The 24-year-old Belarusian player pushed Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan to three sets to capture her first Grand Slam singles title.
Two games from the championship and in the driver’s seat, Sabalenka pumped her fist, took a few deep breaths and mouthfuls of water on the changeover, then strutted back onto the court to hammer her way to the title. As the reigning Wimbledon champion playing against a first-time Grand Slam finalist, Rybakina held a priceless edge in experience, but Sabalenka had all of the momentum, and the balls were jumping off her strings with a pop and a zip that Rybakina couldn’t match. She was also asked to answer for her native country’s invasion of Ukraine as she stampeded to the title. On her third chance to get the crucial break of serve, Sabalenka sent her opponent scrambling after shots, then put away the game with an overhead shot from the middle of the court. Then, on Sabalenka’s fourth match point, Rybakina buckled, sending that forehand long, and an overwhelmed Sabalenka flat onto her back. On Thursday, after finally making her first Grand Slam final on her fourth try, Sabalenka talked about having fired her sports psychologist. Rybakina, a Russian through her childhood who became a citizen of Kazakhstan when the country promised to pay for her tennis training, spent the better part of two weeks during Wimbledon talking about whether she was actually Kazakh or Russian. They were first and second in hitting winners off their opponents’ serve, and at the top of the charts in peak serve speed, with both cracking 120 miles per hour. It was Sabalenka’s first Grand Slam title in a rocky career that has included the kind of error-ridden, big-moment meltdowns from which some players almost never recover. The year’s first Grand Slam event runs from Jan. On the final, anxious point, Rybakina sent a forehand long. “We’ve been through a lot of downs,” she said.
There were two moments during Aryna Sabalenka's 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 win over Elena Rybakina in the Australian Open final that perfectly encapsulated her journey ...
Her improvements in serve and work rate, as well as the balance she has been able to find by making her all-out attack playing style more sustainable, earned her a first Grand Slam title. Almost poetically, Sabalenka hit a double fault at championship point that took it to deuce, this time the nerves not allowing for a smile, as she needed to dig deep and save two break points before finally winning the tournament. It was Rybakina who flew out of the blocks in the first set, serving well and putting plenty of pressure on a nervy-looking Sabalenka, whose first-serve success rate began to drop as the opening set progressed. After being second-best for the encounter up until that point, Sabalenka finally broke serve and got a breakthrough, before immediately going on the back foot of her own. For a player that has so much ability from the baseline, with a power-packed game developed around clean and precise groundstrokes, Sabalenka’s weakness on serve has always been perplexing. Some in the crowd laughed nervously, and the 24-year-old had a wry smile on her face.
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Sabalenka came back to win after losing the first set against Elena Rybakina in a thrilling final.
An ace took her to 5-3 and Rybakina held to force Sabalenka to test her nerves and serve for the championship. Rybakina cruised through the first set in just 34 minutes but Sabalenka scrapped her way back in a 57-minute second set to take it to a nervy decider. 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 title.
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It was the first time that Sabalenka dropped a set in her 11 wins since the start of the season. The 24-year-old then double-faulted on one championship-point and squandered two more before finally prevailing to claim the Daphne Akhurst Memorial Cup. It was Rybakina who drew first blood, going 3-1 up in the opening set after the fifth-seed dropped her huge serve with a double fault and then sent a forehand long. The number increased to 26 in the second set with Sabalenka having the edge. In a battle between two biggest hitters of the game, Aryna Sabalenka reigned supreme against the current Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina in the Australian Open women's singles final at the Rod Laver Arena on Saturday, winning 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 to lift her maiden Grand Slam title. But the Sabalenka's victory was down to her improved mental stability which eventually helped her script the stunning comeback.
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She has earned her first service break in the second set to make it 3-1 in the second set. Elena Rybakina saved a couple of break points to somehow stay alive in the second set. Rybakina will now serve to stay alive in the set. Sabalenka will now serve for the set. The 23-year-old made it 3-5 in the second set. Elena Rybakina started the third set in an empathetic manner. Elena Rybakina faced a break point and was in grave danger, but recovered well to make it 3-2 in the third and final set. The second set stands at 2-1 in favour of Rybakina. Elena Rybakina saved two break points, but she ran out of gas after she failed to save the third one. Rybakina saved three championship points, but couldn't save the last as Sabalenka laid on the ground in absolute joy and ecstasy. The Kazakh star now needs to break Sabalenka's serve to stay alive in the match. Australian Open 2023 Women’s Singles Final Highlights: Aryna Sabalenka looked down and out after her first set against Elena Rybakina.
AUS Open 2023: बेलारूस की अरीना सबालेंका ने ऑस्ट्रेलिया ओपन का खिताब जीत लिया है.
