Rebecca Marino pauses to think about the question. “What did I really get into?” she repeats to herself, as if saying it aloud might conjure up the answer.
Sitting in the players’ lounge of the Aviva Centre, the Canadian tennis player speaks candidly throughout a wide-ranging interview, but this last question has left her momentarily stumped. Was there anything surprising she learned to do in her almost five years away from the game?
“I learned how to knit and I can make jam,” she says, finally. “I’m like internally an old lady.”
“I’m kind of proud of those, actually,” she adds, smiling.