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(I don't understand why it says 'The Telegraph' when it seems to be a Yahoo article, but I'm just copying what came)
Source: The Telegraph
Datd: January 5, 2019
Author: Simon Briggs
URL:
https://uk.sports.yahoo.com/news/katie-boulter-exclusive-interview-apos-080000913.html
Katie Boulter exclusive interview: 'I got to the point where I was pretty much doing nothing during the day'
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For the past week, some of tennis's best-known gladiators have been crossing swords at Perth's Hopman Cup. The exhibition event - which has mixed doubles at its heart - featured four Wimbledon champions in Roger Federer, Serena Williams, Angelique Kerber and Garbine Muguruza, plus a number of emerging talents. One of them was Katie Boulter, the British No 3.
We will come to the results later, but simply to be playing in Perth is a huge achievement for Boulter. Here is a woman who, only four years ago, could barely drag herself out of bed to use the bathroom. She is a survivor of chronic fatigue syndrome: a little-understood condition that has ended many athletic careers. In the view of her mother Sue, the exhaustion was triggered by an ill-fated trip to India in December 2014, where she contracted a virus. By the early weeks of 2015, she was in a terrible state. 'I got to the point where I was pretty much doing nothing during the day,' Boulter told The Daily Telegraph. 'I was in bed. I would go for walks and that was my daily activity.
It wasn't necessarily from India that I was ill. It was a period of time over the years and it accumulated. Honestly, I think those years I got sick a lot. I just wasn't in tune with my body. It's very easy to be generic and do what everyone else does and what's expected of you. But I didn't know what my boundaries were.
It took so long because I got misdiagnosed initially. That's why it took a full year [to get back on the court] instead of maybe six months. I think at this point I am much smarter, and I choose my battles - when I push it and when I don't. And back then I would probably have gone through all barriers and kept going until I was a little bit too run down.'
Source: The Telegraph
Datd: January 5, 2019
Author: Simon Briggs
URL:
https://uk.sports.yahoo.com/news/katie-boulter-exclusive-interview-apos-080000913.html
Katie Boulter exclusive interview: 'I got to the point where I was pretty much doing nothing during the day'
----------------------------------------------------------
For the past week, some of tennis's best-known gladiators have been crossing swords at Perth's Hopman Cup. The exhibition event - which has mixed doubles at its heart - featured four Wimbledon champions in Roger Federer, Serena Williams, Angelique Kerber and Garbine Muguruza, plus a number of emerging talents. One of them was Katie Boulter, the British No 3.
We will come to the results later, but simply to be playing in Perth is a huge achievement for Boulter. Here is a woman who, only four years ago, could barely drag herself out of bed to use the bathroom. She is a survivor of chronic fatigue syndrome: a little-understood condition that has ended many athletic careers. In the view of her mother Sue, the exhaustion was triggered by an ill-fated trip to India in December 2014, where she contracted a virus. By the early weeks of 2015, she was in a terrible state. 'I got to the point where I was pretty much doing nothing during the day,' Boulter told The Daily Telegraph. 'I was in bed. I would go for walks and that was my daily activity.
It wasn't necessarily from India that I was ill. It was a period of time over the years and it accumulated. Honestly, I think those years I got sick a lot. I just wasn't in tune with my body. It's very easy to be generic and do what everyone else does and what's expected of you. But I didn't know what my boundaries were.
It took so long because I got misdiagnosed initially. That's why it took a full year [to get back on the court] instead of maybe six months. I think at this point I am much smarter, and I choose my battles - when I push it and when I don't. And back then I would probably have gone through all barriers and kept going until I was a little bit too run down.'
