Simona Halep has fulfilled her dream of becoming the No. 1 in her fourth attempt.The secret of success: a hardcore punishment training after the US Open.
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For Simona Halep, there are four good things to come out on top: After missing only one match win for the number 1 three times, she now clinched the top spot in Beijing with her semi-final victory over Yelena Ostapenko.
And not only in the final serve game against the Latvian – who won Halep to zero – but almost the whole week, she convinced with a previous weak spot: her serve.And that was no coincidence.
I said,”If that’s the only thing I can improve to beat her, then I’ll work for her.” In the return leg against Sharapova in Beijing, Halep’s serve was particularly strong:”In the return leg against Sharapova, Halep’s serve was 74″.And she also won 64 percent of the second serve.She scored the four points for the match with four first serve, including an ace and a service winner.
“I can say it now: I was on the pitch for an hour every day and practiced serves.Darren told me to stop it because I was going to get hurt, but I said no,”Halep laughed in Beijing,”I just wanted to.With everything I had.”
However, her biggest lesson of the year was the separation from Cahill after her performance in Miami.They realized that they had done something wrong and swore to work hard to get Cahill back.”That was the best lesson – not only for tennis, but for life.”
I’m his third number one, but the only woman.He said he had had the youngest number 1 (Lleyton Hewitt) and the oldest (Andre Agassi).I said,”Then I’ll be the middle one.”