Different challenge<\/p>\n
Now 33, and coming off a difficult foot injury (right foot, stress fracture), the former world No.3 just wants to regain her match toughness in 2026. The rest? We shall see, says the former finalist who owns a 35-13 lifetime record in the main draw at the Parisian Slam.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cOnly time will tell, but I think I’ve had an interesting journey on the way back here,\u201d Stephens said after her victory on Monday. \u201cIt just feels different this time, but it’s fun. Playing on a protected ranking, playing qualies of Slams \u2013 just a different challenge. <\/p>\n
\u201cI think there’s a lot of things that I haven’t done and things I need to accomplish and overcome, and I’m just ready for that. I mean, I’ve done all the good stuff, so I might as well.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Different challenge Now 33, and coming off a difficult foot injury (right foot, stress fracture), the former world…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":652188,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-652187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/652188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}