By Richard Pagliaro | Monday, October 6, 2025
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Daria Kasatkina She checks that she has hit an emotional wall and closed the curtain in its 2026 season.
In a sincere posting on social media, 28-year-old Kasatkina mentioned some factors-the long-season WTA season, the challenges she is facing with changing nationalities from Russian to Australian and the fact that she has not seen her father in four years–contributing to the mental and emotional soats she is feeling.
“I have been far away for a long time and, the truth to tell, my results and shows show that,” Kasatkina posted on social media.
“I’m at the broken point and unfortunately I’m not alone.
“Add to the mix of emotional and mental stress related to my nation’s key and there are only as much as I can deal and take as an individual woman. If it makes me weak, then it will be, I’m weak.
“However, I know I am strong and will be strengthened by being away and recharging. Time the time I heard myself for a change.”
“So I’m joining the 2025 TAP-OUT club,” Kasatkina wrote in a reference to Elina Svitolina and Paula Badosa, which have attracted plugs in their seasons.
Wimbledon Iga Swiatek’s champion also suggested that she may start to give up some mandatory WTA events because the hard schedule is “pretty crazy” and “crushing”.
“When I look at the schedule, I think we’re playing a lot, and the schedule is crazy. This is the first thing that will probably appear in my head,” the media told the media in Beijing last week a few days before she suffered a third Bagel against Emma Navarro. “That’s why I try to share the year for shaking and just focus on the next swing.”
World no. 19 Kasatkina reached the Roland Garro round of 16 and the third rounds on both Wimbledon and US Open, however she has also suffered a range of opening rounds. Since its appearance in the fourth French Open round, Kasatkina fell into the first round in six from the nine beginnings of the tournament.
