Pablo Carreño: "My grandmother prepares seafood for me when I'm in Gijón, it's what I miss the most when I'm away"

2021 was for Pablo Carreño (Gijón, July 12, 1991) one of his best seasons as a professional tennis player on the ATP circuit. After an intense year, the current world number 20,

in singles at the Tokyo Olympic Games and champion at the Hamburg and Marbella tournaments, has had some well-deserved rest days in his native Gijón, where he spent Christmas accompanied by his family and his girlfriend. There he has been able to relax, disconnect and eat well before traveling to Australia, where these days he plays the ATP Cup with the rest of the Spanish team. The Asturian tennis player tells us how the parties usually pass before resuming the competition.

"Due to my profession,

I have very few vacations. When I am not traveling, I am competing and when I am not competing I am training, in Alicante (at the Juan Carlos Ferrero academy) or in Barcelona. But as soon as I have a few days off,

to whom I am not lucky enough to see everything I would like. There I manage to disconnect quietly. We have a house with a lot of land in a village ten minutes by car from Gijón. I love to go there for a walk with the dog in the countryside, relaxing, picking apples ... In short, I look for the tranquility that I lack from day to day when I am on the circuit.

On Christmas Eve and Christmas

we get together a lot of family. I have two sisters and we make a lot of plans together while I'm there, which is only a week, because I have to go right away to prepare for the season. I am very familiar and

and meals. On our mother's side, we are many uncles and cousins ​​and we have gotten together about 25 or 30 people to eat. I have fond memories of when I was little and being with all my cousins ​​the same age playing games.

I don't cook, my father does, my grandmother ...

and my mother takes care of the Christmas meal. I only help out at dinners where we get less crowded. When I'm with them, we eat a lot of seafood and other dishes that I don't normally eat when traveling between tournaments. I have no favorite food, I like everything. I'm used to the countries I go to from so many countries, but

; It's what I miss the most My grandmother loves to buy it for me and prepare it ... and I eat it, of course!

The rest of the time that I am in Gijón I spend hiking.

There are many, many roads in the surroundings that are beautiful.

Last year I remember that I went with my sister and a group of friends to the mountains;

It had snowed and we were doing a snowshoe route.

We had a phenomenal time.

I also like to play golf and when I have time I play, but unfortunately I don't do it as much as I would like.

These days I take the opportunity to meet my commitments with my sponsors and brands of which I am an image, such as Joma, Wilson or Peugeot, among others.

During the season we do an event, but obviously it is when I have more gaps that we do more promotional activities, although they don't make it very difficult for me and they try to adapt to my calendar. "

New Year's Eve in the antipodes

"New Year's Eve and New Year's Eve I always have to spend them outside of Spain

. The dates coincide with the start of the season in Asia and Australia and, except this year when, due to the Covid, I had to stay at home, the normal thing is that I celebrate it in the hotel where I stay depending on the city in which is competing at those times. Some years I have spent in Doha (Qatar), others in Perth (Australia), others in New Zealand; it's very diverse. Sometimes I am with my girlfriend and coach alone and on other occasions we have coincided with the entire Spanish team for having participated in the ATP Cup. Tournaments usually set up things so that we celebrate it and know that it is a different day, but they are not parties to use, because the next day, January 1, we have to be racing again. At most, we had a drink to toast the New Year, but little else!

, because that is not done abroad.

One year in Chenay (India), they did give us grapes, because one of those who organized the tournament was Spanish and she decided to distribute 12 grapes among the Spanish who were there because she knew it was tradition, but if not, no grapes in New Years Eve".

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