“Earlier this year around the holidays I decided this would be my last season. I’m feeling really happy about it and looking forward to it,” Danielle Collins told the WTA media before winning her two WTA 1000 back-to-back titles.
Collins has had some health issues but proclaims that it was not the reason of giving her retirement announcement. In 2016 she turned pro and three years later was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis. A few years from then she had to undergo an emergency surgery to treat endometriosis.
But is was since her days in college tennis that drove her into professional tennis. Danielle won the NCAA championship twice at the University of Virginia after her transfer from the University of Florida. She’d known that tennis was going to be it for her and decided to take the bitters with the sweets.
This 2024 season, Danielle Collins went to the second round defeated by Iga Swiatek and in Abu Dhabi only made it to the Round of 16. But it wasn’t such a bummer because she had a victory over the comeback player Naomi Osaka in straight sets, with the last set being a ‘bagel’
The Qatar Open and the ATX event she finished at the quarterfinals. She lost to Swiatek at Indian Wells and upon the losses that’s when it seems justified that a player would decide…
