In January, the player of Vietnamese and Cambodian origin left Melbourne's Margaret Court Arena with tears after being defeated in round two of the Australian Open.
Due to severe calf pain, she was forced to use a wheelchair and had to leave the court before Elina Svitolina could finish the third set.
Only after a hectic week at Wimbledon, his smile never fails to shine, both on and off the court.
There is! She was ranked fifteenth in the world at the age of 100.
The French reaffirmed their victory against Sara Sorribes from Spain (45th), and she challenged Katie Boulter of the United Kingdom in an equivalent ranking (118th).
After a hectic week, she will be facing Amanda Anisimova (25th), for a place at the quarter-finals in the most prestigious tournament, in which she is taking part for the first.
All of this would not have been possible without a meeting almost unplanned with Nathalie Tauziat, former player.
The federal detection was not made because of the variations in length, height and intensity that Harmony Tan used to destabilize his opponent.
She says, "It made it doubt a lot." "I was 16 when I received my baccalaureate. I wanted to return to school. I passed the Sciences Po Paris exam, and was then accepted. After pondering a bit, I decided to give myself two years to see how it went. I kept going because I was getting better at playing.
Tauziat, a former French N.1, finalist in Wimbledon and the US Open, is his "better" sidekick.
"I was a little in the dark. It was the time when I wanted to re-enter my studies. My mother, a journalist and editor, tried to find coaches' numbers but she found Nathalie's. We called her and she answered the phone. That alone was amazing! We were told to visit her South West home. We drove seven hours and took the car that evening. Then we got started. Harmony Tan says we completed ten days of training.
"He made it clear to me that if I continue to defend like this, I won’t be able go to the top like he wants."
A coach of stars was grafted onto the structure for a few months: Sam Sumyk. He has trained in particular Victoria Azarenka, Garbine Muguruza.
He helps me to understand the ways I need to grow. He focuses a lot of his efforts on my game forward and to be more aggressive, as I am very defensive from the base. He explained that if I kept defending like that, I wouldn’t be able reach the highest level as he wanted.
Tennis Majors website was informed by the French coach that his protégée was capable of "doing everything" with his tennis, "all in sensations as well as in touch."
This was a game that almost cost Tan his career. It sparked this week's Wimbledon.
Serena Williams said that any other opponent would have been more suited to my game, which she later regretted.
Harmony Tan commented that Katie Boulter was almost embarrassed in front of her audience.
It is difficult to manage the emotions of a player playing in her seventh Grand Slam tournament, including four at Roland-Garros, and who has never reached the second round.
"It was the first match against Serena Williams on Center Court that was so emotional. Then, I quickly fell. "I was focused on each match," she said, with a touch emotion in her voice. "I feel moved by my journey.
