“My life so far has been a dream, I have managed to fulfill all my wishes as a child”. Flavia Pennetta turns 40 and her birthday, which falls on February 25, is an opportunity for a balance between tennis and family on the phone with Adnkronos.
“I became a professional tennis player, which I wanted from an early age and I managed to achieve great goals such as winning the US Open, 4 Fed Cups with the national team and important tournaments like Indian Wells and Los Angeles. Then I managed to train together with Fabio (Fognini, ed.) A happy family with three fabulous children. I would like to say that if the tennis life has been fantastic, being a wife and mother is even more beautiful “, says the former tennis player, protagonist of an amazing career that has taken to number 6 in the world and to win a Grand Slam title.
“It went well! – she says smiling -. I am extremely happy with my career, certainly the victory in 2015 at the Us Open is undoubtedly the best memory at a sporting level because winning a Grand Slam is the most important thing for a tennis player, in addition to having challenged Roberta Vinci in the final with whom we grew up together since childhood made everything even more special. It was the crowning of a career, in fact I announced my retirement during the awards ceremony and two months later at the Wta Finals I stopped definitively. Sweet memories are also the victory in Los Angeles in 2009 thanks to which I entered the top ten, the first Italian one. The victory at Indian Wells in 2014 and the semifinal also in New York “.
The retirement at the end of 2015 led to the renunciation of the Olympics of the following year in Rio de Janeiro. “It was not an easy decision but I never regretted it. I was no longer in top physical condition and I could not have done another year at the most. Continuing to honor the signing is not for me and I have chosen to quit. The decision I didn’t take it for the family, I could have postponed it for a year, but because I couldn’t have been the best Flavia Pennetta possible “.
With Francesca Schiavone, also winner of a Grand Slam in Paris in 2010, the most heated rivalry. “As players we hated each other in a sporting sense, there was great rivalry, we couldn’t bear to lose and we stimulated ourselves a lot during our career and together with her, Roberta Vinci and Sara Errani we won the Fed Cup 4 times, the world championships in the women’s team. Now we love each other, once the competitive tensions have been dissolved, we love each other very much “.
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