• Sorribes Defeat number one: "It is the biggest victory of my career"

Gone are the ghosts.

Who was going to tell Carla Suárez, who leaves Court 5 at Ariake Tennis Park without giving herself too much importance.

He just swept

Ons Jauber (6-4, 6-1)

, recent Wimbledon sensation.

It took just over an hour under the torpor for a triumph that, paradoxically, took 18 months to reoccur.

Year and a half in which he spent his life ahead.

So now everything is so relative.

Carla thinks no further. Nor much Hodgkin lymphoma that was detected in September 2020, which tormented him in the middle of the pandemic, for which he had to receive chemotherapy and radiotherapy treatment and, of course, put his career on hold. She wanted this, her big win, a farewell on the track. "I did not want people to remember me like that.

It would not have been pleasant or positive to have to retire because of cancer

. It was what I wanted, during the illness I had it in mind: to say goodbye where and how I wanted. And I will be able to do it" . So will be the memories, triumphant.

Whatever happens today or tomorrow in Tokyo.

Sunday is his medal now.

"I never thought that I would not win again, but I knew it was a possibility. I'm only playing the Grand Slam and

I'm not at the same competitive level as my teammates," she thinks aloud.

"It is a victory that will remain for the memory. For everything that has happened, complicated moments, for being in some Games. It will be difficult to forget. Being able to win, putting everything I have been training at stake, is satisfactory," he confesses to EL WORLD a while later, from the Olympic Village, where he has just received physiotherapy treatment.

Because "I do not recover the same as before."

And this Monday

Karolina Pliskova is

already waiting

in the second round, seeded number 5.

"I get more tired"

And on Tuesday, at least one other battle, the doubles match with

Garbiñe Muguruza

against the Swiss couple.

A peculiar duo the Spanish, the calm one, the nerve the other, inseparable friends.

But that will be another episode.

The one on Sunday, despite the heat and wind, was moving.

"I have started very well, trying to be concentrated at all times, doing what I had in mind to hurt her, because she plays aggressive and anarchic," detailed the one from Las Palmas, obsessed with rest, because "emotions" also wear out.

It is not for less.

There was a before and after.

"

I get more tired, my breathing is altered earlier

. Sometimes I notice discomfort in my chest, I have more stiffness than normal. They are normal things," he describes.

It is the first victory, although not exactly.

Going back, for Carla, was winning.

"All this is a gift", the standing ovations at

Roland Garros and Wimbledon: "

I am in favor of the saying, 'what you give, they end up giving back to you.' I have been on the circuit for many years and have received a lot of encouragement. I feel privileged. People know that they are my last tournaments. They are taking care of me a lot, they appreciate it, "she says.

Neither in Paris nor in Wimbledon could what happened in Tokyo, but of course ... "I am adapting, I have more time to train and play better. At Wimbledon I played against Barty [winner later]. Against Sloan

Stephens at Roland Garros

it had been less than a month since the treatment had been completed. They are different conditions that have made it possible for me to win today ", who knows" an exemplary case "is sincere." And if I serve as an example for other people, welcome. "And it extends:" That visibility of the disease, if a someone serves you, I'll be happy. I was lucky when they detected it, with people who were in chemo sessions, radio, who had overcome cancer. They told me that, although it is a bad experience, it can be overcome. I have tried to wear it naturally. It is a delicate subject, but hopefully what I am doing to people will serve them. "

And after that.

The US Open will be his professional goodbye, already 33 years old.

But with life, the one that he postponed for his professional career, he has accounts to settle.

First, "rest".

"Being with the family, with friends, with the family, with my partner."

And soon, perhaps,

motherhood

.

"It's something I have in mind. Hopefully. It's not that it just depends on me, to give a button and you get pregnant. It takes a process."

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