On The Sit-Down podcast, rising star Talia Gibson mentioned her sensible kind in 2024 that has seen her win three straight Professional Tour titles and put her nearer to Grand Slam direct entry.
Melbourne, VIC, Australia, 18 October 2024 | Matt Trollope
This week, Talia Gibson hit a career-high rating of world No.128, marking an increase of greater than 100 locations since January.
Up to now 12 months she has gained greater than 50 matches, and up to now three seasons has appeared in 15 ITF singles finals, profitable eight titles.
They’re stats that make for spectacular studying, and ones which introduced a smile to her face after they have been put to her on this week’s episode of The Sit-Down podcast.
“Actually, it’s humorous to listen to that, as a result of it’s not typically that you just form of simply take a second to really look again at what you might have achieved,” stated the West Australian, now primarily based in Brisbane.
“I feel so typically you’re trying ahead at what’s subsequent, what’s the subsequent match that I’m taking part in, and it’s not typically that, personally, I actually look again and check out a few of these stats. So thanks for saying that, as a result of it’s really actually attention-grabbing to listen to.
“Simply actually actually happy with the progress that I’ve made, by the rankings, the quantity of finals that I’ve made within the final yr. It’s a very rewarding feeling.”
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Three of these finals have come up to now two months, throughout which Gibson has loved a purple patch on the Australian Professional Tour.
The 20-year-old scooped back-to-back ITF W75 titles in Perth in September, earlier than heading to Cairns and profitable the W35 title there in early October.
These outcomes have seen Gibson construct a 14-match profitable streak, a run she hopes to proceed when she heads to subsequent week’s Professional Tour occasion in Playford, South Australia.
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“(I’m) setting myself objectives on a regular basis of what I wish to obtain, and I feel trying again now, I can tick off quite a lot of objectives that I wished to attain. So I feel it’s actually thrilling and I’m tremendous pleased with how this yr’s gone,” she stated.
“I’ve had so many truly thrilling experiences – now I can say that I’ve performed the entire Grand Slams, which has been a dream of mine since I used to be younger, and now to have been in a position to do this is simply actually, actually superior.
“Couldn’t be happier.”
Certainly, Gibson has carried out simply as impressively abroad as she has in Australia, reaching the ultimate spherical of qualifying at each Wimbledon and the US Open. She additionally reached large ITF finals in Slovenia and Portugal, serving to increase her 2024 win-loss document to 38-21.
At the moment coaching in Brisbane, Gibson has 4 extra Professional Tour occasions on her 2024 schedule past Playford, and will she proceed her wealthy vein of kind, extra ambitions may very well be realised.
There’s additionally the added motivation of larger occasions to return on residence soil, with the Australian Summer time of Tennis set to kick off in simply over two months.
“Direct entry right into a Grand Slam might be certainly one of my largest objectives,” stated Gibson, who can be concentrating on the highest 100.
“I feel it’s undoubtedly a milestone, however I feel in the meanwhile, having simply performed the entire Grand Slams this yr and having gotten into [qualifying] off of my very own rating, I feel that was already an enormous step ahead for me and one thing that was actually thrilling.
“I feel transferring ahead, it may be laborious to interrupt that high 100, however for the second I feel I’m actually specializing in my sport and actually making an attempt to progress as a lot as attainable, and I feel the outcomes can come and I feel the rating is clearly a results of that.
“It’s thrilling to see the place I’m within the rankings proper now, however that’s in all probability not one thing that I’m actually specializing in – I feel generally it might probably get slightly bit distracting.
“However on the finish of the day, yeah, one thing like that might be so superb to attain.”
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