All are former champions in Paris and three of the greatest to have picked up a racquet.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was Roger’s No.1 fan,” she said. “When I started playing tennis, it was all about Roger. And then Rafa and then Novak. So now I’m just praying that Novak keeps on playing so I can watch him play.<\/p>\n
\u201cI’m just actually very grateful that I was growing up during this era, you know,” she added. “And sometimes I come back to these old matches and I watch them play and it feels like poetry, really.”<\/p>\n
Already up to world No.21, Chwalinska will have to drastically rethink her season\u2019s goals from here.<\/p>\n
Should she go all the way she would climb to world No.14 \u2013 that\u2019s a top-16 seeding for Wimbledon, unthinkable only a fortnight ago.<\/p>\n
For now, that\u2019s far from mind as the self-confessed “tennis freak” seeks the necessary disconnect before the biggest match of her life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All are former champions in Paris and three of the greatest to have picked up a racquet. \u201cI…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":621471,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-621470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=621470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/621471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}