Emotional Collins enjoys fairytale Florida win in final year

Collins lands the biggest title of her career in her home state

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00:00 To go out today and to have felt the energy that I felt from the fans and

00:05 literally feel like I'm playing in front of thousands of my best friends, that was

00:11 just surreal. I will never forget this day because of that. Everywhere I looked

00:17 people were like, "Let's go Danielle, you can do this." Like the encouragement and

00:21 support that I got was just, it was hard for me to hide the emotion because it's

00:27 just, I think these are the moments that we live for and don't always get to have

00:31 them. It was just really special. Are you reconsidering retirement? No, I'm not. Thank you though.

00:40 I feel like all of these questions are coming from such a good place

00:44 because I feel like a lot of people like would like to continue seeing me play

00:47 well. But like I said, I have some health challenges and with those health

00:53 challenges it makes things for me away from the court a little more difficult

00:56 and I hope that everyone can respect that. It's a very emotional and personal

01:00 thing and yeah.