There are examples—both good and bad—of how to deal with big-time success early in a tennis career. The mature and talented Garbine Muguruza is paying attention to the good examples so that she may continue her progress after her breakout at Wimbledon this summer, where she reached her first career final.

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Speaking to Courtney Nguyen of WTATennis.com, the 21-year-old World No. 9 says that she is aware of the pitfalls that she’ll be facing in this her breakout summer.

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“It's really hard,” she told Nguyen. “You come with a good level playing, and here you have to start from the first round, second round, third round. I'm trying to see other people who have been in this situation and see what they do. Like Sara Errani. She made a Slam final and stayed in the Top 10. I want to ask her, what should I do? I see a lot of examples of people who do great and then fall. I don't want to be that.”

Muguruza learned first-hand how difficult it is to come off of Wimbledon Centre Court and step back into the reality of the WTA Tour’s day-to-day grind. Her straight-sets loss to Lesia Tsurenko was about as ugly as it gets. Not only did Muguruza fall, but she dropped ten of eleven games down the stretch and smashed her racquet in a widely-viewed tantrum.

Still, Muguruza has demonstrated that she has the maturity to go with her blossoming game. She’ll likely learn from this experience.

“It's hard because you felt a lot of emotion and you come here because you feel like you have to start from zero again,” she told Nguyen. “It feels different. But it feels different because I've never been in this kind of situation, coming from a Grand Slam final. Everyone is looking at what you're doing, but it's normal.”