Speaker 1: M hm Hi everyone, the new season of the Real
Speaker 1: DNA Podcast is here, which I'm super excited about. I
Speaker 1: hope you will enjoy it as much as I did
Speaker 1: while recording them with all my precious guests. As usual,
Speaker 1: if there is anything specific you would like me to
Speaker 1: discuss with my guests, just drop me a message under
Speaker 1: my Instagram post, please and I will try to include
Speaker 1: them in my conversation as much as I can. Well
Speaker 1: have fun listening and do let me know any feedback
Speaker 1: you might have. Okay, Okay, I have to say, um,
Speaker 1: this is just exciting for the fans as it is
Speaker 1: for me because, like I told you a couple of
Speaker 1: days ago, it is the first time I got a
Speaker 1: chance to meet you in person. And I can't tell
Speaker 1: you what a fan I've been of your career and
Speaker 1: everything you've done for the tennis So thank you for that,
Speaker 1: I know your career. Also for me, it is a
Speaker 1: pleasure to to meet you, to see you your adorable,
Speaker 1: So thank you. Know. So I go straight to the point. Okay,
Speaker 1: one on earth you do we need to know? All
Speaker 1: the girls in the world need to know the recipe. No,
Speaker 1: there there is no secret. I think if you have
Speaker 1: a good nutrition, and you work out and uh and
Speaker 1: most importantly, I think you have to be happy, you know,
Speaker 1: from the insight, just follow the things you you like
Speaker 1: to do. I think that's that's the best of the
Speaker 1: most important thing, you know, just to to follow what
Speaker 1: you like to do and be happy. So when you
Speaker 1: say work out, do you stick more to the cardio
Speaker 1: weights or what do you like to do? These days?
Speaker 1: I did the several things. When I stopped playing, I
Speaker 1: I did a I started to run a lot, a lot,
Speaker 1: like three hours, four hours. And then I got into
Speaker 1: the bicycle. I heard that, so I'm riding the bike. Um,
Speaker 1: and I did the two the fronts just a few
Speaker 1: stage the h five stages. Okay, that's the secret. Anyone
Speaker 1: to the front stages. You look like they exact no, no, no, yeah.
Speaker 1: And then I like to work out. I like to
Speaker 1: go to the gym, you know, exercises. I mix it
Speaker 1: up with doing legs, kettle bus and nutritions. Nutrition. Um,
Speaker 1: I I eat mostly. I tried to have a complete
Speaker 1: you know, nutritional you know, like try to cover everything,
Speaker 1: so protein, cargo, hydrates, vegetables, fruits. So okay, I do that,
Speaker 1: you know, I obviously have my my temptations, which I
Speaker 1: love ice creams, so I could same every single day. Okay,
Speaker 1: I like chocolate and we do. Though people think we
Speaker 1: have to be on some crazy diets to look good,
Speaker 1: but no, no, no, no way no. A Dias confirmed
Speaker 1: you need to please yourself. It's important also, so you
Speaker 1: have to find a balance. But if you eat, you know,
Speaker 1: mainly your foundation, your base is healthy, you know, like
Speaker 1: you cover pretty much everything, then you will be okay,
Speaker 1: definitely okay. Now we know recently started to play tennis again,
Speaker 1: which I think all the fans around the world are
Speaker 1: supri happy about. First of all, what made you decide
Speaker 1: to to give it a go again, I don't know,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure. But no, um, actually I don't play
Speaker 1: much tennis usually no, I work out, but I never
Speaker 1: played tennis. Maybe in a social way with friends once
Speaker 1: in a while. And we started to see each other
Speaker 1: a lot. With Cicella, my partner, we started to play
Speaker 1: paddle tennis together in Argentina. So um, so I think
Speaker 1: they saw us playing and they invited us to to
Speaker 1: come here and uh yeah we we We discussed it
Speaker 1: with and he said, well, I would be happy to
Speaker 1: play and s Okay, I never played before, but yeah,
Speaker 1: what do we give better? Try? You know? And how
Speaker 1: was the experience so far? Yeah, very nervous every single day.
Speaker 1: Today we were playing and we were like, I can't breathe.
Speaker 1: I can't breathe. You almost get a panic. Well, last
Speaker 1: night I was a literal bit like that, like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, I can't believe I'm feeling this now, you know.
Speaker 1: Uh no, But the best part is just to see
Speaker 1: all of you. You know, it's just too I haven't
Speaker 1: seen you know, all the tennis family for such a
Speaker 1: long time, and I'm so happy to to talk and
Speaker 1: to see each other. Um, and that's the most fun,
Speaker 1: being honest. The night before the mansion, do you think like, Okay,
Speaker 1: what am I gonna eat? What am I gonna dress? It?
Speaker 1: It comes to thought. But then you're like, okay, no, no,
Speaker 1: I mean I don't. I don't do that for the match,
Speaker 1: but I do it as a lifestyle, you know, to
Speaker 1: maintain you know, my life. But the crazy superstitious you keep, no,
Speaker 1: well you mean that the super no, no, I don't
Speaker 1: do to be attached to that because because to a
Speaker 1: bit crazy no, no, no, I think we want to
Speaker 1: be talking somewhere else. Yes, exactly, exactly, so better not okay, um,
Speaker 1: now let's go a little bit back. Obviously, your parful
Speaker 1: was the thing that I noticed with your career when
Speaker 1: I was growing up. It's like, oh my god, how
Speaker 1: do you do? Did you have incredible results on the court?
