay on the court and be a bit more brave and not just go and play. "And then one day, you have the thing you need inside. "OK, 1.5 hours of fitness and we go to the court for 20 minutes and that's good. Just two years ago in Guadalajara, she won her first career title and powered her way to a career-high ranking of No.32 in February of 2022. Tracing Kayla Day’s path to a milestone moment at the French Openīut can a healthier, more content version of Sorribes Tormo still compete as though every point is life or death? Does she return with the competitive fire that drove her to grind down player after player in protracted duels? Could she even rediscover it?.By the Numbers: Swiatek eases into French Open third round.Takeaways: Jabeur downs Dodin in second round at Roland Garros.Mirra Andreeva, Gauff roll to meet in Roland Garros third round.Swiatek celebrates birthday with Taylor Swift: 'I'm feeling 22!'.The thing that moves me is that my family is OK, my friends are OK, and I can have fun with them." "Sara is a very normal person that loves family, loved ones, who likes to have fun, who likes to talk about life, who likes to smile," she said. The fiery competitor who ate, drank and slept tennis learned she could breathe without it. But when you're playing the Australian Open and you lose you think the world stops. Nobody knows that the Australian Open is going. "People are playing in Australia but people are still working on the streets in Madrid. "It was nice to know there is life outside tennis," she said. She began to confront the existential question that most tennis players work desperately to avoid: Who am I without tennis? "What was hard was to think I don't know if I need tennis to be happy. She found that she loved going to concerts, watching her brother's football practices and sitting in the passenger seat on aimless drives. Instead of spending hours watching tennis, Sorribes Tormo, who Saturday advanced to the fourth round of the French Open when Elena Rybakina withdrew, reveled in her time with friends and family. "But I was interested in other things."įrench Open: Scores | Order of play | Draw "That was very difficult because I really love what I do," she said. A tennis obsessive, all of a sudden Sorribes Tormo couldn't bring herself to keep up with the sport. She was on crutches and a walking boot for three months. That pain turned out to be a fracture of the scaphoid bone in her foot. Why Sara Sorribes Tormo might be the toughest out in tennis "So it was totally broken when I got the MRI." "I continued to keep playing a few months," Sorribes Tormo said.
When she returned in the summer, she began to feel pain in her left foot in Cincinnati.
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She cracked her rib in a match against Nuria Parrizas Diaz in Rome last year, which ruled her out of Roland Garros. She was also involved in two of the top five lengthiest matches last year. Two years ago, the 26-year-old from Valencia was featured in three of the 10 longest matches of the year. PARIS - Sara Sorribes Tormo has carved out a reputation as a tenacious marathon player.
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