the brazilian Beatrice Haddad he stated that without the four surgeries and the one and a half year doping ban he would not be in the Australian Open doubles final. “Every time I lose I feel stronger. In those moments of defeat we grow because life is not just about winning. If I hadn’t gone through four surgeries and a suspension of a year and a half she would not be in the final”, she explained in an interview to Agencia EFE after her victory in the semifinals against the Japanese Shuko Aoyama and Ena Shibahara in a doubles match that she disputes with the Kazakh Anna Danilina.
The Sao Paulo tennis player explained that she signed up for the tournament with Danilina by a whim of fate after the one who was going to be his partner, the Argentine Nadia Podoroska, suffered an abdominal injury and could not travel to Australia. “I asked the WTA if I could put another player in Nadia’s place. Anna was in Tunisia playing an ITF and I told her to come to Sydney to play the preparatory tournament but she didn’t know if she would make it on time. We asked the director and she put us in the last shift and we won the tournament & rdquor ;, he detailed
Haddad, who will have the opportunity to match the feat of her compatriot Maria Bueno, who lifted the doubles crown in Melbourne in 1960, highlighted the ability to get up after wasting her serve to close the match in the second set. “The match was very hard like all of them. I was serving well throughout the tournament but at 5-4 I served very low. I accepted that I failed and we went to the bathroom. When I came back I knew it was going to be different. The most beautiful thing is to overcome oneself & rdquor ;, concluded the Brazilian who fell in the second round of the individual draw after tripping over the Romanian Simona Halep.