Speaker 1: How did you find the time to actually create this
Speaker 1: and be part of this, which, as we know, when
Speaker 1: you play tennis, you have to focus on this. Actually
Speaker 1: I started to work with the perfume. It was Perfume brand,
Speaker 1: family brand that has asked me to to have my
Speaker 1: own perfume. I was I remember sixteen, seventeen years old,
Speaker 1: and you know at that time you're not so much
Speaker 1: into perfumes, and so it's like I started to discover
Speaker 1: a new world. And I remember them sending me the
Speaker 1: different smells, the packaging, you know, to choose to pick
Speaker 1: which one I liked. And it was actually fun because
Speaker 1: you know how it is when you are playing, you're
Speaker 1: like in a bubble. You don't do too many other things.
Speaker 1: So so this was like a nice destruction. You know,
Speaker 1: I will get to the hotel, starts smelling the perfumes,
Speaker 1: and and so actually I I like it. I mean
Speaker 1: it's a it's a huge different world talking about the destructions. UM,
Speaker 1: what would you advise any successful, good looking, young female athletes.
Speaker 1: We talk about this mental wellness a lot of these days.
Speaker 1: What helped you to find that balance between having all
Speaker 1: the attention of the world on your shoulders, but at
Speaker 1: the same time keep kind of a normal life. I
Speaker 1: think it's it's about funding a balance. I think, UM,
Speaker 1: you have to not forget that your person first of all,
Speaker 1: and to keep doing the things that you like to do,
Speaker 1: you know, if it is I don't know, reading, UM,
Speaker 1: I don't know, listening to music, or or or we
Speaker 1: even study. UM, I think you should not stop doing
Speaker 1: those things. I think you should put some time into
Speaker 1: that to to find the balance. Because tennis takes it
Speaker 1: takes about, you know, twenty four hours a day, you know,
Speaker 1: so it's important that you find a balancing. You put
Speaker 1: some time to yourself, you know, in the things you
Speaker 1: like to do. UM. You know, go to a concert
Speaker 1: if you like music, or go to a museum, go
Speaker 1: to a bookstore. UM. Or like I said, is to study,
Speaker 1: you know, if you continue to study. Also, it's it's
Speaker 1: nice UM. The podcast it's called The Real DNA because
Speaker 1: I feel like DNA for me, it's tennis. I think
Speaker 1: for you it's the same time, same thing. What is
Speaker 1: the biggest gift tennis has given you for your life?
Speaker 1: So many, so many I'm so um so thankful to
Speaker 1: to tennis because all the people I met, the friends
Speaker 1: I have, UM, the places I got to see, the
Speaker 1: the growth, the maturity, um, so many things, UM, the
Speaker 1: connection with people. It's uh, so many things. The upside
Speaker 1: of tennis that people maybe haven't realized that you had
Speaker 1: to deal with. UM. I think the media, the press
Speaker 1: that was that was tough. I remember in the beginning
Speaker 1: when I started to become more popular in my home
Speaker 1: country in Argentina, I would read the newspaper and maybe
Speaker 1: seeing a negative comment or something that was not based
Speaker 1: in anything you know and mean, so I was like,
Speaker 1: why did they write these things? You know? And I
Speaker 1: had to to work on that a lot, you know,
Speaker 1: to try to not not to read, not to to
Speaker 1: to listen or to get distracted with those things. So um, yeah,
Speaker 1: it took me a while. UM. And then in Argentina,
Speaker 1: you know, uh, the media could be really tough, you know,
Speaker 1: like like they want you to be number one you know,
Speaker 1: the next day, and so one day you're here and
Speaker 1: another day you're down here, you know. So it's difficult.
Speaker 1: It's something that you really have to work on. What
Speaker 1: would you advise the young athletes out there with the
Speaker 1: social media now, because back in the day maybe you
Speaker 1: can kind of find a distance and hide away for it.
Speaker 1: Now not really. I'm so thankful that we have media
Speaker 1: exactly exactly because this stays is um the communication is
Speaker 1: so much from everywhere, and you see so many negative comments,
Speaker 1: and it's very hard not to read them. You know,
Speaker 1: you always get caught in those comments. And how do
Speaker 1: you deal with it? You know, I see it. I
Speaker 1: see it with the players today. UM. So I don't
Speaker 1: know really how how do you do it? But I
Speaker 1: would again, I will try to find a balance and
Speaker 1: not to to focus on that so much. I will
Speaker 1: leave it aside during the tournaments and perhaps afterwards, you know,
Speaker 1: started to to read or to write, but during the events,
Speaker 1: I will try to stay away and gave a very
Speaker 1: last thing. It's something we actually have in common. And
Speaker 1: I just would like you to describe, maybe in a
Speaker 1: few sentences, what it was like for you to work
Speaker 1: with him, because we had the same coult At at at
Speaker 1: one point uncil him in it. And that's where I
Speaker 1: was trying to do as many things as similar as
Speaker 1: you and to me, he was a very special person
Speaker 1: and it's uh, maybe something would great memories from my heel. Um,
Speaker 1: I was very young when I started with him, and
Speaker 1: I was eighteen or yeah, more or less. Um. I
Speaker 1: remember his way of working, you know, very um like
Speaker 1: like focus. He had a a way of training that
Speaker 1: he will Yeah, a system of training you know, like
Speaker 1: like very systematic, you know, and uh and and and
Speaker 1: I always remember that. Um. He was very organized and discipline,
Speaker 1: discipline exactly, that's the world, very discipline. Fun. I had
Speaker 1: a lot of fun with him also of the court.
Speaker 1: It was nice. This was such a pleasure for me
Speaker 1: because for finding that, I'm a really appreciate it. Thank
Speaker 1: you so much. Thank you. You have been listening to
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