“The happiness in tennis lasts five seconds: after winning it’s time to say goodbye to the net and the people. I have reasons to say this because it has happened to me so many times: win and play the next day. You can’t say: ‘Mom, I beat 20th in the world, I’m happy’. If you do it the next day they’ll knock you out 6-0 and 6-0. There is no celebration because the body feels it and remains in permanent tension until the end of the tournament … “One of the most thoughtful (and intelligent) Argentine tennis players when it came to talking and saying interesting things opened his mouth and said more or less those words in the November 2021.
A month earlier he had lost on his Moscow debut to Spanish Pedro Martínez (left after the first set) when he decided to end his career. Between an annoying knee injury and his wife’s pregnancy (Arianna was born in July), Guido Pella decided it was time to stop. But the flame did not go out. And at the age of 32 he decided to make one last effort. First he called the manager who knows him best and Fabián Blengino accepted the call. After he was finally convinced, he called yet another number and the Uruguayan Diego Pérez, director of the tournament, assured him a wild card to face the challenger from Montevideo on Monday. He will do it without ranking but with the illusions of having a racket in hand again.
Not just because of his way of expressing himself, Pella is not just another character in the Argentine tennis world. It’s just that he will never be because he was part of the team that won the historic Davis Cup in 2016. There he remained in bronze forever, although he also states that “in your career you feel that collapses last for years and that is why this is the case. It’s important to cling to what makes you feel good. If I like to drink two glasses of water before going to train, even if it’s useless, after all it works for me. Those little things build confidence because the circuit is a meat grinder: it is played every week and it’s you and the rival; there is no one else “.
Pella is back. He missed him. In all senses.
Source: Clarin
