Exclusive - 'I feel young and the same and crazy' - Life begins at 30 for 'positive' Karolina Pliskova

Karolina Pliskova was so not looking forward to turning 30, that she spent the year leading up to it fretting over the idea that her 20s were coming to an end. “I hate it,” she tells me in Rome, bursting into laughter when I asked how she felt about joining the 30+ club. Ad/> “But I don’t feel like 30.

But it’s just there. So many people actually remind me about that. US Open women'I wouldn't call myself the favourite' — Sakkari faces Raducanu in semis09/09/2021 AT 08:10 “Even last year when I was still 29, now I regret it so much because I was already thinking like it was 30.

“Now I know it was very different. But I feel young and I still feel the same and crazy. “As long as I’m feeling good and young in my mind, then that’s important.” The Czech world No.

6 missed the first two months of this season due to a freak accident in the gym that resulted in a broken arm. Since she returned to action at Indian Wells two months ago, results haven’t really gone her way, but Pliskova is feeling positive and is taking it all in her stride. “I think as long as the body feels well and physically you feel well, I think you can really play, I don’t want to say five more years because I don’t know what’s going to happen in five years, but I feel good so I’m not even thinking about stopping, if the body holds,” said the two-time Grand Slam finalist.