‘I Can Stop Playing Tennis Now’- US Open Champion Sloane Stephens Details How Money Changed Her Perspective on Tennis

American tennis star Sloane Stephens is one of the best tennis players going around. The 29-year-old rose to prominence in 2017 when she clinched the US Open title. The former world number 3 had a mixed season so far. She reached the quarterfinals of the French Open. However, the American crashed out of the Wimbledon Championship 2022 in the first round.

Unlike superstars with lofty dreams, Stephens has accepted many times that she likes to keep it simple. Hence, even small moments of happiness give her greater joy.

Recently, in a podcast, she spoke about her feeling after looking at the prize money she won after winning the US Open.

Sloane Stephens overwhelmed with the US Open prize money

Speaking about her experience after winning the US Open 2017, the 29-year-old was very candid and accepted that the big prize money made her feel like it’s enough for her to stop playing tennis.

“When I won the US Open why I was so shocked because it was like $3.4million or something and I was like, I can stop playing tennis now. I was like, I am good. I am sad, I am like this is so gross, I was like that is so much money. Those things to me were just like, so wow, like that’s so great,” she said.

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Stephens always kept her expectations low, and that somehow has worked for the American so far

Stephens on mental health

While there’s a lot of talk about the mental health of athletes recently, Sloane Stephens has been an advocate of the same for a long time. Being a daughter of a psychologist mother, Stephens always kept it in her top priority.

In a recent interview, she revealed various techniques she uses to keep herself out of stress and healthy. The 29-year-old has the perfect balance for an athlete’s mental health.

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While it’s almost impossible for all the players to be equally successful, she definitely taught us how one can find happiness in every minor achievement of life.