Zeynep Sönmez surprises with tennis match with pausing reading

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Tennis player surprises with a curious break employment

The Turkish tennis player Zeynep Sönmez not only surprises her opponent. But also with a curious break employment during her match.

The Turkish tennis player Zeynep Sönmez triggered great surprise at the China Open. It is remarkable, but nothing extraordinary in itself, but initially nothing extraordinary is that they prevailed in a competitive three -set match against the world ranking -tenth Clara Tauson from Denmark with 6: 4, 2: 6 and 6: 3.

Rather, Sönmez surprised how she used the breaks between the service games. Because while other professionals usually use the three -minute rest phases to drink something, eat or prepare for the next service game, the Turkish woman did something very unusual.

Sönmez used a book to prepare mentally for the further match course – and not to any. At the WTA tournament in China, she was observed how she read “Les Passions de l’âme” (in German: “The Passions of Soul”) while sitting on her bench on her bench on the edge of the field on the edge of the field.

The work of the French philosopher published in 1649 is considered one of the more complex treatises of the early modern period. In it, Descartes explores how emotions influence the human body and what role the mind plays. He describes how affects such as love, fear or joy physiologically express themselves – a topic that at first glance has little to do with the tension of a tennis match.

In fact, reading seems to be anything but typical pause reading for a high-class professional match. The players remain just three minutes in the change of sides to gather, regenerate – or to open a philosophical work that is far from light food. For Sönmez, however, the book was obviously the right choice to focus mentally on the duel on the tennis court – after all, she successfully won it.

It was a very important success for Sönmez. Finally, in Beijing, she now achieved the first victory against a top 20 player-a milestone in the still young career of the 23-year-old. Sometimes unusual events also require unusual means. It is quite possible that you will be able to watch them with the book even more often during the break break.

Incidentally, this is not a complete novelty in tennis. The scene reminded some observers of a similar moment from the past: Former US Open winner Jim Courier also opened a book at a match in Frankfurt against Andrei Medvedev in the early 1990s. However, his title choice caused significantly less a stir. At that time Courier read Armistead Maupin’s novella “Maybe the Moon”.