How SloaneStephens makes time to recharge.
last month . Stephens, who started playing tennis at age nine, made her breakthrough in 2013 when she defeated Serena Williams to reach the Australian Open semifinal. In 2017, after being sidelined for 11 months due to a foot injury, the then unseeded player made an extraordinary comeback, jumping more than 900 spots in the world rankings in a month and going on to win the
. “If someone told me then that I’d win the U.S. Open, I would say ‘it’s absolutely impossible’,” she said of the experience., a nonprofit she founded in 2013 that provides educational opportunities and instructional support to empower children. “I wanted to use my platform to create opportunities for more kids, especially Black and brown kids,” she says of the program, which operates year-round tennis and education programs for youth K-12.
While Stephens still has two more tournaments before the end of the year, these days downtime is something she makes a priority for her physical, mental, and emotional well-being—a lesson she learned the hard way. “At one point or another, we have all kept going when what we needed to do most was rest,” she says. We caught up with Stephens after the BNP Paribas Open, Indian Wells to find out more about her wellness philosophy.Rest shouldn't be a radical practice.
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