Italian no. 1 Francesca Schiavone knows she is no 18-year-old girl, but the Italian is enjoying her tennis now than ever. Schiavone is playing well so far at the US Open where she hopes to win her second slam of the year.
"I'm 30 years old and I want to enjoy the people," she said in her post-match interview. "And I feel like the people enjoy me, and for me that's important."
The Italian also referenced her tennis career as climbing up the mountain.
"I think when you try to reach the top of a mountain then you can't go more and more up," she said. "Then you have to go down and come back up again. I'm doing this and, when it's time to come back up again, I will do it."
She got on the top by winning the French, and now she is at the bottom again trying to go up with the US Open. It is good to see that she is happy with how things are going.