The keys to the success of the new Garbiñe: Conchita Martínez, a psychologist and Nadal’s mirror

Garbiñe Muguruza has made history by beating Anett Kontaveit in the final of the WTA Finals, a victory that crowns her as the first Spanish teacher of all time and rounds off a magical 2021 with three titles. From the hand of Conchita Martínez he seems to have recovered his best tennis, which led him to be number one in the world in 2017 and to win two Grand Slams (Roland Garros 2016 and Wimbledon 2017).

Conchita is undoubtedly one of the great keys to the success of Muguruza, but not the only one. Behind the Spanish there is a huge work group that has helped her find that tranquility and that calm that she so badly needed. His mental fragility was one of his weak points and a little over a year ago a psychologist, that helps you work to improve that fragility and thus be able to achieve your best tennis. His role model is Rafa Nadal, a true Spanish tennis legend and one of the strongest tennis players on a mental level.

The Spanish tennis player had an appointment with history and she did not fail, in fact she did not hesitate and won in two sets. It was not easy because in front I had a Contact knife who had been on a roll, had only lost one game in the last 14 games and it was precisely against Garbiñe herself. Conchita’s pupil also prevailed in two sets in the group stage match to end her 12-match winning streak.

Muguruza came at a good time after win in chicago early October. It was his second title of the season as he had previously won the Dubai WTA 1000 in March. With this there are already three trophies he has won the teacher Garbiñe, the best result of her career to date, in terms of titles. So far his record number was two in 2017 when he won Wimbledon and Cincinnati.

Mexico has a special color

Since he was crowned number one in the world in 2017, he had only won two tournaments, both at the Torne de Monterrey in 2018 and 2019. Two years later he has once again lifted a title in Mexican territory. “I don’t know what Mexico has that makes me excited”, the player herself recognized after writing her name in the history books once more. Mexico has a special color. There he has already won three tournaments in the last four years.

Garbiñe It had been two years in which he had not finished finding regularity in his game. At the end of 2019 he decided to return with Conchita Martínez, with whom he had achieved so many successes at his command. Since then he has worked hard day after day to get back to the top. He has plenty of tennis to be number one as he has shown in this Teachers Cup but it lacked regularity and stability, something that it seems that it has finally found.

The 2021 started with a final at the Yarra Valley Classic in Melbourne, a pre-Australian Open tournament, where she would fall to world number one Ashleigh Barty. In March he reached his second final of the course in Doha where he would yield to Petra Kvitova. However, Garbiñe did not give up and kept trying until he succeeded. The third time was the charm. The Spanish tennis player did not collapse far from it and would win her first tournament a week later in Dubai Already in October he won Chicago and now it has risen with the WTA Finals where it went from less to more to put the finishing touch to a historic season and return to the top 3 of the ranking.