Sabalenka

In a blazing final, Sabalenka and Elena Rybakina matched each other ace for ace and winner for winner, until the No. 5 seed found another gear, ...

“I just changed how I feel. When this tournament began, one player, Iga Swiatek, was in a stratosphere of her own. The quality of the match was reflected in the statistics. The nerves returned, of course—she double faulted on her first match point, and made ground-stroke errors on two others. “I was just nervous in the first set,” Sabalenka said. “I was rushing a lot. Sabalenka was playing her first Grand Slam final, but she already knew exactly how hard it is to win one of these tournaments. “Nobody tells you it’s going to be easy,” Aryna Sabalenka kept saying to herself on Saturday night in Rod Laver Arena. 5 seed found another gear, and her first Grand Slam title. 1 in Australia, and No. Sabalenka is a compelling battle for No. Australian Open

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I realised that nobody other than me will help,” she explained to reporters this week. I’m still screaming ‘C’mon!’ and all that stuff, just less negative emotions.” Sabalenka faced break points in all of her service games against Vekic, saving a remarkable 12 of the 14 she faced, more proof of the huge difference from a year ago. The combination means she can now get herself out of a crisis, as she did when losing the first set of the final and in digging herself out of a hole in her semi-final against Magda Linette. But the shaky serve that has haunted her so badly in the past was rock-solid on her run to a maiden Grand Slam crown. She was reduced to tears on court at a tournament in the lead-up to last year’s Australian Open.

Aryna Sabalenka lies on the court during the women's final round match at the 2023 Australian. After winning the final match, against Elena Rybakina, with fifty ...

Her march to the Australian Open final had been important—a confirmation that Rybakina was one of the best players in the world, that her Wimbledon win was not a fluke. Sabalenka hit a thunderous overhead from a tricky position, the middle of the court, to take the break. She won the match on her third championship point, finishing with fifty-one winners to twenty-eight unforced errors, an astonishing ratio. She had to learn, she said, to fix her own problems on the court. She finished the year with more than four hundred double faults, more than a hundred more than the player with the second most. Rybakina came into the match as the twenty-second seed (and with the early outer-court assignments to match it). Her backhand seems chiselled to the essential motion and polished to smoothness, the way a sculpture can suggest the flow of water. And when the second set of the final began, and the pressure rose, she seemed to embrace it, and started to apply it herself. She had discovered, last year, that the problem was in her mind—but not only in the way one would imagine for a player with the yips. In the third game of the match, after firing an ace to go up 40–0, she watched her lead slip away, gifting a break point to Elena Rybakina with a double fault, and then losing the game with a loose forehand. She has a tiger’s face tattooed on her forearm, and a big cat’s rippling musculature. After Sabalenka scratched the break back to level the set at 4–4, Rybakina coolly got another, to go up 5–4, and then served out the set at love.

The Belarusian, who beat Elena Rybakina to win her first Grand Slam title on Saturday, held the trophy in triumph while the war in Ukraine remained a brutal ...

However you present her on the scoreboard, it was a Belarus victory. “Missing the Wimbledon was really tough for me,” she said. Her performance on Saturday was incontrovertible proof that they had succeeded, with the help of a biomechanical expert but also Sabalenka’s own resilience. Born and raised in Russia, she switched allegiance to Kazakhstan in exchange for financial support in 2018. Rybakina overpowered Swiatek in the fourth round in Melbourne on her way to the final. “And all that really starts from the people I was surrounded with. 2, behind Iga Swiatek, who still has a large lead based on her terrific 2022 season but who has lost to Sabalenka and Rybakina in the last two significant tournaments. It was tennis reminiscent of the big-serving, high-velocity duels between Serena and Venus Williams. But for the most part, it was strength versus strength; straight-line power against straight-line power. “I would like to have a quieter life,” she said after the mixed doubles final. Swiatek, the Polish star who looked set to become a dominant No. Anything less would not have sufficed against Elena Rybakina in their gripping, corner-to-corner final that might have been better suited to a ring as the two six-footers exchanged big blows for two hours and 28 minutes.

