Angelique Kerber has met with the Wimbledon victory, a childhood dream. Thanks to the 30-has this success Year your courage to tread new paths, says DW Reporter Jörg straw dummy.
The eyes looked sad, the view was empty. It seemed not to go further. Angelique Kerber hit rock bottom. Just eleven months have passed since that time. Eleven months, in which the world of Kerber completely on the head. At the time, she sat like a misery at the press conference at the US Open. She was again eliminated early and finished with wet eyes, a Grand Slam season to Forget.
You had fallen of world ranked number one from the year 2016 to 21st place. She had worked a year earlier so painstakingly high, for the first time in a Grand Slam tournament, the Australian Open, won, and later still the US Open. She stood at five of the six most important tournaments in the final. The sport crash, which nobody had expected – least of all you. Everything to her seemed to through your fingers.
New coach, no blame
DW-Reporter Jörg straw dummy
Everything you marked a few weeks previously, on the place, was gone: the self-consciousness, the greed, the self-understanding of the security, the combat power. But, at the latest, in this Moment, the feature to-day, Angelique Kerber was made to be a top professional Tennis player, a Grand Slam winner, entered.
She’s a fighter, not giving up even in hopeless moments. Not on the tennis court. And also not next to it. They had to change their environment, and did not hesitate. Kerber took with Wim Fisette a new coach.
Blame your Coach, Torben Beltz, who had accompanied them to a roughly two-year Pause, the whole athlete’s life, there was. Rather, it seemed to do her humanly very sorry. From a professional point of view, but it was the right decision. The 30-Year-old needed a new impetus and gave you. Perhaps at the last possible Moment.
Again, out of the comfort zone
And that she has moved out of their comfort zone and, despite their fairly advanced athletes-age-new ways to ride, is by no means a matter of course. Especially since Kerber had earned her prize money to over $ 20 million and it would calm be able to tackle.
But Kerber has the fire, the energy and the will to make a real Champion. You still want to collect the title. And you want to fulfill your dreams. So as it is today. Your weakness and used it to reflect on itself and to draw the right conclusions. The result of this not self-evident courage to change.