Danielle Collins: Laura Robson discusses why the top-ranked American prioritized her health over her game of tennis.
Danielle Collins has wisely hung up her racket at the age of thirty, as Laura Robson explains; you can watch over 80 tournaments a year, including the US Open, exclusively live on Sky Sports.
TennisImage:In order to start a baby, Danielle Collins will be laying up her racket this year.Danielle Collins’ decision to retire this year has the support of Laura Robson.
The former runner-up at the Australian Open declared in January that she intended to start a family and would be retiring from the sport in 2024.
Collins has had a career comeback in the last month. At the Miami Open, she defeated Elena Rybakina to win her first Masters 1000 title.
Later, in the Charleston Open, she defeated Daria Kasatkina in a commanding fashion to extend her incredible winning streak to 13 matches in her last season on the WTA Tour.
highlights of Danielle Collins’s Miami Open final matchup with Elena Rybakinahighlights of Collins and Daria Kasatkina’s championship match at the Charleston Open
The 30-year-old American woman has rheumatoid arthritis and has endometriosis, a chronic inflammatory disease that can make it difficult to conceive. She disclosed her diagnosis in 2019.
After attending a college in the US, Collins delayed her professional debut and had an endometriosis-related surgery to remove a tennis ball-sized cyst.
Danielle is my love. I have nothing more positive to say about her. Although she might be a touch fierce when on the court, she is the sweetest person off the court. She’s simply a really sweet person that works extremely hard, and we used to train at the same facility in Florida, Robson said to Sky Sports.
She plays tennis at her best because she went through the US college system, which is a somewhat different route and teaches you how to win some difficult matches with the whole crowd against you and a horrible atmosphere. This is why she has the feistiness on the court.
Even looking back to Australia this year, you could see that she was about to defeat world No. 1 Iga Swiatek in the second round, so there was no way she was going to retire.
Collins won the Charleston Open for the second time in a row, which led to her reunion with her dog Quincy.According to Robson, Collins, a native of Florida, disclosed during a conversation in Doha that she was reserving her best tennis for her home tournament.
Her best opportunity was always going to be on the hardcourts in the United States. She said, I’m going to preserve it, essentially meaning that she would store it for her friends and family to attend the tournament when I get to Miami, my home tournaments, and US Open, while she was alone in Doha. That, in my opinion, truly made a difference Robson stated.
I simply think it’s the most amazing tale, and I don’t know anyone who isn’t delighted for her. She’s probably tired of people asking her about retirement as well because they keep asking whether she’s going to change her mind, and she just says, No, I won’t.
In a sense, you’re asking someone too much when you question if they should retire, or you’re asking them if they’re going to alter their mind after they say they’re going to retire. I simply think that many players have had too much talk about retiring.
She has had rheumatoid arthritis for a long time, and it’s clear that she has thought about it frequently. It’s not an impulsive decision, and she needs to consider her long-term health, so in my opinion, after you say it once, it will definitely make sense, and we can stop there.
You’re not going to change your mind about that overnight, despite people asking you repeatedly if you’re going to alter your mind.
