US Open 2024 - Danielle Collins : "The journey has been great, but I am out of fuel"

Published: Aug 27, 2024 Duration: 00:02:17 Category: Sports

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[Music] yeah um I definitely am I mean obviously I've talked a lot about wanting to have children and starting a family and being excited about that um and just kind of stepping away from being in the spotlight um you know I I like you know the idea of not traveling 40 weeks out of the year I think that's kind of sounds good at this point in my career with all the travel that I've done I even though I have enjoyed it um a lot I just um yeah I think a lot of us you know we dedicate our whole lives to it to the sport to the travel you give up a lot of um life experiences other life experiences for your career um and you know it was a sacrifice I think that paid off and and I I'm happy that I did it but yeah looking to forward to other things that I'll get to be able to participate in you know that I haven't so um you know Cara's a good friend or's become a good friend of mine um and we've had a lot of fun out on the practice court so it was kind of a no-brainer to um you know get together for the um you know the doubles and and be able to play in in my last slam um with her um we haven't played it before but I feel like I'm I'm in good hands she she's got some titles under her Bel on the double side so um yeah it'll be really interesting Willie last question Willie wein bound from ESPN Danielle how would you describe the journey you've been on from the time you decided to retire including playing so well that so many people said maybe she shouldn't retire yeah I mean I think everybody has been so encouraging and you know it's a compliment that people want to see me play more and um you know I but at the same you know at the same time I'm just kind of ready for that next chapter um you know the Journey's been great um but yeah sorry I'm a little bit out of gas I got a little tired so thank you everyone thank you D thank you [Music]

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