He hung up his racket just weeks ago, but that hasn’t made Garbiñe Muguruza say goodbye to tennis. “I have been making the decision little by little. The rest made me feel better, and I didn’t miss the discipline and difficulty that I had before,” acknowledged the Hispanic-Venezuelan in a press conference prior to the Laureus Awards. Thus, with a stroke of a pen and after 13 months of activity, the double Grand Slam winner said goodbye to the day-to-day life of tennis.. Today, it seems that return to the world from another perspective.
After years of being judged, she will be the one to cast a critical eye about those who were his companions. Muguruza returns to tennis and does so as a columnist in El Mundo. “I was eager to do new things recently retired, to open other horizons“acknowledges Javier Martínez, editor specialized in tennis for El Mundo who achieved this collaboration.
In her first writing, published last Sunday, the former tennis player addresses a reality yet to be assumed in the world of tennis: the generational change. In her lines she analyzes the situation of big names in sport such as Rafa Nadal or Novak Djokovic. All of this, from the perspective of a person who has experienced elite sports from the front lines. Of course, from the middle they make it clear. “We talk about what we want to discuss that day and she is the one who writes it“, they say.
“The idea is that analyze current events from your personal experience. Putting what happens a little into context from the point of view of an elite tennis player like she has been,” Martínez expands. In this case, Muguruza does not fail. Between its lines you can see interpretation y personal experiences. “At the beginning of my career it was me against the world, she self-managed it alone. It was in recent years when she had a psychologist,” you can read in her first text when she remembers going out on the court at great events like Roland Garros.
The joke that ended with Muguruza writing opinion columns
It may seem strange read a former elite athlete in a written mediumthey are more given to expand your resume in radio or television. In the case of Garbiñe Muguruza (30 years old), since the proposal arrived there was never a doubt that it would be carried out. “I interviewed her when she retired and I jokingly said to her: ‘You already know where we are.’ Her press manager said: ‘As a columnist, right?'” Javier Martínez begins.
“Then during the Madrid tournament, well Her press officer told me if this was serious and I told her that we would be delighted to have her. In principle, the idea of both parties is to continue. They will not be daily columns with Roland Garros, but punctual and when current events demand it. If she is comfortable and if she feels like it, as it seems, then we will continue“, concludes the editor of El Mundo a Relevo.
This is how a new stage begins for the winner of Roland Garros and Wimbledon. This way, leaves behind his relationship with the linesmen to embark on a new, and exciting, stage where The judges of your lines will be the readers themselves. Welcome to the ring, Garbiñe.
2024-05-27 14:47:29
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