Federico Agustín Gómez has shaken the tennis world with a contribution on Instagram: the Argentine revealed public thoughts. Tennis icon Boris Becker reacted immediately to the news of the 28-year-old. Agustín Gómez himself now wants to look ahead.
The German tennis legend Boris Becker shows great sympathy for the Argentine Federico Agustín Gómez. “God bless Federico!”, The 57-year-old wrote at the short message service X.
In addition, the three -time Wimbledon winner offered his support: “If I can somehow help, contact me via Instagram!”
Agustín Gómez, world rankings 135. From a sporting point of view, the past year was “undisputedly the best of his tennis career”, but from a personal perspective it was the “worst”, said the Argentine.
The 28-year-old wrote the past six months “the toughest I have experienced as a person”.
Agustín Gómez wants to “regain natural joy”
“I lived with the thought of leaving tennis entirely, with the question of whether it is really worth it, and even several times with suicide, because I no longer wanted to live and leave this world, which I can only express very hard, but I wanted it to know that you can understand the actions or behaviors that I may have had in recent times, and this is a little explained.
Agustín Gómez hope that now that he has made his mental problems public, “can live a little more in peace with what I do, what I love, namely play tennis”.
Now he will “try to regain natural joy,” Federico Agustín Gómez finally looked ahead. “I’m still looking for my best I. I will work to find the emotional well -being that I once felt.”
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