By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Monday January 20, 2025
After her third round win over Tunisia’s Ons Jabeur, Emma Navarro talked on court about grueling bike sessions with her father, Ben Navarro, and cited the term biking and crying. “We made up a term ‘biking and crying’ because we’d be six hours in, we’d all have tears in our eyes and just be exhausted trying to pedal up a hill,” Navarro said. “I learned a lot of toughness growing up.”
That toughness is paying dividends for the American in Melbourne. On Monday night she claimed her fourth consecutive victory in three sets defeating Russia’s Daria Kasatkina, 6-4, 5-7, 7-5. Navarro squandered three match points in the second set, but had the mental toughness to stick with the plan and finish off the No.9 seed in a heated decider.
The 23-year-old, who has now won seven consecutive deciding sets at the majors, and eight of nine overall, credits mental toughness…
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