Caroline Garcia: What I’d Do Differently
4/27/202625 min
In this special episode of Tennis Insider Club, Caroline Garcia and Borja Duran sit down for an honest, personal conversation about life on tour, the reality behind professional tennis, performance, pressure, identity, and what fans don’t usually see from the outside.
No guest. No filter. Just a deeper look into Caroline’s world — from the emotions of competing at the highest level, to the lessons learned through wins, losses, injuries, expectations, and the constant search for balance in an individual sport.
Caroline opens up about the mental side of tennis, the sacrifices behind the ranking, the challenge of staying true to yourself, and what it really means to build a career — and a life — beyond results.
If you love tennis, high performance, mindset, athlete stories, or the human side of elite sport, this episode gives you rare access to one of the most thoughtful voices in the game.
This episode is brought to you by Fairmont Mayakoba, a luxury resort in the Riviera Maya where nature, wellness, sport, and world-class hospitality come together. Discover the perfect destination to rest, reconnect, and experience Mexico at its most beautiful.
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Hosted by Caroline Garcia and Borja Duran.
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First 90 secondsCaroline Garcia· Host0:00
Hello, everyone. We are here at the Fairmont Mayakoba, where we are taking few days off after a very productive week in Miami, and it's one of my favorite places to relax, recharge, and, uh, discover new culture. So if one day you are looking to visit Caribbes, don't hesitate.
Borja Duran· Host0:18
Here we are again, two years and a half after- Yes ... since we started, or since we did our first episode in Australia. Felt a bit weird. [laughs] [laughs] I'm curious to know, what is the biggest lessons you've learned in the podcast, but also in these two years playing tennis and then half a year of retirement life?
Caroline Garcia· Host0:37
I think definitely what I learned on the podcast was almost every single guest, especially players or former players, um, were kind of regretting that they didn't enjoy enough- Mm-hmm ... the tour or celebrating wins, and it's also something I felt during my career I didn't, um, do enough, you know, like celebrate my title because I always felt, like, rushed by achieving more. And, um, also, like find- finding the balance between being a t- professional tennis player and a normal human being and, um, was, like, wanting to find the balance and- Hmm ... go for dinner and d- discover places, and I think enjoy is one of the best, uh, lesson I learned.
Borja Duran· Host1:22
Yeah. Yeah, it's true. It's why, uh, when we always ask the advice to younger selves, they always say this, no? It looks like, uh, Alcaraz is really good at it, but the most of