Paula Ormaechea and her father, Marcelo. instagram photo
Paula Ormaechea, former number 1 from Argentina in the WTA tennis rankings, this Sunday he posted a moving letter on his social networks. The santafesina has responded to the criticisms for the sports of her present and he opened his heart to show the dark side of an athlete’s career.
In his case, the impact of the death of his father and like her, four months later, he’s still trying “find meaning and enjoy life”.
Ormaechea, 29, is one of the Argentines who have animated the women’s tennis circuit in the last decade. In October 2013, at the age of 21, she reached the position 59 of the WTA rankings, the best record of his career. In those years she was a finalist in a WTA 250 tournament in Colombia, where she lost to Serbian Jelena Jankovic, then she top 20 and then number 1 in the world.
Today Ormaechea is in location 162, just lost in the first round of an ITF W60 tournament in Rome and this year fell in the early qualifying rounds at Roland Garros and Wimbledon Grand Slams. Her poor performance has surprised many tennis fans, but her sporting performance is a secondary concern in her personal life, as she explained in her letter.
Paula Ormaechea and her father, Marcelo. instagram photo
“Today is 4 months, 4 months of most horrible day I had to live to date “, begins the text that he spread on his Twitter and Instagram accounts and which he presented as “Beyond and out”.
“I just want to ask a little more respectbecause when they talk about Paula, the one who plays tennis, they talk about me, about me before anything else. I am a simple person and like all of you I have feelings“, continues Ormaechea, based in Italy, where in 2018 she married volleyball player Luciano De Cecco.
“I am not a machine, I’m trying to figure out how to get this outwith the greatest pain you can have “, adds the tennis player, who accompanied her message with a photo of her father and three sisters.
Paula Ormaechea with her father, Marcelo, and her two sisters.
“Only those who have experienced a similar situation will know and understand what it means to live grieve for the loss of a father. I lost mine at any moment, without him having any health problems or anything that had announced his departure in advance. There was no way to ‘say goodbye’just a phone call with that news, “explained the death.
Marcelo (59 years old) was a rwell-known former footballer from the local league of Reconquista, the city north of Santa Fe where Gabriel Batistuta also grew up. He lived in Sunchales, had frequented the family kiosk and, after marrying Mirna, had dedicated himself to the promotion of his three daughters: Paula, Sofía and Valentina.
He helped Paula achieve her tennis dream. She mirrored her paternal devotion to her in her official WTA profile of her: “The person he most admires is his father, Marceloboth for his mentality and for his vision of life ”.
According to the local newspaper Recapture todayMarcelo fell ill on Sunday morning, March 20. He was treated at the Sunchales hospital. He has returned home. In the afternoon he felt sick again. He asked to go back to the hospital. But, without answers, they found him died in his bed at night after suffering a aneurysm.
Paula Ormaechea and her father: “The lights have gone out, they are without too much direction”
The tennis player he was in Colombia when his father died. She took a flight and was present at Marcelo’s last farewell. Today, four months later, he continues to deal with the emptiness that the loss has left him: “I fall every day, I get up, sometimes I laugh, cry a lot and become just as desperate because sometimes it seems that nothing happens anymore. “.
Paula Ormaechea had already gone through a sports crisis, caused by an injury and a long convalescence after surgery.
“In recent years as a person I have had to experience everything, very beautiful things and others a little less. It cost me a lot, but I kept going until at some point something changed and I was able to start enjoying the sport I love so much. a lot, “he said of those ups and downs.
However, a new blow came in March. “So it was, up to 4 months ago. From that day the house of cards I was building fell apart, the lights went out and here I am without much direction. There is no way, no way, no time, nothing is marked. He is one who walks trying not to stop completely because maybe it’s even worse.
After explaining his situation and priorities, Ormaechea also referred to the criticisms for his level. “Amidst all this tennis game, a super king against mental sportthat perhaps few understand how important it is to be in emotional balance to be able to perform at a high level, “he said of requests.
“I appreciate that you guys worry that I’m not going to win a game. And it’s not that I’m in bad shape or anything, I’m just looking for a new meaning and enjoy life. Tennis is a sport and, as important as it is in my life, it is not not the only thing, not everything for meOrmechea concluded.
Ormaechea: “My longest and most beautiful moment of this life”
Since Marcelo’s death, Paula Ormaechea has shared on her Instagram account portraits and mementos of his father. “We are here to have fun, not long. My longest and most beautiful moment of this life,” he wrote after his father’s death. Both are seen hugging, smiling, after a tennis match.
A month later, she deepened her feelings and those of almost all the children. “my biggest fear I always thought about what I would do the day my parents left, what it would be like. Never, not even in the worst of dreams I couldn’t even imagine that the person with the most energy and will to live would be extinguished at any moment, so soon. “
And he concluded: “Your absence is very strongand 28 days ago the void became a hole that will never be filled. I miss you every minute, dad. “.
also went up a video in which he sees himself happy, going to greet his father, in one of the many matches that awaited him after a game, on the sidelines.
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Source: Clarin
