Martic looks ahead to return at Palermo Ladies Open: "To be back on the court right now is really just a privilege"

Sunday, 02 August 2020 at 17:15

Petra Martic is looking forward to being back on court when action restarts at the Palermo Ladies Open, the first WTA event since the tour was forced to stop due to Coronavirus.

Martic is top seed in Palermo and she is set to face off against Alison van Uytvanck to begin the tournament. For the Croatian, it is all about enjoying herself with no goals really set.

"It’s been so long without tennis, without competition, without the adrenaline that we all kind of love," Martic told reporters at All Access Hour. "So I was really excited to hear that Palermo and Prague will be 100 percent organized and will go on.

"So I’m just going to try to enjoy myself. To be back on the court right now is really just a privilege without thinking about any results or any goals or focused on numbers or anything else."

Martic set for US Open after Palermo and Prague

For Martic though like many others, issues with travel mean that she wants to minimise her schedule as much as possible but that she does plan on heading to the US Open.

"That was definitely the challenging part of just making your schedule because it doesn’t depend on the tournaments but more on the region you’re in.

So that’s why we decided to stay in Europe. Stay close by and not travel far if we don’t need to. That’s why we’re here and we’re going to Prague after that. I feel the cases here are not that high, so it’s obviously a bigger chance of staying healthy.

"Then we’ll go to the States. The States are maybe not doing that great but on the other hand, if we keep our bubble and if we’re going to be disciplined about it, I think we can do it well and be successful with keeping the cases low, or not having any at all.

"We have to take it day by day, we still don’t know what tournaments are going to be organized and whatnot, so we cannot look any further than that."

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