Keys’ success is all of the extra spectacular contemplating her harm woes in 2024.
The 29-year-old missed final 12 months’s Australian Open with a shoulder harm earlier than a hamstring drawback ended her Wimbledon run within the fourth spherical.
Decided to maintain competing, Keys – on the recommendation of her coach and now husband Bjorn Fratangelo – determined to make a change.
Fratangelo satisfied her to modify her Wilson racquets for Japanese model Yonex – a swap he thought would restrict her accidents.
“I don’t know why I like this racquet, what it does, like, all of the specifics of it. I simply knew after I picked it up, it felt actually good, and that was the winner,” Keys told Bounces on Tuesday., external
And simply earlier than the pair bought married in November, Fratangelo dragged a “kicking and screaming” Keys into remodeling her service movement.
“If you’re going to rip issues aside, you may as properly rip every part aside, proper?” she stated.