“It was bad immediately,” she recalls for Rolandgarros.com after her qualification victory in the first round against Sara Saito in Japan on Tuesday in Paris. “At the start, when we did the tests, they were like” Hey who did you play yesterday? ” I don’t remember. I did not remember. “”
Townsend, who played and lost his semi-final three days after the injury, would later discover that she was far from getting out of the woods.
“When I settled and standardized outside the world of tennis, I said to myself:” Whoa. I certainly do not feel normal “” she said, recalling symptoms that required restful insulation to reinstall her body.
“Light sensitivity, dizziness, blurred vision. It lasted almost ten days – I would have headaches all day, they would be in different places, behind my eyes and my neck, and I also had a cervical boost, so my neck and my cervical spine were all screwed up. I could not turn my head.”
Concrete cerebral was an unhappy timing for the American, which had just set up its best singles in Miami after a slow start until 2025, but it had to prioritize its health. Townsend says that once she has stopped having headache and her symptoms began to light up, she liked to be at home for a section and spend time with her son AJ and other families and friends.
“The universe was like:” Hey, we have to sit down, “says the world’s n ° 2 in duplicate. “It was something that I think it was almost a disguised blessing.”
