“What I experienced these last two weeks were all positive things. Now I want to continue consolidating with my work team, improve physically and return to the level I had at some point, I feel that I have tennis and the conditions to be there among the best 50 to no so long term”expressed the “Little” in an interview that he gave to Télam.
podoroska With just turned 26, she is ranked 113th in the WTA world ranking, far from the 36th place that she occupied back in July 2021, nine months after her historic performance that took her to the Roland Garros semifinals, when she astonished to the world of tennis and was captured by the radar of the best on the planet.
A series of injuries, the most important in the hip, delayed his growth, he declined in the ranking and he only celebrated again when he won the title in Cali on February 5, after winning the final over Santa Fe. Paula Ormaecheathen he starred in another good week in Mexico with his access to the semifinals.
“Little by little I’m feeling better, having better sensations. The most important thing is the string of games I put in in Cali and Mexico. I went from brick dust to cement, a change of surface is always dangerous for the physical, but I didn’t have inconveniences and that gave me the pattern that I’m fine, that I left my injuries behind”added the “Little”.
The tennis player born in Rosario on February 10, 1997, spoke with Télam via Zoom from the Mexican city of Irapuato, recently arrived from training, since she will compete for the third consecutive week with the premise of maintaining positive results.
“Last year I had one or two good games, now I scored several in a row, that gives me a lot of confidence despite the fact that I still need to get to where I was. Winning a title positions you in a different way for the tournaments to come, just the same my vision is long-term”Podoroska added.
The tennis player, whose immediate objective is to return to the “top 100” to ensure her direct entry to Roland Garros without having to go through the “Qualy”, acknowledged that she is very confident for the upcoming tournaments and that as last year she began to compete after Wimbledon (in July) will add a lot in the rankings because he has no points to defend in the next five months.
“With these results, the equation changes a bit, what I had planned. I started with a new work team in January and things are going well very quickly. I want to be in the top 100 to enter the Grand Slam straight, I think I have many things to improve to be higher up and compete with the higher-level players, such as improving my physique, strength and serve”Podoroska analyzed.
“My shots, the impacts, are exactly the same as last year, but the main difference that I notice is that I was able to be consistent throughout the whole week, and that I was able to stay focused for a long time and several days in a row, before I It was difficult to be mentally focused during a whole game, the next day and the next as well”recognized the “Little”.
Podoroska generated a true revolution in the world of tennis when she entered the main draw at Roland Garros in October 2020 after going through the classification, and won five matches in a row, until she was stopped in the “semis” by the Polish Iga Swiatek, current number one in the world.
“I think that what I experienced at Roland Garros, all that huge leap, I don’t know if I will experience something similar again in terms of what it meant. Now I feel much more prepared than at that time, with much more filming and experience”recalled the Rosario.
The number one female tennis player in Argentina appreciated that performance of hers in Paris and praised swiatek, who he considers will reign for a long time, in fact after that title he won Roland Garros again in 2022 and also won the US Open, also last year.
“I do feel far from Iga’s level. Above all, the most difficult thing to achieve to be where she is is consistency. I have no doubt that I can play like this for one or two days at that level, but the consistency she has I don’t have it for now. However, I do think I’m at the level of a 50 in the world.”he stressed.
Rosario finally referred to her participation in the Bilie Jean King Cup (ex Fed Cup) with the jersey of the Argentine national team, who will have to play again in the American Zone next April.
“I’m still in contact with the captain (Mercedes Paz from Tucumán), my idea is, whenever I can represent Argentina, to do it, so I’ll be part of the team. There may be different factors at that time, but my idea is to play.”Podoroska concluded.
Rosario will continue her journey starting this Wednesday at the ITF W60 in Irapuato, on a fast surface, where she will debut against the Mexican Renata Zarazúa.
Source: Ambito
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