Sloane Stephens | Turning a Setback into a Comeback

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🗓️ 1 September 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

In 2017, Sloane Stephens didn’t just secure her first Grand Slam title at the U.S. Open. She did it after an injury benched her for 11 months and sunk her world ranking, earning her the World Tennis Association’s Comeback Player of the Year award. On this episode, she tells us how she maintains a positive mindset in the face of obstacles and how she’s become a champion of change in the cyberbullying space. She also describes the unconventional training regimen that took her from surgery to victory and why having an identity outside of sports can make anyone a stronger athlete.

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0:00.0	Hey, what's up guys? This is Caleb McBride, 3 time WMA All-Star, and you're listening to
0:05.0	Train, Body and Mind, Ground Friends, and Be a Force.
0:09.0	Oh hello, welcome to Train Body and Mind, a podcast exploring the cutting edge of holistic
0:15.0	fitness. I'm your host Jacqueline Byer. Each episode I connect with the world's leading experts
0:19.8	and athletes to talk about mindset, movement, nutrition, recovery, and sleep. What we like
0:25.5	to call the five facets of fitness. Today, I'm talking with former US Open tennis champion
0:31.3	Sloan Stevens about how she's overcome incredible highs and lows in her career. In particular,
0:37.5	her experiences with cyber bullying and what she's doing about it.
0:43.3	Everyone has completely different experiences with the internet and different experiences
0:51.3	with the trolls and how people react to them. It could be one of your peers. It could
0:55.9	be a classmate, whatever it is. Everyone's experience is different, but being able to
1:00.5	protect people on the internet is super important to me because I've been there.
1:08.4	Sloan Stevens burst onto the tennis scene at 19 when she beat tennis icons Serena Williams
1:13.4	at the Australian Open. That was 10 years ago. Now 29 Sloan has seven singles titles under
1:20.3	her belt. She just got married. And as you'll hear in this episode, she's very open in
1:26.2	talking about the role injuries, comebacks, therapy, and yep, online harassment have played
1:32.3	in her life. Thank you for taking the time. So I want to start close to the beginning.
1:43.0	I want to strap into the roller coaster with you. How old were you when you started playing
1:46.8	tennis? I was at nine when I started playing and I lived across the street from a club.
1:52.4	My mom secretly wanted me to be a tennis player. She went to the French Open. When she graduated
1:57.0	college and yeah, I started playing in a camp and I really liked it. I loved my first
2:01.9	coach. He actually played pro. And so I was fortunate enough to have a really good coach
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