Fitness coach Jason Stacy has admitted that Aryna Sabalenka was scared if she could play tennis again after COVID-19. <\/p>\n
The revelation was revealed in an interview on The Line with Dr. Kristen Holmes, where Stacy described his evolution with Sabalenka since their collaboration started. <\/p>\n
It has been a successful collaboration where Sabalenka has been world number one as well as winning four Grand Slam titles. <\/p>\n
However, there were times where Sabalenka doubted herself and one of those times was after the COVID-19 pandemic. <\/p>\n
Stacy recalled Sabalenka\u2019s greatest fear which was learning if she can remember how to play tennis again, \u201cI realised from the start that she\u2019s very, very\u2026 not trusting, very closed off,\u201d Stacy was quoted by the Tennis365 website as saying. <\/p>\n
\u201cPart of it\u2019s her personality, part of it\u2019s the culture she was raised in, where you don\u2019t trust anybody, you don\u2019t speak about your goals, you don\u2019t talk about things because if you talk about something, it\u2019s gonna get taken away from you. If you build something, you\u2019re gonna lose it.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo this is the mentality you\u2019re grown with, you\u2019re raised with, some if it\u2019s culture, some of it\u2019s how she was raised, some of it\u2019s her own personality. But she has this, even to this day, that\u2019s one of her biggest fears of just losing everything. <\/p>\n
\u201cAfter Covid, where we first went back to the US Open, there was this moment where she just was like, she was genuinely terrified that she was gonna not know how to play tennis ever again. Like, she was done.<\/p>\n
\u201cImagine that, you\u2019re like, \u2018What, you\u2019re telling us this now.\u2019 But you can see, it\u2019s a real thing inside of her. And she\u2019s obviously worked through that and managed it, but there\u2019s still this part of her. So the biggest obstacle really was her understanding that for us to progress, for her to grow and to mature and to become what she wants to become \u2014 she has to open up a little bit. Even if it\u2019s just a tiny little crack. Open that door just a tiny bit, be a little bit more vulnerable.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd it wasn\u2019t even coachable, she\u2019ll do whatever we say. But it was just her allowing herself to face those deeper fears that we all have.\u201d<\/p>\n
Luckily Sabalenka has worked through those fears and is now the best player in the world as she aims to win a fifth Grand Slam title at next year\u2019s Australian Open. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fitness coach Jason Stacy has admitted that Aryna Sabalenka was scared if she could play tennis again after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":328267,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-328266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}