As Danielle Collins readies to play her third semifinal in four tournaments played over the past eight weeks, what does she want people to remember about her tennis career?
“I think it’s important for me to feel like, ‘OK, I got everything I could out of myself as an athlete, and end on a positive note,’ rather than being like, ‘Oh, God, what happened?’ That’s just how I want to go down,” Collins said Wednesday after beating former World No.1 Victoria Azarenka in straight sets in the quarterfinals of the Internazionali BNL d’Italia.
Collins will face No.2 Aryna Sabalenka on Thursday in a rematch of their fourth-round match from the Mutua Madrid Open, bidding to reach her second career WTA 1000 final.
But the American is taking away as much as she’s giving from her farewell tour after first revealing her intentions following defeat to Iga Swiatek at the Australian Open.
The numbers speak for themselves: After…