MELBOURNE: An emotional Aryna Sabalenka battled back from a set down to beat Elena Rybakina and win the Australian Open on Saturday for her first Grand Slam ...

MELBOURNE (Reuters) -Aryna Sabalenka tamed her nerves to blast her way to a maiden Grand Slam title at the Australian Open, with a 4-6 6-3 6-4 win over ...

It was an amazing two weeks for me and hopefully I'm going to have the same results and even better." "Hopefully we're going to have many more battles," she added. "The last game, of course I was a little bit nervous. With Russian and Belarusian players competing as individuals without national affiliation in Melbourne due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Sabalenka becomes the first neutral athlete to win a major. She double-faulted on one matchpoint and squandered two more to draw gasps from the crowd. It was like a preparation."

The Belarusian overcame Kazakhstan's Elena Rybakina 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 in a thrilling women's final.

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MELBOURNE: Aryna Sabalenka's serve was in pieces a year ago and she was having to scrape through fraught battles in Australia as her fragile emotions ...

I realised that nobody other than me will help,“ she explained to reporters this week. The combination means she can now get herself out of a crisis, as she did when losing the first set of the final and in digging herself out of a hole in her semi-final against Magda Linette. But the shaky serve that has haunted her so badly in the past was rock-solid on her run to a maiden Grand Slam crown.

The 24-year-old dazzled as she showed off her new silverware after her come-from-behind win at Rod Laver Arena on Saturday night - and revealed it wouldn't ...

I started to understand that actually I'm here because I work so hard and I'm actually good player. It was a long journey for us. I think you need to find someone else who's going to help you". 'But I knew that it's not about him. It's just something about me. He just said like, "I don't know what to do.

MELBOURNE: Elena Rybakina said she struggled with the “pressure” and aggression from Aryna Sabalenka in falling to defeat in the Australian Open final today.

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There was more than just one "tough moment" during Sabalenka's tense three-set win over Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina in the Australian Open final. The ...

Like, I started to respect myself more," Sabalenka said. Serving for the match at 5-4, Sabalenka blew three championship points. Once a player riddled with self-doubt and lacking confidence, Sabalenka learned to develop greater belief in her ability. I'm a player. "Every time I had a tough moment on court, I was just reminding myself that I'm good enough to handle everything." "I'm nobody.

The powerful Belarusian, who will become world No. 2 on Monday, showed a new side to her personality, posing effortlessly in front of the cameras.

'I think everyone still knows that I'm Belarusian player. That's it,' says newly crowned Australian Open champion Aryna Sabalenka.

“I think I will go back to Miami. I live there right now,” she said. It’s not about Wimbledon right now. The Belarus tennis federation was quick to extend congratulations to the country’s second tennis player to win a Grand Slam, following on from twice Australian Open champion Victoria Azarenka, who was knocked out in the semifinals. Sabalenka will not have “Belarus” next to her name on the winner’s trophy, the Daphne Akhurst Memorial Cup. Deemed a disruption by organizers, fans were banned from bringing Russian and Belarusian flags to Melbourne Park on the second day of the tournament after a complaint from the Ukraine embassy in Australia.

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Aryna Sabalenka's. Australian Open championship is about persistence. It's about the value of confronting, not ignoring, ...

I'm a player. I'm nobody. [Sabalenka and her team](https://apnews.com/article/wimbledon-sports-aryna-sabalenka-elena-rybakina-melbourne-43d2ff9276c7accb47d659dea4c77411) tell it, it's as much about the way she reconfigured her self-belief as it is about the way she reconfigured her serving technique.

Australian Open champion Aryna Sabalenka took the Daphne Akhurst Memorial Cup on gondola tour through Melbourne's botanical gardens the morning after her ...

Just me and my trophy!" The newly-crowned major-winner, who'll return to No. Cloud 9 look an awful lot like Melbourne, Australia for Aryna Sabalenka on Sunday.