Caroline Garcia wins the WTA Masters and rises to the top of women’s tennis

This year she is the one to take the cup home. On Monday, November 7 in Fort Worth, Texas, Caroline Garcia won the WTA Masters, the tournament that brings together the 8 best players in the ranking. At 29, Lyonnaise closes the women’s tennis season so masterfully. But for “Caro”, as she is nicknamed, this may just be the beginning of the glory.

In the footsteps of Amélie Mauresmo

Caroline Garcia started the season in 74th place in the standings, now she is 4thindicates theAFP. He thus regains the place he occupied in 2018, after 4 difficult years, marked in particular by recurring physical problems. This time, it is the mind that could have failed him. A few days before the start of the Masters, his coach Bertrand Perret announced his departure. “There have been problems in the last few weeks. They ended up spoiling the atmosphere and I preferred to stop. I do this job for fun and there were fewer of them, ”he later confided The group. But he needed more to destabilize the player. “I had to accept the situation and focus on the present moment. But I knew my game was there, “she said after her semi-final win against Greece’s Mária Sákkari. Caroline Garcia is the second Frenchwoman to win the WTA Masters after Amélie Mauresmo in 2005. A heritage that she measures: “we were lucky to have immense champions in France in the past, I am really proud to be part of it”, she said moved, during her first speech to the press after her victory.

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