【東レPPO】B・ベンチッチが大会初制覇！　「味噌スープが最高！」日本食が優勝の活力に！　『東レパンパシフィックオープンテニス』優勝インタビュー

Yeah, thanks so much. I’m really really happy. Um I’m relieved. Um yeah, it was a very tough week uh for me for sure. Um very physical and I’m super happy to finally win in Tokyo. I feel like it’s always um coming to like a full circle moment. It’s been like the start of my career here kind of and then like having success here all over again is is really nice. Yeah, like I said in my Encord interview, it’s a big honor for me to be mentioned amongst these big names and to also be able to win this trophy. It’s very nice. It means a lot to me. And also, I think um yeah, like I can when I’m warming up, you know, there was a a video and showing all the champions and I’m like, “Oh, it would be so nice if I could be also one of them.” So, um yeah, it’s very very nice for me. Well, I think I knew that I was maybe physically not going to be able to play such a physical match, so I tried to be more aggressive today. Um, I think Linda has a big game with the big power shots. Um, so sometimes I have to stay in the point, but sometimes I have to be aggressive when I can. I think I was very lucky today. My ser worked very good. Um, which helped me for sure today. Yeah, I’m surprised. Um, I definitely didn’t expect it to go this fast and this well. Um, I’m very grateful. Um, I think it was hard work to come back and I think we did a great job. Um, I’m really enjoying my time back on the tour and um, yeah, I think it’s showing in the results. I’m I couldn’t be more happy and I’m definitely more surprised than this was definitely not planned. Yeah, I um did my best yesterday to recover as much as I can. I was feeling very exhausted and um yeah, then we were just um in the hotel trying to lie down, make some stretching. We had great Japanese food yesterday, miso soup and sushi. But miso soup, I swear it’s great like for recovery. Um it’s helped me a lot. I think I felt so much better after. Um, and this morning of course I felt very tired but um, and you know you have some pains and niggles but I think when you go on the courts you have like the adrenaline and you want to fight. So I think your mind just convinces your body that now it’s time to ignore everything and just fight. Um, I think when I came back I just wanted to see if I can play on the same level again. um I started to play smaller tournaments and I just wanted to see if you know it’s been changed when I was one year out um if it’s different and I felt also in Australia I felt immediately I can compete again with the best and then I think after Australia I got a confidence again um also Abu Dhabi um and then I think I played some good matches against the top players and to to see that I can be at this level again and Uh I think it’s for sure it’s hard work as well, but I think it’s a lot of self-belief and a lot of mental um belief as well um during the matches that you can compete and um I’m really happy to like have this confirmation with myself that I’m able to um yeah try to even beat my my best ranking before. Um well, it’s difficult to say. I didn’t even know if I’m going to come back. Like of course that was always the plan but you never know like before birth or after shortly after birth how you’re feeling and how everything is going. Um I think it was just a decision that I wanted to you know I was able to do. So after that the plan was very slowly just to go back to moving my body and get back to like training. Um but everything the process was very slow and very step by step. Um my husband who’s my uh fitness trainer, he of course help a lot. He knows exactly what exercises to make, which exercises to avoid. And um yeah, I think it just um yeah, came like very naturally and I had to listen a lot to my own body, what’s possible and what’s not.

国内最高峰の女子テニス大会『東レパンパシフィックオープンテニストーナメント 2025』（10月18日～26日、有明テニスの森公園）の女子シングルス決勝が26日に行われ、世界ランク13位のベリンダ・ベンチッチ（スイス）がリンダ・ノスコバ（チェコ）を6－2、6－3のストレートで下し、念願の大会初優勝を果たした。

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