The world No 1 on how winning her first grand slam finally lifted the pressure on her shoulders and allowed her to relax as a person "Everything I did in life, until now, was just for tennis. Nothing else mattered. That's why it became too much, maybe. That's why I suffered," Simona Halep says intently on a mid-winter afternoon in Bucharest. We sit in a corner of a restaurant where the chink of cutlery provides a refined backdrop to the raw immediacy of a rare interview with the world No 1. Ther...
Simona Halep: 'My dream was to be the best. I did everything for tennis'
The Guardian - 7 Jan 2019 14:30
The world No 1 on how winning her first grand slam finally lifted the pressure on her shoulders and allowed her to relax as a person "Everything I did in life, until now, was just for tennis. Nothing else mattered. That's why it became too much, maybe. That's why I suffered," Simona Halep says intently on a mid-winter afternoon in Bucharest. We sit in a corner of a restaurant where the chink of cutlery provides a refined backdrop to the raw immediacy of a rare interview with the world No 1. Ther...
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