{"id":302214,"date":"2025-10-14T08:56:23","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T08:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/302214\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T08:56:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T08:56:23","slug":"sebastian-korda-opens-up-on-tough-period-hopefully-it-is-past-me-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/302214\/","title":{"rendered":"Sebastian Korda opens up on tough period: ‘Hopefully it is past me now’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sebastian Korda<\/a><\/strong> beat Alexei Popyrin in the first round of the BNP Paribas Nordic Open, and after the match, Bolavip<\/strong> spoke to the American, who opened up about a tough period he has gone through.<\/p>\n

Korda has been dealing with a lot of injuries<\/strong> over the past year, and the former world No. 15 has dropped drastically in the rankings. The American revealed that he wasn\u2019t practicing at all before he took a break from tennis following the French Open.<\/p>\n

Despite the tough period, Korda produced a very high level on Monday against Popyrin, and the American was happy with the win when we talked to him immediately after the match.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tough match against \u2018tricky\u2019 Popyrin<\/p>\n

Popyrin is a former Masters 1000 winner, and the Australian always seems to be a tricky opponent, which Korda also mentioned after the match.<\/p>\n

\"Sebastian<\/p>\n

Sebastian Korda trying to reach a ball.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was very tough. It is always tough to play Popyrin. We have played three times and the last time we played was in a semi of a Masters 1000, and he is just an extremely highly skilled tennis<\/a> player<\/strong>,\u201d Korda told Bolavip after the match.<\/p>\n

\"How<\/p>\n

see also<\/p>\n

How much prize money do Grand Slam winners get? A breakdown by tournament<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cHe has an incredible serve, he is a good mover and has a good forehand. It was very tricky and I was lucky at some moments. I served horrendously. It\u2019s pretty tough when you don\u2019t have a first serve, but I am happy.<\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n

Korda admits he didn\u2019t train for a long period<\/p>\n

The former world No. 15 took almost three months off<\/strong> after the French Open this year, as he had struggled a lot with injuries. Korda now admits that he didn\u2019t train at all<\/strong> during the entire year leading up to the French Open.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am feeling pretty good,\u201d<\/strong> he said. \u201cI have had a lot of injuries, but now its more mental than anything<\/strong>. It\u2019s about starting up the machine again and trying to win some ugly matches.\u201d<\/p>\n

Korda makes it clear that he is still motivated to improve. However, it has been very tough off the court in 2025: \u201cI think the motivation is still there, more so just getting down on yourself all the time.<\/strong> That hurts a little bit but I have definitely gone through a lot of different emotions in the last year<\/strong>, but I am definitely motivated and I want to keep playing and hopefully raise my level.<\/p>\n

\"Tennis<\/p>\n

see also<\/p>\n

Tennis rankings explained: ATP, WTA and points system<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cI mean.. Practicing\u2026 Honestly, before I took those months off, honestly I didn\u2019t practice the whole year<\/strong>. It has been like an hour on the court every single day, no fitness really. I was not feeling great, it was definitely not a good feeling. Hopefully it is past me now.<\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n

Korda faces either Kamil Majchrzak or Filip Misolic in the second round in Stockholm, where Bolavip also interviewed Casper Ruud<\/a> this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sebastian Korda beat Alexei Popyrin in the first round of the BNP Paribas Nordic Open, and after the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":302215,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[102722,62,1464,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-302214","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sebastian-korda","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-tennis","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115371690606382265","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}