MADRID, 18 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Hispanic-Venezuelan tennis player Garbiñe Muguruza was exultant after winning the WTA Finals this Wednesday, a title that for her “is almost equivalent to a ‘Grand Slam'” and that serves to close what she believes has been her “best season” on the circuit and that it will give him “a very good inertia” for 2022.
“I think it’s a different feeling. The ‘greats’ are better known, more colorful and with more history, but when you are among the top eight, each game is a final and you know that the one that wins the trophy is the best of the year. From the outside, it may not be appreciated, but from the inside it is almost equivalent to a ‘big’, “Muguruza said at a press conference.
For the one from Caracas, “it sounds phenomenal” to be cited as a ‘teacher’. “I feel like strange. The week had started ‘uffff’ and I did not see them all with me, but I have endured, hoping that I could and I have shown that I can,” he said.
“It is a sensation now. It had been a while since I did not lift such an important trophy. I was very close in Australia last year and these are the moments that we live and feed on. That feeling of playing finals, which is something so, so difficult, that when it is achieved it is a relief and a feeling that all suffering has been worth it “, stressed the champion in Guadalajara (Mexico).
Muguruza stressed that it had been “a long season”, but that he really wanted to fight for this trophy since he was told that “it was going to be in Guadalajara.” “That was my maximum motivation and achieving it gives you a joy that is the best,” he added.
“You are going to see me doing nothing on a deckchair,” she replied, smiling, wondering if she was going to celebrate it in some special way. “Last year I was on the right track after the final in Australia and everything stopped me with COVID. I wanted to start where I left off and I think it has been my best year, stable despite some moments, and where I have been calmer. It has been in which more finals I have played and more titles I have won, finishing with this one, so I consider that it has been my best season, “he stressed.
And everything has been the result of “an evolution”. “There is no secret, it is everyone’s teamwork. I have more experience, more perspective and peace of mind when it comes to dealing with the good and the bad moments. Here, I started on the wrong foot and I have turned it around, and I don’t think so. that previously would have been possible, “he admitted.
“This Garbiñe is more experienced in bad times. This week has been stressful, but you had to fight, fight and endure, although I admit that there was a moment when I saw myself quite out,” continued the double ‘Grand Slam’ champion .
The Spanish-Venezuelan did not want to “think much” about the possibility she had of making history in Spanish women’s tennis so as not to get “more nervous.” “I already had enough pressure after being eliminated and then seeing me in the final, so whatever happened it was a good tournament. But it’s great to be the first Spanish woman to do it, and it has been a long time since Alex,” she said in relation to the last one. title of ‘master’ of Spanish tennis achieved in 1998 by Alex Corretja.
The former world number one warned that her career is still missing “some ‘greats’.” “They are the tournaments that motivate me the most. I ended this year with a great feeling that will give me a very good momentum to start 2022 with confidence, but whatever happens in Australia, this trophy will not be taken away from me” , he highlighted.
Finally, she played down the importance of being number three in the world as of Monday. “It’s news to be at the top, but the feeling of winning is what pushes me to be ambitious. That goal of being number one is there, but there is no better feeling than taking a trophy from either a ‘big’ or a WTA 100. The ranking was already important in its time and now I look at it less, “he said.