


Now, rewind to about three months before that. Even though she doesn’t like to take credit for this terrible situation, she absolutely saved her life, followed by the critical job performed by the paramedics who arrived and were able to restore a heartbeat.

My sister gave her CPR until the ambulance arrived. My mom was asleep when my dad woke up to her going into cardiac arrest and she was unresponsive for quite a while. Something was wrong with our mom, and she was headed to the hospital in an ambulance. A few days after I got home, I got a call around midnight (on my mom’s birthday) from my sister Kelly who was staying at my parents’ house. It was an amazing two weeks full of a lot of positives, including cracking the Top 10 in the world. I made the quarterfinals in singles and the finals in doubles. In June 2022, I had just flown back to Florida from the French Open. This is a story about my mother, my family, and the past year. When can we start talking about it? When can I tell her story, my story, my family’s story? Everyone just keeps asking me. I texted my husband, Taylor, that the situation with my mom was weighing on me. It all started in Australia after the incident with Damar Hamlin.
