Nadia Podoroska She usually makes headlines for her tennis, which led her to be 36 in the world and semifinalist at Roland Garros in 2020, and which today sees her return to the circuit after suffering a serious injury that forced her to step away from the courts. .
Today, however, the 25-year-old Rosario returns to the front page thanks to a statement made public through her social networks: she is dating Guillermina Nayahe is also a tennis player and a member of the Argentine team that competed this year for the Billie Jean King Cup.
About the legendary Billie Kean KingIt was a message from the 79-year-old former tennis player on Twitter that gave rise to Nadia’s “announcement”. The Californian, considered not only one of the best tennis players but also one of the best athletes in all of history, reissued a note in which he emphasized Podoroska’s “courage” to live life in an “authentic” way. In that newspaper article, from the site Women’s tennis blogit is said that Nadia is having an affair with Guillermina, and how love was born between them.
“Congratulations to WTA player Nadia Podoroska on her announcement. Living authentically takes a lot of courage but it is worth doing.“, wrote BJK, who has always been involved in the struggle for gender equality and gay pride.
Argentina thanked Billie Jean King’s message and also retweeted it on her personal account: “Thank you very much BJK. I respect you for everything you represent to us. You are an example in the struggle for equality in sport and beyond sport, “she wrote. And both texts were accompanied by the emoji with the LGBT flag.
The aforementioned blog tells a bit like the love story between Nadia and Guillermina, echoing a publication by another specialized medium, Clay. There it was Rosario who told, in a recent interview, that the love story was born last year, in this phase that she kept away from tennis, with anxiety but contained by the love and friendship of the company.
“From September to December I was able to be in Argentina with my parents,” said Nadia en Clay. And he added: “That affection and that positive energy of staying at home helped me a lot. Then I went to Spain, it was fine because it seemed like it would be a short time before I could compete again. When I found out it would be. longer, my mother was able to visit me. So my girlfriend came to see me. That’s how it started happening“.
They then asked her if she was engaged in any kind of activism and Nadia was sincere. “The truth is, I don’t carry any flags, not because I don’t want to or don’t like it. I love socially engaged people but I don’t think I have the strength or the time yet. I experienced a revolution in my life after Roland Garros 2020, which generated a lot of movement, a lot of media exposure, so I’m a little cautious. The life I have in tennis takes a long time, so maybe I’ll leave it for the future, “said the tennis player, always a low-key cultist.
The post with which Nadia opened the doors to her intimacy was on the occasion of Guillermina’s 26th birthday: “Today I celebrate you from afar but I feel you by my side every day of my life”, she wrote.
The moving story of Guillermina
As a professional tennis player, Guillermina came to occupy position 533 in 2020 and is part of the Argentine team. She was born in Chacabuco, province of Buenos Aires, and is the penultimate of six brothers from a middle-class family consisting of a farmer and a furniture restorer.
Last year Guille was part of “Intimate Worlds”, a section of Clarín in which the protagonist tells firsthand some personal experiences that have marked his life. In her case, it was an ailment that she suffered from as a child and that she haunted her throughout her adolescence, when she began to approach the world of tennis.
“Yes, between the ages of 2 and 7 I could have died at any time. In fact, it could have happened for no reason never known, because my long-awaited odyssey is still a rare find in the medical literature and, furthermore, something difficult to cure “, says Guillermina in one of her paragraphs.
And in another part of her moving story, she remembers the odyssey of leaving Chacabuco, her country in the province of Buenos Aires, to be admitted to the Italian Hospital in the city of Buenos Aires.
“I was hospitalized there for 8 months. My parents say it was torture. They dilated my pylorus and, with a vacuum pump, pulled out small pieces of my stomach to study. The manipulation of my body to maintain it. in life it happened literally without anesthesia “What I ate was not going anywhere, because my small intestine was not absorbed. Without nutrients, my teeth and hair fell out. My little legs were two toothpicks and the doctors photographed my belly to show it in future research. Dr. Daniel D. “Agostino said there were then a handful of cases in the world, with a high mortality rate,” wrote Guillermina.
A Boca supporter and a great football fan, she ended up choosing tennis once she managed to overcome the trauma caused by the fight against her illness.
“I’m a tennis player because I’m passionate about the game. And the game is synonymous with childhood, the one that stole my punctures, tears and gray hospital corridors. See if I don’t feel like playing!” Guille closes his story.
Source: Clarin
