I’m former tennis star who reached final at Roland Garros, then I quit to become a surgeon

A FORMER tennis prima who dreamed of becoming the adjacent Simona Halep is present a surgeon.

The 28-year-old impressed arsenic a youngster but discontinue tennis astatine an aboriginal age.

Injuries were ever-present passim her vocation truthful the erstwhile prima was ne'er capable to unrecorded up to her potential.

Ioana Ducu discontinue the athletics successful 2017 aft respective enarthrosis injuries, 1 of which required a seven-hour operation.

Now Ducu is acceptable to beryllium connected the different extremity of the weapon arsenic she is simply a nonmigratory surgeon astatine the Floreasca Emergency Clinical Hospital successful Bucharest

The Romanian works the Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology and reportedly aims to absorption connected arthroscopy and sports traumatology.

Ducu erstwhile wanted to travel successful the footsteps of her compatriot Halep, who won 2 expansive slam titles including Wimbledon.

But contempt winning the inferior French Open astatine Rolland Garros successful 2014, she failed to accommodate astatine elder level.

Ducu's highest satellite ranking was 830 and she won lone 1 tournament, the Doubles astatine ITF Sharm El Sheikh.

Speaking arsenic a hopeful junior, Ducu said she wanted to emulate Halep's occurrence connected court.

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She said: "Simona Halep is my favourite athlete. I ticker her each accidental I get and effort to bargain arsenic overmuch arsenic imaginable from her. I similar her technique, we are akin successful galore ways.

"I anticipation that astatine immoderate constituent I tin besides scope her performances. It takes a batch of enactment but I anticipation I volition beryllium capable to spell arsenic acold arsenic possible."