Viva Flavia Penetta! I am going to give you a quick snapshot of why I toasted her win.
During the interview, I laughed with her and cried with her. She says she is retiring from the circuit because of lack of motivation for smaller and non-grand slam tournaments and that she no longer has it in her to keep going- come rain or sunshine. I admired her honesty and the way she savoured her win, her only won and that to at a grand slam at 33 and her last. Penetta says she is retiring after this tournament and she is ging to find out what life is like with her partner but without tennis; her parner bring the the mad, temperamental and equally talented , world no 22. Fabio Fognini. She wants to go bycycling in New York and maybe visit Victoria's Secret. She want to go around the city, stop at a bar for coffee. For celebrations, Penetta will go out with her team, have lots of wine, dinner and sleep. Well deserved and much needed!
Well done Flavia Penetta for being refreshingly honest about retirement and for wanting all the things normal people do and for savouring this win like your first swig of wine or your first airborne moment, your first trip alone with friends and who better to do it with than the very friend who you have started your tennis journey with- Roberta Vinci. There was such joy in the end of match ceremony- something that is missing when veterans like Serena Williams or Sharapova win championships- They enjoy winning more than playing. These cats and tigresses of the ocurt forget one cardinal rule of the sport they play- the spirit of the game. And today Vinci and Penetta had that in plenty.
May there be many more Penettas and Vincis and Bartolis and yes Lisickis to win matches and elevate the game with their hearts that shine in their eyes and soar in their words.
During the interview, I laughed with her and cried with her. She says she is retiring from the circuit because of lack of motivation for smaller and non-grand slam tournaments and that she no longer has it in her to keep going- come rain or sunshine. I admired her honesty and the way she savoured her win, her only won and that to at a grand slam at 33 and her last. Penetta says she is retiring after this tournament and she is ging to find out what life is like with her partner but without tennis; her parner bring the the mad, temperamental and equally talented , world no 22. Fabio Fognini. She wants to go bycycling in New York and maybe visit Victoria's Secret. She want to go around the city, stop at a bar for coffee. For celebrations, Penetta will go out with her team, have lots of wine, dinner and sleep. Well deserved and much needed!
Well done Flavia Penetta for being refreshingly honest about retirement and for wanting all the things normal people do and for savouring this win like your first swig of wine or your first airborne moment, your first trip alone with friends and who better to do it with than the very friend who you have started your tennis journey with- Roberta Vinci. There was such joy in the end of match ceremony- something that is missing when veterans like Serena Williams or Sharapova win championships- They enjoy winning more than playing. These cats and tigresses of the ocurt forget one cardinal rule of the sport they play- the spirit of the game. And today Vinci and Penetta had that in plenty.
May there be many more Penettas and Vincis and Bartolis and yes Lisickis to win matches and elevate the game with their hearts that shine in their eyes and soar in their words.
