“I didn’t talk about retirement.” Tennis player Vesnina said she wants to continue playing in 2025

Olympic champion Elena Vesnin told that she wanted to continue playing next season.

Vesnina returned to tennis in early 2024, saying she wanted to play at the Paris Olympics. After exiting the Olympics in the first round, Vesnina, 38, announced she was sitting out the final season of her career.

— After the Olympics, you said that you were spending the last season of your career. Has the situation changed?

— This year I have already finished the season. One tournament is at stake because I am ill and I am in Moscow. I had to take a course of antibiotics and withdraw from the Asian series, Beijing and Wuhan. Initially, Anya Kalinskaya and I planned to play as a couple. This season is uncertain, but I have not officially announced my retirement. I do not know where I will start next season.

— So you plan to play next year? You said earlier that this was your last season and your last Olympics.

— It was definitely the last Olympics. I have a frozen grade, there are offers from girls to play in tournaments in pairs. While I think, I will look at what I feel and the calendar.

— Are you planning to play only with two people, without a single person?

– Yes, just a few.

—Apart from the illness, are there any health problems?

— After the Olympics, my old back injury got worse. I treated it for a month and was going to fly to the Asian series, but this ARVI happened at the wrong time, “Vesnina told .

Vesnina won the doubles tournament at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro with Ekaterina Makarova. At the Tokyo Olympics, Vesnina and Aslan Karatsev won silver medals in mixed doubles. Vesnina is the winner of Wimbledon (2017), Roland Garros (2013), US Open (2014) in women’s doubles and Australian Open (2016) in mixed doubles.

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