The professional tennis player and coach Pepe Imazwho has been working on an emotional level with the Serbian for ten years Novak Djokovic predicted that the player has no “withdrawal limitation in perspective” and currently It is difficult to predict “how many years are left” in active service.
Pepe Imaz Ruíz (Arnedo, La Rioja, 1974) is in Ceuta this weekend to take part in “National Teacher” of the sub-12, sub-14 and junior categories held in the city and to offer a conference on “The emotional state in the competition.”
Living in Marbella (Málaga) for twenty-four years, he said in an interview with EFE that Djokovic has tennis ahead of him because the rope he left “It has always been measured by desire and enthusiasm and physical possibility, and now they are both healthy, It means that he has tremendous enthusiasm and desire to continue and physically he is very good and on an emotional level he is also feeling very good.”
In this sense, the man from La Rioja assessed that he was dealing with “a great man” with “had the gift of knowing and spending a decade by his side on a professional and personal level: andThe process he took in his life and how he treated himself and others was a reflection of his inner workings,” he said.
“I love being close to someone like Novak, he has changed a lot, he loves to grow, learn and investigate, and he does a great job on a personal level himself, which is important to those sports results because the emotional level helps.there are many things to do for better or worse and The more you get along, the longer everything will last”, was said.
Currently tennis
When making an assessment of current tennis, he commented that “as a spectacle it is growing, It has become such a classic sport that the doors are very closed to change and now the doors are open.”
On a competitive level, he indicated that the level “has increased significantly, with fifteen years with three historical figures (Nadal, Djokovic and Federer) and that gave a lot of prosperity to world tennis and, within those three, Spain had someone like Nadal who gave so much joy and so many moments of pleasure, and now appeared the another very charismatic figure. like Alcaraz, who plays at the number one level.
In the women’s section, he pointed out that “Serena Williams “She has been dominant for many years and now there is more movement in the ranking, the girls are becoming very professional and the evolution is very important.”
Pepe Imaz also shared his experience with other tennis players such as Fernando Verdasco, Santiago Giraldo, Flavia Pennetta, Daniela Hantuchova or Marcel Granollers.
“Djokovic is a very famous person, but what really fulfills me is doing it myself, by myself, and then sharing with others what has helped me so much, because, At 18 or 19 years old, I had no desire to live”he said.
On an emotional level, Imaz said that “most tennis players sufferit feels so far away, because playing something you love and doing so well is not the same as suffering from something that brings you well.”
Regarding whether this situation affects men and women equally, he said that “Men are more mental and women are more emotional, Therefore, in women, as a general rule, emotional pain is more aggressive.”
In his opinion, this situation influences the results on the slopes “because when you are calm, whatever you do, you do it better than when you are nervous, tense or distressedso when you accept the mistake you are calmer and more organized, so you can do what you do at your best level.”
He doesn’t want to recommend anything, but he points out that “treatment with more respect and more lovebeing more accepting of our flaws instead of hiding them is something that helps any person.
life experience
Pepe Imaz, who at the age of ten went to Barcelona – first with Andrés Gimeno and then with Luis Bruguera – emphasized that “children cannot be confused by the titles they have or don’t have, that is , they can’t check how they do things, but they know that for “The simple fact of existing is the most important thing there is.”
Despite being among the 400 best in the world at 18 years oldthe Riojan quit tennis at age 23 after going through some bad times, including bulimia.
“I am a tennis player with dreams, sometimes you forget yourself and yourself to focus on what you have achieved and that’s where the fears start and, as a result of the fears, comes stress, grief, anxiety, having frustrations, crying, feeling unappreciated and all that causes a lot of damage to the child, the youth and the old,” he said.
This is how the project was launched.Love and peace” in Marbella, to educate children from the perspectives of sport and being, sharing this school with Marko Djokovic: “there are men and professional players, as well as children who want to be, with whom we share our journey,” he indicated.
He commented that instilling values ”is always unnatural, the thing is to share it and whoever feels good or likes it can accept it.
“The tennis school is the second thing because, above all, we try to share with them because the priority is the person. They can give someone the most valuable diamond in the world, but, When it comes to choosing between life and the diamond, I think one hundred percent we would say life, so we shouldn’t judge ourselves so much,” he commented.
Source: La Verdad
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