In a press conference, the 24-year-old player was notably asked about her many tattoos: “For me it’s an art. I like this. I appreciate people who do that. I made a bet with my trainer. If I win a Grand Slam, he will have one, so hopefully he will (smile). She also spoke about the injury that kept her out of Wimbledon last season: “I didn’t play for six months last year. You never know if you can be at that level again. I’m so grateful to be here, to be healthy and to be playing tennis again after this wrist injury. I was here last year watching my best friend Miriam (Kolodziejová, world 46 in doubles) play the qualifiers. I was wearing a cast. We were playing doubles together here this year. With my sister, we went to see her in Roehampton, then we spent a week in London. I had shopped for a few good restaurants. I had no idea that a year later I would be in the Wimbledon final. »
Especially since the grass is not his favorite surface. “On clay or on hard courts, maybe I would have said that it was possibly possible, but for me, on grass, it was impossible”, assured the finalist on clay at Roland-Garros in 2019. “In 2019 I was very young (20) and I think it was just too much for me at the time. I’m a little older now, I’m a different person and I’m very happy to be going through it all again.”
