Career took a wild upswing after French Open win over Serena Williams: Kenin

Earlier on Tuesday, the 28th of January, the glittering Florida-fab with an all-time career high ranking of 12, Sofia Kenin, said in a post-match interview after a convincing quarter final win in the Australian Open 2020 that her career had witnessed an abrupt flip-flop on an affirmative route following her French Open win against the sedulous 38-year-old American, Serena Williams in straight sets on June 2019.

Besides, Sofia Kenin, the 21-year-old Russia-borne American, who started off playing tennis on her father’s influence at the age of five despite nearly a hand-to-mouth struggle that her parents had to grapple with less than a decade after migrating from former Soviet Union, also added after beating the Tunisian 25-year-old Ons Jabeur 6-4, 6-4 to snatch her spot in the semi-final against the top Seed Australian, Ashleigh Barty, due to take place on Thursday (January 30th), that, the 6-2, 7-5 win against Serena Williams in the third round of French Open last year had been a turning point of her career.

Meanwhile, addressing to her improvements following ditching out her career role-model, the 38-year-old Serena, with whom the 21-year-old still dreams of playing doubles, the 14th Seed Sofia Kenin said on Tuesday (January 28th), “…I obviously saw that I can play on this level, I could play with the best. Of course, it just happens to be Serena, my idol. I feel like after that, things took off. I feel like all the match play I’ve had has helped me. I’m really happy. I’ve worked really hard to get to where I am. I’ve done a really hard pre-season. I knew that it’s going to help me and it’s going to pay off. Thank God it’s paying off…”

from Tennis World USA https://ift.tt/3aOrOkw