The mental and physical tolls of the long tennis season weigh on players by the time they get to the U.S. Open, which concludes this weekend.
“We’re already smashed. Completely,” said Daria Kasatkina, a 26-year-old from Russia who reached the fourth round in New York.
“At a Slam, tension is always there. A few days before it’s starting, you’re already feeling it. ... You have to accept it and, maybe even round by round, it’s getting worse and worse,” said Kasatkina, a 2022 French Open semifinalist. “It’s part of the game. It’s part of this show. And we’re all in the same situation, all the players.”
, who was scheduled to play Madison Keys in the semifinals Thursday night, said before the start of the U.S. Open. “I feel motivated. I feel strong.” , was one of the first stars to come forward and discuss feelings of anxiety and depression, doing so after withdrawing from the 2021 French Open.“It was a little selfish,” Osaka said Wednesday at the U.S. Open, where she participated with retired Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps in aBut she did help spur the discourse.
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