MELBOURNE, Australia — Russia-born Australian tennis participant Daria Kasatkina says she’s ending the season early for the sake of her psychological wellbeing after hitting “breaking level” on tour.
The Nineteenth-ranked Kasatkina, a French Open semifinalist in 2022, stated Monday she has been left drained by the fixed journey on the tour schedule, a tense course of to achieve everlasting residency in Australia, and being unable to see her mother and father.
Kasatkina, who’s engaged to determine skating Olympic medallist Natalia Zabiiako, advised the Occasions of London in 2023 that she will be able to’t return to Russia “as a homosexual one that opposes the struggle” in Ukraine.
“Fact is, I’ve hit a wall and may’t proceed. I want a break. A break from the monotonous each day grind of life on the tour, the suitcases, the outcomes, the stress, the identical faces (sorry, women), the whole lot that comes with this life,” Kasatkina wrote on Instagram.
“The schedule is an excessive amount of, mentally and emotionally I’m at breaking level and sadly, I’m not alone.”
She added she plans to return in 2026 “energized and able to rock”.
Kasatkina stated she had been “removed from fantastic for a very long time” and her outcomes on court docket had suffered whereas she “saved a lid” on how she felt for concern of seeming ungrateful.
She’s the newest in a sequence of gamers together with Elina Svitolina and Beatriz Haddad Maia who’ve opted to finish their seasons early for additional relaxation.
Kasatkina’s final match on tour was a straight-set loss to Sonay Kartal within the second spherical of the China Open on Sept. 27 and her final tour title was on the Ningbo Open in Oct. 2024.
