Danielle Collins transitioned from an Australian Open loss to the world’s No. 1 player to announcing this would be her last season on the pro tennis tour.
With her own kind of perpetual motion, Danielle Collins transitioned swiftly from an Australian Open loss to the world’s top-ranked player to announcing this would be her last season on the professional tennis tour.
While Iga Swiatek was still doing an post-match, on-court TV interview, the 30-year-old American entered a small interview room.
“This is going to be my last season, actually, competing,” she said soon after. “I don’t really know exactly when, but this will be my last season and I’m really looking forward to that.”
The 2022 Australian Open runner-up had just lost five straight games to surrender a 4-1 third-set lead against Swiatek, eventually going down 6-4, 3-6, 6-4 in a 3-hour, 14-minute match on Rod Laver Arena.
The conversational shift from the present to the future happened quickly, in response to the question: Are all losses created equal?
“At this point, I’m kind of at the end of my career and they don’t sting quite as much, to be honest,” she said.
