“I work to become number one — that’s where I want to get to.” Tyra Caterina Grant plays hard, runs fast, and thinks big. Tennis is her mirror of life. The summit is still a long way off: she has just settled into 223rd place in the world, yet in four days in Madrid she has already climbed thirty‑nine spots in the live rankings.
For the first time in her career she has reached a Masters 1000 tournament through qualifying, without the help of a wild card. And today she took apart the French player Jacquemot, ranked 60th: 6–1, 6–2, a third consecutive victory on Spanish clay in an hour and fifteen minutes of physical, hard‑hitting tennis.
