What's up, folks? Welcome back to the Whoop podcast. I'm your host, Will Ahmed, founder and CEO of Whoop.

We have a great guest today, Sloan Stevens, the incredibly talented professional tennis player and person.

We're going to get to her in a second. A reminder, you can use the code Will, that's WI-L, and get 15%

off a WOOP membership. Check that out at Woop.com. Okay, I sit down with Sloan Stevens,

the very talented professional tennis player. We talk about her amazing ascent in the world of

tennis, turning professional at 16, becoming one of the

top hundred players at the age of 18, winning a U.S. Open. We talk about all the things that

she did to rise to the top. We also talk a lot about her approach to life and her general

attitude towards mental health, the things that she does, the techniques that she has

to ultimately stay balanced. I think this is really one of the unique pieces of information that Sloan

shares with us. We talk about her whoop data, what she does to sleep well and recover, how she

keeps her mind balanced throughout the chaos that is being a professional athlete.

And she also shares some of her favorite athletes that inspire her. So without further ado,

here is Sloan Stevens. Sloan, welcome to the Woof podcast. Thanks. Thanks for having me. You grew up,

as I understand in Florida. Did you always know you're going to be this phenomenal tennis player?

Oh, no, definitely not. I was not very good when I first started.

So I started playing because I grew up across the street from a club and I just was taking lessons.

My mom secretly wanted me to be a tennis player. My mom was a swimmer and my dad played football. So tennis is weird sport in between.

And I just honestly wasn't very good, but I turned out to be okay.

At what point did you start to realize, okay, I'm good at this?

When I was 15, I started getting approached by agents and like other people in the industry,

like just asking if I was going to turn pro or what I was if I was

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