Swan first came to prominence when she reached the 2015 Australian Open girls’ singles final aged 15. <\/p>\n
A year later, she became the youngest ever player to represent Great Britain in the Billie Jean King Cup.<\/p>\n
But her career never took off the way many expected it to. <\/p>\n
Swan was plagued with persistent back injuries and was often forcing herself to play through immense pain. By the end of 2024, she had reached breaking point.<\/p>\n
“I wasn’t playing tennis anymore. I was coaching in the United States and I wasn’t really sure there was a way back to professional tennis,” she told BBC Radio 5 live.<\/p>\n
“I never fell out of love with the sport. I just couldn’t stay healthy for long enough.<\/p>\n
“I was trying to enjoy coaching and do what I could to earn some money, but it was not really fulfilling for me in that moment.<\/p>\n
“I knew there was a lot more I could still give if I could just find a way to resolve my health issues.”<\/p>\n
Luckily for Swan, she found a doctor that could help. Unfortunately, the treatment she needed was “excruciating”.<\/p>\n
“He ended up doing a nerve kind of treatment on me. It was very painful,” she said.<\/p>\n
“He found that my nerves weren’t functioning properly. It wasn’t very enjoyable, but I spent a couple of weeks with him, and it really, really helped.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Swan first came to prominence when she reached the 2015 Australian Open girls’ singles final aged 15. A…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":735820,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-735819","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\/735819","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=735819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/735820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=735819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=735819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=735819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}