World No. 24, Russian tennis player Anna Kalinskaya, has shared how she recovered after a grueling second-round match at the WTA-1000 tournament in Rome, Italy, against Czech player Katerina Siniakova, which ended 4:6, 7:6 (7:4), 7:5. The encounter lasted 3 hours and 29 minutes.
Katerina Siniakova
K. Siniakova
Finished
1 : 2
1 2 3
6 6 4 5
4 7 7 7
Anna Kalinskaya
A. Kalinskaya
— How do you usually recover after such long, see-saw battles where you narrowly avoid defeat? You saved yourself many times, and the match itself was quite lengthy.
— Yes, it turned out to be the longest match of my career — three and a half hours. The next day I didn’t do anything special — just went to the physio, had a light practice session, focused on unloading and mostly on stretching to restore my muscles. Moreover, it was my second match of the tournament, but actually the third round, played late in the evening. And that worked in my favor, — Kalinskaya said in an interview with Championat correspondent Daniil Salnikov.
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