The Colombian tennis player with the highest position in the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) ranking, Maria Camila Osoriosaid goodbye in the best of ways to a year when fortune was not on his side after missing out on two major regular season titles.

the cucuteña He will be 21 on December 21. and after finishing in box 81 of the international women’s tennis rankings for the 2022 season, she received the pleasant news that will participate in the Australian Open 2023 from the qualifying main draw.

That’s why Osorio is looking to demand much more of himself and fight to regain the level he showed in 2021 when was champion of the Colsanitas Cup in Bogotá and vice-champion of the Tenerife tournament in Spain. La Norte Santander has traveled precisely to Iberian soil to carry out the pre-season of the year in which it hopes to catapult all its talent into a grand slam.

From Barcelona, ​​​​the Colombian tennis player has already confirmed her new work team for 2023 and will train with Spanish tennis player Albert Costa2002 Roland Garros champion, which earned him ATP 6th place 20 years ago.

Through an official statement, the women’s promise of Colombian tennis has confirmed that Costa will be accompanied by the coach Ana Alcazarin addition to a physical trainer, a physiotherapist, a sports nutritionist, a sports psychologist and medical services, who will be at your disposal throughout the annual campaign.

Costa spoke about the opportunity to train María Camila and assured that the goal will be to improve the WTA ranking box for her, just like she did at the beginning of the year when she became number 33 in the world after losing the WTA 250 Open in Monterrey and semi-finalist of the Copa Colsanitas 2022:

For me it is a pleasure to be able to train with Camila, a young player with enormous potential, with a very particular talent and our objective will be to guide her, to advise her in all areas of tennis, technically, physically and mentally. , so that she is able to achieve all her goals in 2024, very happy and very happy because this new season begins

The Colombian tennis player’s first pre-season jobs will be in the TEC Carles Ferrer Salat which is a successful center of social impact.

Located in Barcelona, ​​the space will allow Osorio to have sufficient and high-level coaching and full support to fully exploit his potential, at least among the top 10 tennis players in the world.

Osorio Serrano has had an on-and-off year due to the constant injuries that have dragged him down from May to date.

Before that, the 20-year-old from Cucuteña finished second in the Monterrey WTA 250 March 6. In his hands he had match point decisive to stay with the Mexican open, but suffered the return of his Canadian counterpart Leylah Fernandezwho finally beat her with partials of 7(7)-6(5), 4-6 and 6(3)-7(7).

After his participation in Monterrey, Osorio traveled to Bogotá to try to defend his title in the Colsanitas Cup 2022. In the Colombian competition, she could only settle for a qualification for the semi-finals, a case where she was eliminated by the Brazilian Laura Pigossi.

After this championship, María Camila suffered eliminations from the Rome Open, Roland Garros, Nottingham, Birmingham, Eastbourne, Wimbledon, US Open, among others.

The first and most recent participation of the Nortesantanderienne in the Australian Open dates back to January 16, 2022 when she was eliminated against the Japanese Naomi Osaka in the first round.

On January 19, she is eliminated with the French Clara Burel in the women’s doubles category and the 20 he suffered the same misfortune in mixed doubles by pairing with Valle del Cauca Juan Sebastien Cabal.

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