Ukrainian tennis player Elina Svitolina spoke about her return to the game after the birth of a child. The athlete plans to return to the tournament in Charleston in April.
“I practically didn’t follow any results. For five months I didn’t watch tennis Twitter or Instagram at all. Some news flashed, but there was no desire to go into what happened on the tour at all. I had other priorities: my health, my psychological state, I was also 100% involved in my fund. It was important for me to mentally take a break from tennis, because it takes a lot of energy, and there was no such need to watch it (laughs). True, I watched Gael’s matches, of which there were few, probably only four, since he was injured and often did not play. Now I feel like this vacation without tennis really helped my comeback, because in early January I ran straight to training.”
“Our first idea was to play at Wimbledon, but then when we saw that my training form was good enough, we began to think about Roland Garros and the tournaments before it. For example, Rome. Yes, at some point we began to think that Rome would be the first tournament.”
“When I started playing with some girls, I felt that I was already somewhere in 80% of my good shape. That’s when we decided that since I’m going to play on clay, I’ll train long enough, it might be a good idea to start with Charleston, as it’s the first clay tournament. So I can play the whole clay season, because my condition in the training sense is at a very good level. Now I myself have no expectations from myself, ”said Svitolina.
