After graduating from the National University of Singapore with an English literature degree, she began pursuing tennis full-time in 2014.
She worked three jobs and took out loans to pay for a training stint at Barcelona’s Sanchez-Casal Tennis Academy, where she worked as a dormitory warden.
In her mid-20s at that point, she stuck out among the other students who were mostly aged 12 to 16. She described this chapter of her life as “very unique” and a “rare privilege”.
“I just knew that I was there to play, and I was there to try and become as much of a player as I could be,” she said.
“We fall into this trap of comparison so much in Singapore, because I think that’s the way we’ve been taught to survive, and also the way we’ve been taught to function and engage our worth.”
