Gabriela Sabatini

you might have. Okay, Okay, I have to say, um, this is just exciting for the fans as it is for me because, like I told you a couple of days ago, it is the first time I got a chance to meet you in person. And I can't tell you what a fan I've been of your career and everything you've done for the tennis So thank you for that, I know your career. Also for me, it is a pleasure to to meet you, to see you your adorable, So thank you. Know. So I go straight to the point. Okay,

one on earth you do we need to know? All the girls in the world need to know the recipe. No, there there is no secret. I think if you have a good nutrition, and you work out and uh and most importantly, I think you have to be happy, you know, from the insight, just follow the things you you like to do. I think that's that's the best of the most important thing, you know, just to to follow what you like to do and be happy. So when you say work out, do you stick more to the cardio

weights or what do you like to do? These days? I did the several things. When I stopped playing, I I did a I started to run a lot, a lot, like three hours, four hours. And then I got into the bicycle. I heard that, so I'm riding the bike. Um, and I did the two the fronts just a few stage the h five stages. Okay, that's the secret. Anyone to the front stages. You look like they exact no, no, no, yeah. And then I like to work out. I like to go to the gym, you know, exercises. I mix it

up with doing legs, kettle bus and nutritions. Nutrition. Um, I I eat mostly. I tried to have a complete you know, nutritional you know, like try to cover everything, so protein, cargo, hydrates, vegetables, fruits. So okay, I do that, you know, I obviously have my my temptations, which I love ice creams, so I could same every single day. Okay, I like chocolate and we do. Though people think we have to be on some crazy diets to look good, but no, no, no, no way no. A Dias confirmed

you need to please yourself. It's important also, so you have to find a balance. But if you eat, you know, mainly your foundation, your base is healthy, you know, like you cover pretty much everything, then you will be okay, definitely okay. Now we know recently started to play tennis again, which I think all the fans around the world are supri happy about. First of all, what made you decide to to give it a go again, I don't know,

I'm not sure. But no, um, actually I don't play much tennis usually no, I work out, but I never played tennis. Maybe in a social way with friends once in a while. And we started to see each other a lot. With Cicella, my partner, we started to play paddle tennis together in Argentina. So um, so I think they saw us playing and they invited us to to come here and uh yeah we we We discussed it with and he said, well, I would be happy to play and s Okay, I never played before, but yeah,

what do we give better? Try? You know? And how was the experience so far? Yeah, very nervous every single day. Today we were playing and we were like, I can't breathe. I can't breathe. You almost get a panic. Well, last night I was a literal bit like that, like, oh my god, I can't believe I'm feeling this now, you know. Uh no, But the best part is just to see all of you. You know, it's just too I haven't seen you know, all the tennis family for such a long time, and I'm so happy to to talk and

to see each other. Um, and that's the most fun, being honest. The night before the mansion, do you think like, Okay, what am I gonna eat? What am I gonna dress? It? It comes to thought. But then you're like, okay, no, no, I mean I don't. I don't do that for the match, but I do it as a lifestyle, you know, to

maintain you know, my life. But the crazy superstitious you keep, no, well you mean that the super no, no, I don't do to be attached to that because because to a bit crazy no, no, no, I think we want to be talking somewhere else. Yes, exactly, exactly, so better not okay, um, now let's go a little bit back. Obviously, your parful was the thing that I noticed with your career when I was growing up. It's like, oh my god, how do you do? Did you have incredible results on the court?

How did you find the time to actually create this and be part of this, which, as we know, when you play tennis, you have to focus on this. Actually I started to work with the perfume. It was Perfume brand, family brand that has asked me to to have my own perfume. I was I remember sixteen, seventeen years old, and you know at that time you're not so much into perfumes, and so it's like I started to discover

a new world. And I remember them sending me the different smells, the packaging, you know, to choose to pick which one I liked. And it was actually fun because you know how it is when you are playing, you're like in a bubble. You don't do too many other things. So so this was like a nice destruction. You know, I will get to the hotel, starts smelling the perfumes, and and so actually I I like it. I mean

it's a it's a huge different world talking about the destructions. UM, what would you advise any successful, good looking, young female athletes. We talk about this mental wellness a lot of these days. What helped you to find that balance between having all the attention of the world on your shoulders, but at the same time keep kind of a normal life. I

think it's it's about funding a balance. I think, UM, you have to not forget that your person first of all, and to keep doing the things that you like to do, you know, if it is I don't know, reading, UM, I don't know, listening to music, or or or we even study. UM, I think you should not stop doing those things. I think you should put some time into that to to find the balance. Because tennis takes it takes about, you know, twenty four hours a day, you know,

so it's important that you find a balancing. You put some time to yourself, you know, in the things you like to do. UM. You know, go to a concert if you like music, or go to a museum, go to a bookstore. UM. Or like I said, is to study, you know, if you continue to study. Also, it's it's nice UM. The podcast it's called The Real DNA because I feel like DNA for me, it's tennis. I think for you it's the same time, same thing. What is the biggest gift tennis has given you for your life?

So many, so many I'm so um so thankful to to tennis because all the people I met, the friends I have, UM, the places I got to see, the the growth, the maturity, um, so many things, UM, the connection with people. It's uh, so many things. The upside of tennis that people maybe haven't realized that you had to deal with. UM. I think the media, the press

that was that was tough. I remember in the beginning when I started to become more popular in my home country in Argentina, I would read the newspaper and maybe seeing a negative comment or something that was not based in anything you know and mean, so I was like, why did they write these things? You know? And I had to to work on that a lot, you know, to try to not not to read, not to to to listen or to get distracted with those things. So um, yeah,

it took me a while. UM. And then in Argentina, you know, uh, the media could be really tough, you know, like like they want you to be number one you know, the next day, and so one day you're here and another day you're down here, you know. So it's difficult. It's something that you really have to work on. What would you advise the young athletes out there with the social media now, because back in the day maybe you can kind of find a distance and hide away for it.

Now not really. I'm so thankful that we have media exactly exactly because this stays is um the communication is so much from everywhere, and you see so many negative comments, and it's very hard not to read them. You know, you always get caught in those comments. And how do you deal with it? You know, I see it. I see it with the players today. UM. So I don't know really how how do you do it? But I would again, I will try to find a balance and

not to to focus on that so much. I will leave it aside during the tournaments and perhaps afterwards, you know, started to to read or to write, but during the events, I will try to stay away and gave a very last thing. It's something we actually have in common. And I just would like you to describe, maybe in a few sentences, what it was like for you to work with him, because we had the same coult At at at

one point uncil him in it. And that's where I was trying to do as many things as similar as you and to me, he was a very special person and it's uh, maybe something would great memories from my heel. Um, I was very young when I started with him, and I was eighteen or yeah, more or less. Um. I remember his way of working, you know, very um like like focus. He had a a way of training that he will Yeah, a system of training you know, like like very systematic, you know, and uh and and and

I always remember that. Um. He was very organized and discipline, discipline exactly, that's the world, very discipline. Fun. I had a lot of fun with him also of the court. It was nice. This was such a pleasure for me because for finding that, I'm a really appreciate it. Thank you so much. Thank you. You have been listening to the Real DNA with Danielle Hunter of COVAL. Don't forget to subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcast from.