Bouzkova speaks about off-season trip to Alaska

Marie Bouzkova has recently won the 2020 Karen Krantzcke Sportsmanship Award and she also traveled to Alaska to enjoy some time off the court.

The 22-years-old Czech player ended the 2020 season as no. 52 in the WTA Rankings and will want to break back into Top 50 in 2021. Now, she enjoyed some time in Alaska as she said to the WTATennis.com.

"I’ve always wanted to visit Alaska because I love nature. I was just never brave enough to even think about making the trip. Maybe because this year was so weird, after the last tournament, I decided to do something I would normally ever do. I even went alone, so my parents needed a minute to process that I was taking this big trip on my own," Bouzkova said.

"They supported me and I actually had a really great time. It was relaxing, but every day I did at least two activities. For the first day, I hiked about eight miles and the next day we did another three miles along a glacier. We visited the ice museum and did some sight-seeing on a boat. It was busy, but in a different way."

"I spent a full four days hiking and exploring, and on the fifth day, we took a 12-hour train ride from Fairbanks to Anchorage. It took us through Denali National Park and Mt. McKinley, or rather, Denali. Every day I was tours with different people, which was nice because I got to be around people outside of tennis and spend the day with them. We would share a van, and when we would introduce ourselves, I would say I played tennis. They would ask if I played professionally, about my ranking, and two of them knew me from watching tennis and told me they’d seen me play on TV!"