Gabriela Sabatini on Rivalries, Shyness & Finding Herself Beyond Tennis | Love All w/ Kim Clijsters

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Sports, Tennis, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 25 March 2026

⏱️ 81 minutes

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4-time Grand Slam champion Kim Clijsters sits down with legend Gabriela Sabatini to discuss her rise to global fame, career-defining rivalries, and the pressures of life at the top of tennis. Sabatini reflects on growing up as a teenage star in Argentina, navigating shyness and media attention, and her historic matches with Steffi Graf. Kim also breaks down Iga Świątek’s confidence struggles, Naomi Osaka’s motherhood dilemma, and other Miami Open storylines. Welcome to Love All! If you want to hang out with us behind the scenes follow us on all of our socials: https://www.instagram.com/loveallpodcast/ https://www.tiktok.com/@loveallpodcast https://x.com/loveallpodcast TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 Welcome to Love All 6:30 Hailey Baptiste’s Miami performance 8:55 Iga Swiatek’s opening match loss 11:52 Iga Swiatek splits with Wim Fissette 16:16 Naomi Osaka on motherhood and the tour 22:23 Carlos Alcaraz and the ATP spotlight 24:30 Danielle Collins and Corentin Moutet drama 31:48 Gabriela Sabatini joins the show 34:48 Life in Switzerland and riding motorcycles 37:45 Falling in love with tennis at River Plate 40:26 Handling fame as a shy kid 46:38 The Steffi Graf rivalry and doubles 53:56 Retirement at 26 and facing burnout 1:02:32 Horseback riding, guitars, and singing 1:08:16 Building a perfume empire 1:11:46 The one-handed backhand 1:13:56 Origin of the iconic headband look 1:17:33 Emotional impact of meeting fans 1:18:34 Closing thoughts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.1	Here we go.
0:36.4	Hi everyone. Welcome to our 10th episode of Love All. It's kind of our 10th anniversary, Blair. Yay.
0:45.1	I feel so honored to have made it 10 episodes with you, Kim.
0:49.4	Oh, well, thank you. I don't know. Is that a compliment or not?
0:52.5	Yes. Okay. I survived 10.
0:55.1	All right. All right. Good. Yeah, excited about today. I feel like we got the okay from a very,
1:01.8	very special guest to come on on today's episode. So yeah, we have Gabriella Sabatini coming on.
1:10.2	Super excited to talk to her pick her brain and on tennis, on court, off court stuff.
1:15.9	So really looking forward to speaking to her.
1:18.0	In part, wanted to talk to her because at Miami, I feel like the Argentine players,
1:23.5	the South Americans are so beloved.
1:26.4	So it made sense to talk to Gabby during this tournament.
1:29.3	But I happen to see her in player dining totally out of the blue.
1:33.3	And we were talking about the fact that when you hear the term,
1:38.3	aura, she is in the definition, just the most unbelievable presence and kindness and warmth, just the absolute
1:50.1	best in person for those who haven't had a chance to meet her.
1:53.2	So we're excited to pick her brain as well today.
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