From Roland Garros heroine to hitting rock bottom at the US Open
“I tried hard against depression. I thought it was a matter of resisting, of being strong, but there came a time when I couldn’t take it anymore. I couldn’t get out of bed, I was lifeless. I needed a break, because otherwise I wouldn’t be able to live.” And he chose to hang up his racket in 2021, without knowing if it was a provisional decision or not.
It was, “I surely needed to clear my head,” he noted at Roland Garros, where his life changed. “I’m glad to be back,” said this pearl of the youth team along with his now illustrious compatriot. Iga Swiatekwith whom she was European under-14 champion, junior doubles champion, junior finalists of the Australian Open in 2017.
Changing clothes every day, without a fixed uniform due to not having sponsors. On the verge of having to take out a new loan to pay for a hotel room in Paris, Maja Chwalinska At 24 years old, he starred in one of those stories of improvement that sport offers.
She passed the qualifying phase, advancing in the tournament until the final, which she lost to the Russian Mirra Andreeva. Despite the defeat, she was received in Poland as a great, she was showered with sponsors, as well as magazine covers.
However, sportingly it is hitting rock bottom again. They have added six defeats in seven games. The exception, the victory over the Spanish Cristina Bucsa, who has suffered from wrist problems, in Monterrey. Confirmation of the crisis, her elimination in her debut at the US Open, against the American Taylor Townsend. The European was defeated 6-2 and 6-3.
The only consolation is that he has only two million dollars in earnings on the circuit, when he has had a bad time financially. Fortune has not accompanied him, however, on the playing field. With match ball to win your first match in Wimbledonsuffered a fall and injured his ankle. So much so that she was doomed to defeat.
