It has been a profitable 2022 marketing campaign for Rebecca Marino, one the place she has achieved targets and achieved a number of career-firsts. Her efficiency through the North American summer season laborious courtroom season was no exception.
It began with a powerful run to the quarter-finals of the Citi Open, a WTA 250 occasion in Washington, D.C. She performed her approach via qualifying to earn a spot in the primary draw the place she posted a memorable victory over the legendary Venus Williams within the opening spherical. The 31-year-old additionally beat Andrea Petkovic earlier than falling to Daria Saville within the remaining eight.
Marino then returned to Canada to play in Toronto’s Nationwide Financial institution Open offered by Rogers, her residence match, the Odlum Brown VanOpen, in Vancouver which was contested on the Hollyburn Nation Membership for the primary time in three years, and the Nationwide Financial institution Championships in Granby the place she reached the quarter-finals for the second time in a month.
A Grand Slam Breakthrough
Her summer season ended on a excessive notice because of her first third spherical look at a Grand Slam since 2011 in Flushing Meadows this week.
Marino’s two match wins on the U.S. Open, each in straight units over Magdalena Frech and Daria Singur, will propel her again contained in the Prime 100 within the WTA rankings, at her highest rating since saying her return to tennis in 2017. In July, she broke into the Prime 100 for the primary time since 2012 and now she’s again, sitting someplace round no. 90. The leap will enable her to realize direct entry into greater occasions. In New York, she squeaked into the primary draw with a no. 106 rating which meant she might keep away from the stress of getting to qualify. Attending to the third spherical additionally signifies that she earned the largest payday of her profession as she’ll take residence $188,000 US (or $246,500 CAN) in prize cash.
Marino will look to proceed her climb up the rankings throughout her subsequent scheduled WTA 250 tournaments in Chennai, India, and Seoul, South Korea, starting on September 12.
A Lengthy Street Again
Marino has left no stone unturned throughout her comeback and has not reduce any corners. She is an inspiration on and off the courtroom. The braveness and power she confirmed a decade in the past in talking overtly about her struggles with melancholy and signs of burnout at a time when it was nonetheless thought of taboo to take action has helped so many.
“I’m actually, actually pleased with her as a result of this has not been a straightforward highway for her, quite a lot of challenges,” mentioned Sylvain Bruneau, Head Girls’s Nationwide Coach at Tennis Canada. “She’s a really quiet, peaceable warrior, however she’s a warrior in her personal approach and when it issues, when it counts, don’t greatest towards her.”
On the courtroom, Marino’s laborious work and willpower proceed to make this second chapter of her profession so rewarding. One of the best half is, it seems to be like she’s simply getting began.
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