No one continues to scan Pablo Carreño’s status better than Pablo Carreño himself. Little can still be extracted from his daily training sessions at the facilities of the Juan Carlos Ferrero Tennis Academy, in Alicante, from where he answers the call from EL COMERCIO, nor from … the training sessions he held with tennis players immersed in the last Conde de Godó Tournament, such as, among others, the winner himself, the Norwegian Casper Ruud, to adapt, catch, a little to the rhythm of the ball. «I wasn’t with them for two hours either. They were one-hour training sessions, also doing exercises… I didn’t start playing a match with them either,” explains the racket player from Gijón, who meticulously measures each of his words. Mere filming, kind reintegration into the game alongside, yes, top-level tennis players.
In any case, today, all mileage is worth gold. The tennis player forged in the Covadonga Group pushes deadlines after more than a dark year. But Carreño has a lot of youth, energy, passion and, why not, self-confidence left, which help him face things more calmly.
“Some days I do feel better, but there are others in which I feel things, that’s why we are playing with the subject a little,” he says, happy to continue growing, despite some slight steps back, to close this long journey, in the form of a hateful tendonitis in the elbow, as he claims. «They have done some tests on me and a little edema has appeared. But everything is within normal limits. “I have to take it a little bit easy,” she admits. But the idea is that, if everything goes well, next week, the one before Roland Garros, I will participate in a Challenge either in Germany or in Macedonia.
Filming
Because the man from Gijón wants to feel like a tennis player again as soon as possible. That first appearance will be nothing more, in any case, than a simple preview of Roland Garros (from May 20 to July 9) and Wimbledon (from July 1 to 14). Evidence that will surely be much more reliable and in which he will truly get back on track if everything goes well, even if it is not 100%. «The idea is to be able to compete, testing, supporting the load, playing several matches in a week, evolving well… My goal is not to arrive well at Roland Garros or Wimbledon. It is more long-term, but you have to start competing somewhere,” says Pablo Carreño.
Because that objective is none other than to reach the Paris Games at a good level, which will start at the end of July. “I have very good memories,” says the Olympic medalist. “I would like to be there,” adds the player from Gijón, who has a guaranteed place in singles at the Paris event.
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