What happens when, after years of trying, you finally achieve your wildest dream? How do you move forward and stay motivated?
Madison Keys, winner of the year’s first Grand Slam, has some thoughts.
“From the time I was 14, I just always wanted to win a Grand Slam, and what would that feel like?” Keys told reporters at Roland Garros. “For 16 years, it was just always kind of still the elusive question, and then to finally achieve it and feel that success, have that achievement and then go home and then think, `OK, wait, this is the first time that I don’t not know anymore.’
“It’s, `I did it.’ So I think that’s just the biggest thing. Just kind of shifting past goals that you have now…