Even if the contours of the 2021 tennis recovery are not yet officially known, the preparation is in full swing. Including for Kirsten Flipkens who has just relaunched the “machine” under sunny Dubai. The soon-to-35-year-old Campinoise, 86th in the world, still does not dream of hanging her racket on the nail, and it is certainly not the pandemic that will have her skin.
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Shis slightly tanned face betrays a part of winter spent elsewhere than in the cold and humid latitudes of his town of Geel. Kirsten Flipkens returns from three weeks in sunny Dubai, where she launched her preparation for the 2021 season. And where she has even already played a first tournament ($ 100,000) for form. Back in Belgium for two unexpected weeks (the whole circuit should have taken the direction of the Antipodes during this period, if the Australian Open had not been postponed for three weeks), she took stock of the current situation. and on his aspirations in 2021, the year of his 35th birthday …
Kirsten, it’s original to launch her preparation with a tournament in Dubai (Editor’s note: she was beaten in eighth by Heather Watson) in December…
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