MADRID, 27 Abr. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Spanish-Venezuelan tennis player Garbiñe Muguruza is “well” and “eager” to return to the court at the Mutua Madrid Open after a month and a half without playing due to tendinitis in her shoulder, a break that “needed” her body and which has also served to “refresh and clarify the objectives”.
“Well, I’ve felt good, I’ve been training these days with good feelings and I’m fresh from not having played before. I’m fine and I’m looking forward to starting. You know that I love to play well here and put out my best tennis, and every year I come with that mentality. I’m working hard, to see if this year is finally,” Muguruza told the media at the Caja Mágica.
The double winner of ‘Grand Slam’ has never gone beyond her third match in a tournament that “always” has generated “pressure”. “I consider that she is very important and it is also the only one we have in Spain, only with those two reasons I already feel her,” she warned.
“Surely it affects me not having competed so much because when you go to compete you notice it, but it is a decision with which I am happy and now I will enter fresher”, added Muguruza, who has undergone a “cold-heat” treatment and that he has been “a lot” with the physiotherapist to solve his problem in the tendon of his shoulder. “It is a normal problem among tennis players and he needs time to rest and not play. Now he is better, the body appreciates the treatment and the rest,” he remarked.
In this sense, the inactivity has been “well” since March. “I think my body needed it and I’m happy to have taken the time, to rest, to be with my team without the day-to-day competition, but now I’m looking forward to being here,” he commented.
To do this, he has “worked more than is usually commented” on the mental aspect, “especially the fact of refreshing and clarifying the objectives a bit and also missing the competition”. “We have a very long and very hard schedule, and sometimes you feel a bit overwhelmed by so many tournaments, and sometimes it’s good to skip one or two to train and recover well to face tournaments with energy and not follow a schedule because you have to do it,” said the one from Caracas.
Muguruza also made it clear that in addition to victories in major tournaments, he has “tennis goals such as setting up matches or how to deal with moments of difficulty.” “Also the objectives for the land that last year did not go well for me and what I must do to make it go better. Every day there is always a mini objective”, he detailed.
The Spanish-Venezuelan recalled that “the land adapts” to her style because “it is where she has played the longest” since she was a child and that she assured that she will not change her style. “I’ve always been aggressive, I think my way of playing will always be the same, to dominate and be aggressive. Maybe I have to control my emotions, pressure and desire more so that it doesn’t have the opposite effect on me,” she stressed. .
“This is a great time. Spanish tennis has always dominated and now more than ever it has a variety of ages, types of games, women and men. Spain is in power now,” he said with a smile about the good health of his sport. Nacional level.
Finally, he considered that the loss of the Polish Iga Swiatek, number one in the world and who arrived in Madrid with 23 wins in a row, affects the tournament above all because “she is the most important player”. “We’ll see if she affects me or not,” settled Muguruza, who had her as a possible rival in the quarterfinals.