Sofya Zhuk seemed to be on monitor to be the subsequent Russian participant to dominate tennis when she received the junior ladies’ title at Wimbledon in 2015 with out dropping a set.
However, of all of the Grand Slam tournaments she participated in, Zhuk didn’t make it out of the primary spherical of both the French Open or the U.S. Open. She was 123-66 in her profession earlier than stepping away from the game at simply 20 years previous in 2020 on account of a continual again harm.
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Russia’s Sofya Zhuk, proper, holds the winner’s trophy after beating Russia’s Anna Blinkova within the ladies singles remaining on day 12 of the 2015 Wimbledon Championships at The All England Tennis Club in Wimbledon, southwest London, on July 11, 2015. (ADRIAN DENNIS/AFP by way of Getty Images)
Zhuk, now 23, has launched into a brand new journey in Miami and has added an OnlyFans web page to her enterprise portfolio. Zhuk owns a number of companies, together with Boy Toys, which rents out unique automobiles and yachts within the metropolis, in response to her Instagram web page.
Zhuk mentioned she wouldn’t pose nude however as an alternative pose in cocktail attire or bikinis, in response to The Sun.
“Guys, the moment you’ve all been waiting for is finally here! There will be a lot of interesting material,” she mentioned, by way of the outlet.
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Sofya Zhuk within the entrance row. (Clint Spaulding/WWD/Penske Media by way of Getty Images)
She defined to WTA Tennis in 2020 that her again was a problem even earlier than she began to take off within the juniors circuit.
“Even before Junior Wimbledon, my back was so bad that no doctor wanted to even help me out,” she informed the outlet. “I was considered a lost cause. There was only one doctor that even attempted to treat me, and even his prognosis was that I would last for a few years. When it comes to neurological connections, the spine is the main thing in your body. If your spine is off, your hips, shoulders, scapulas, the knees: everything goes off because the position is moving back and forth.”
Zhuk added, “My body doesn’t absorb protein well, and the discs in my spine are all over the place. I’ve taken MRIs that show the firmness of my spine is the equivalent of a 50 or 60-year-old.”
Russia’s Sofya Zhuk eyes the ball as she returns the ball to Germany’s Laura Siegemund throughout their girls’s singles first spherical match on day 1 of The Roland Garros 2019 French Open tennis event in Paris on May 26, 2019. (PHILIPPE LOPEZ/AFP by way of Getty Images)
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Zhuk received six titles on the ITF Circuit and was a runner-up to American Danielle Collins within the 2018 Newport Beach Challenger.