“I feel like I’ve learned a ton this year, and I’m really excited to take what I’ve learned this year into the next year,” Navarro said at a media roundtable shortly before The Garden Cup exo. “And it’s exciting to have the opportunity to go back and play these tournaments for a second time.”
Navarro might have been singling out the US Open, where she reached the semifinal before losing to eventual champion and current No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka. But she has other fish to fry.
There’s the challenge of defending her first (and, thus far, only) WTA title, early in the new year in Hobart. Improving on her third-round showing at the Australian Open. Atoning for the second-round loss in her home tournament, Charleston. Punching through on the surface that so baffles most Americans, clay. Better management of her fall schedule.
