{"id":239255,"date":"2025-07-05T05:04:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T05:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/239255\/"},"modified":"2025-07-05T05:04:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T05:04:09","slug":"wimbledon-2025-andrey-rublev-wants-to-win-or-lose-in-the-right-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/239255\/","title":{"rendered":"Wimbledon 2025: Andrey Rublev wants to win or lose ‘in the right way’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rublev has never gone beyond a quarter-final of a Grand Slam, losing 10 times at this stage.<\/p>\n

But in the context of his mental battles, this time last year at the All England Club marked a particular low point. He went out in the first round and made headlines for repeatedly smashing his racquet into his leg in frustration<\/a>.<\/p>\n

That was just one incident of many like it.<\/p>\n

Last year he was disqualified from the Dubai Tennis Championships for screaming in the face of a line judge<\/a> following a disputed call in the semi-final against Alexander Bublik, losing all his prize money and ranking points for the week.<\/p>\n

That decision was later overturned with points and money reinstated<\/a>, but the persistent outbursts sparked concern among peers and fans.<\/p>\n

At the Paris Masters he drew blood again from smashing his racquet into his knee.<\/p>\n

Rublev has cited last year’s SW19 moment when he knew things needed to change and has since opened up about his mental health struggles.<\/p>\n

“I would say it was not dealing with the issue of losing or not losing, it was not the issue even of tennis,” he revealed.<\/p>\n

“I was just dealing with myself, just to face myself, to stop running away from myself and I was just dealing with that. What’s happening inside of me, why I feel this, why I feel that, why I am doing this?”<\/p>\n

Away from the court, Rublev is a popular character on the Tour. He has frequently expressed his opposition to the war in Ukraine, while he also set up a clothing brand, which he wears for his matches, where all profits are used to help children with critical illnesses.<\/p>\n

But being kinder to himself has been an issue and working more frequently with a psychologist, combined with the addition of Safin to his coaching set-up, proved crucial.<\/p>\n

“Marat is a huge help to me. He has given some advice and said some things, but he does it not in a soft way,” explained Rublev.<\/p>\n

“He’s super strict – he gives you the heavy truth.”<\/p>\n

Safin, a former world number one and winner of the US Open and Australian Open, was notorious for his temper, estimating he smashed 700 racquets in his career.<\/p>\n

That level of passion, and sheer yearning to succeed, which the two share is never going to be stamped out all together.<\/p>\n

But while Rublev has yet to win a Tour title this season, he showed improved control over his emotions at the Doha Open by winning three consecutive three-set matches, despite dropping the second set in all three and winning dramatic final-set tie-breaks in two of them.<\/p>\n

“I know that everything is connected. If you feel some problems with yourself, it will affect everything,” he added.<\/p>\n

“Sooner or later you will have problems with your family, with relationships, with work, everywhere. When you have peace with yourself, then the rest takes cares of itself.”<\/p>\n

But Rublev has learned to understand it doesn’t have to all be about winning. For now at least, that is enough.<\/p>\n

“There are two options,” he said. “Try to go deeper. Or if I lose, to lose it in a mature, adult way. <\/p>\n

“That would be success as well, to lose it in the right way.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rublev has never gone beyond a quarter-final of a Grand Slam, losing 10 times at this stage. But…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239256,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4105],"tags":[79,1068,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-239255","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114798884645791059","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}