The champion in Tomljanovic’s corner as she makes Wimbledon charge | Pierik_AgeSport
Wimbledon quarter-finalist Ajla Tomljanovic has opened up about her bond with tennis royalty Chris Evert on a day she was told the title was there for the taking.
Ajla Tomljanovic is through to the Wimbledon quarter-finals for the second year in a row, but this time has greater confidence in her game.Tomljanovic, 29, quickly had to check with her father, former coach and fitness trainer Ratko, to ensure he had booked another night’s accommodation. Since the second round, the, but the robust right-hander says she is not going to jinx her work to date by booking for an extended period.
“I kind of felt at one point bad. She was going through something, if you want to talk about problems in life, that’s something that’s scary. I remember one time telling her: ‘oh, my gosh, I don’t want to bother you with my problems because you’re doing something way harder’. She’s like: ‘no, no, I love, in a way, the distraction’.
“I think she repeated it, like, because I wasn’t saying much, I was just kind of laughing at her. She just kept saying how happy she is for me. I said something like ‘can you believe I’m here after, I don’t know, a couple months ago, the conversations we were having’.Credit:“She said, ‘no, I actually do believe that you’re here because you always work hard’. Like one of the hardest workers that she’s seen, but there was always something missing for that extra step.
“She is really fit, she works hard, taking care of a lot of elements of the game. Hopefully, that self-belief is building because the women’s draw is pretty open. She has a tough assignment, there is no question about it, but the way the women’s draw is unfolding, anybody is a chance who can grab the moment.”“It’s not bad, is it? That’s someone who knows how to navigate a grand slam tournament,” Masur said.
“I had to learn, when I was coming through, I had to learn to take more risk and not look at it as risk, because I have big shots, I’m a big girl, so I’m not going to be running behind the baseline,” she said.
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