Tennis, a devouring machine of bodies and minds, now forces the Valencian to the Valencian Sara Sorribes, who simply says he has lost the illusion. Hence the break announced Thursday, perhaps temporary or indefinite. The fact is that the athlete needs to stop, take distance, observe with perspective and put things in due place because today, his physique and head do not give today for more. Without half inks, it is expressed with the same determination with which they war on the slopes. “I wanted to tell you that I have decided to take some time. A time for me, for my head and for my body,” synthesizes in a text of handwriting and lyrics spread through their social networks.
It transmits Sorribes that today, the negative weighs great on the positive and that is not a new sensation, but actually comes from afar. Not only do you enjoy it, but suffer. And more than symptomatic that of not wanting to take the rachetero to address the day -to -day work for (and competition) as her, an example of constancy, self -examination and perseverance; An irreducible fighter capable of throwing hours and hours on the track, always a teeth pain for rivals. “I have been suffering for many months inside a tennis court. The cheerful and happy Sara who looks outside the track is much less the reality of everything I have inside,” he writes.
“I have lost the illusion for training, to improve and even to go to tournaments. The moments of suffering are many more than those of tranquility. It says a person who has always loved to work, improve and compete. Therefore, in addition to needing help, I feel that I need to stop/rest. I do not know if definitively or temporarily,” Priega Sorribes, who like all and all, began as a child and started quickly. “I only suffer when I do not have a racket in my hand. That’s when I spent it wrong,” he told this newspaper, when he was already looked at professionalism and became the youngest Spanish, then 16, to win a WTA point.
Now, however, the dynamics of recent times forces this break “to be consistent and consistent” with what your body feels, closes the note. It is its reality and that of so many other tennis players who gradually merge for routine, wear and overload, compete and compete and more compete, from January 1 to November and then the preseason; ; a continuous erosion that does not understand classes and that hits those from above, the most privileged, to those in the middle and those who come from behind. Without exception. The system, neither more nor less. A wheel that turns and turns, and ends up taking a few races. Osaka, Anisimova, Paula Badosa herself. They all had to stop.
Sorribes began to complicate everything a couple of years ago, when he noticed a crack in the scaphoid of the right foot and had to be half a year in the reserve; Then, everything that entails a reengheche to the race, without truce so as not to continue falling and losing ease in a sport that does not admit pauses. The previous course had managed to ascend until position 32 of the rankingits peak, but in recent times it had lost vigor in the individual format, which not in the doubles. Today is the 85th of the world and in its curriculum there are the titles of Guadalajara (Mexico, 2021) and Cleveland (2023), in addition to six other trophies in pairs. , with Spain, but the thing was not going well.
“Now I am believing it increasingly. I think they see a fierce and hard player, who has more and more weapons and that increasingly bothers them a little more,” he told this newspaper two years ago, when coinciding with a serious Badosa injury, he had become the national reference. Is the radiography of a marathonian Manual, with kilometer triumphs —4h 15m against Xinyu Gao in Beijing 2024, the longest room in the open era, or 3h 54m against Camila Osorio in Cleveland 2022, the eighth – and a few unforgettable; And in recent, in Paris, the bronze was hung by Cristina Bucsa, with which he champion last year in Madrid.
Now, however, you must stop. The other face.