आर्यना सबालेंका ने तीसरा सेट 6-4 से जीता. इसके बाद तीसरे सेट में भी वह रिबाकिना पर भारी पड़ीं. फाइनल मुकाबले में दुनिया की पांचवीं वरीयता प्राप्त खिलाड़ी सबालेंका ने विश्व की 22वें नंबर की खिलाड़ी एलेना रिबाकिना को 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 से हराया. वह बाद के दोनों सेट में इतनी शानदार टेनिस खेलेंगी इसका अंदाजा शायद ही किसी ने लगाया होगा. ऑस्ट्रेलियन ओपन महिला सिंगल्स के फाइनल में एलेना रिबाकिना ने ताबड़तोड़ शुरुआत की. Aryna Sabalenka Won Australian Open 2023: बेलारूस की टेनिस खिलाड़ी अरीना सबालेंका ने ऑस्ट्रेलियन ओपन में महिला सिंगल्स का फाइनल जीत लिया.
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Sabalenka vs Rybakina Australian Open 2023 Final: सबालेंका ऑस्ट्रेलियन ओपन महिला चैंपियन बन गई हैं।
बेलारूस की एरिना सबालेंका ने शनिवार को ऑस्ट्रेलियाई ओपन के सांस रोक देने वाले फाइनल ...
पहला सेट हारने के बाद सबालेंका ने मुकाबले में शानदार वापसी की और मज़बूत फोरहैंड से खेलते हुए रिबाकिना की मुश्किलें बढ़ाईं। सबालेंका ने तीसरे सेट में 5-4 की बढ़त लेने के बाद 40-30 पर मैच पॉइंट हासिल कर लिया। रिबाकिना गेम को 40-40 की बराबरी पर लाईं, लेकिन इससे वह सबालेंका की यादगार जीत को कुछ देर के लिए ही टाल सकीं। बेलारूसी खिलाड़ी ने इस यादगार जीत के बाद कहा, मैं अभी भी कांप रही हूं और बहुत घबराई हुई हूं। मेरी टीम दौरे की सबसे बेहतरीन टीम है। हम पिछले साल काफी उतार-चढ़ाव से गुजरे हैं। हमने बहुत मेहनत की। तुम लोग इस ट्रॉफी के ज्यादा हकदार हो, यह मुझसे ज्यादा तुम्हारे बारे में है। पिछले साल विंबलडन में पहला ग्रैंड स्लैम जीतने वाली रिबाकिना ने पहला सेट प्रभावशाली रूप से जीता था। वह अपने दूसरे ग्रैंड स्लैम से सिर्फ एक सेट दूर थीं, लेकिन सबालेंका ने उन्हें इससे वंछित कर दिया। मेलबर्न। बेलारूस की एरिना सबालेंका ने शनिवार को ऑस्ट्रेलियाई ओपन के सांस रोक देने वाले फाइनल मुकाबले में कज़ाकस्तान की एलिना रिबाकिना को हराकर करियर का पहला ग्रैंड स्लैम खिताब जीत लिया। रॉड लैवर एरिना पर ढाई घंटे से ज्यादा चले महिला एकल मुकाबले में सबालेंका ने गत विंबलडन चैंपियन रिबाकिना (Elena Rybakina) को 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 से मात दी।
Aryna Sabalenka Wins Australian Open: बेलारुस की स्टार महिला टेनिस खिलाड़ी आर्यना सबलेंका (Aryna Sabalenka) ने ...
हालांकि Aryna Sabalenka ने बेहतरीन ववापसी करते हुए दूसरा और तीसरा सेट क्रमशः 6-3-6-4 से जीतकर खिताब अपने नाम किया. उन्होंने दूसरे गेम में सर्विस तोड़ी और फिर कुछ बेहतरीन सर्विंग के साथ धावा बोला और पहला सेट 6-4 से अपने नाम किया. साथ ही उन्होंने दो खिताब अपने नाम किये.
With geopolitics swirling around tennis Sabalenka muscled her way to a break for 4-3 in the final set, earning the break with a powerful overhead smash from ...
She banged out 17 aces against 7 double faults while winning 72% of the points on her first serve. She congratulated Sabalenka on joining the Grand Slam club. She added that playing under a neutral flag in Melbourne makes her feels as if she comes “from nowhere.” 1 Iga Swiatek, who won the French and U.S. Because Belarus backs the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Australian Open said that Russian and Belarusian players could not compete under the flag or name of their countries, and instead have white flags next to their names. “It was enjoyable to play in front of you, thank you so much.”
The 24-year-old Sabalenka, who is from Belarus, was appearing in her first major final.
A few games later, Sabalenka returned the favor, also putting her racket on one of Rybakina’s offerings at that same speed. This time, Sabalenka again turned toward her entourage, but with a sigh and an eye roll and arms extended, as if to say, “Can you believe it?” Sabalenka had been broken just six times in 55 service games through the course of these two weeks, an average of once per match. That, along with a commitment to trying to stay calm in the most high-pressure moments, is really paying off now. Long capable of hammering aces, she also had a well-known problem with double-faulting, leading the tour in that category last year with nearly 400, including more than 20 apiece in some matches. [Aryna Sabalenka](https://www.outlookindia.com/topic/aryna-sabalenka) won her first Grand Slam title by coming back to beat [Elena Rybakina](https://www.outlookindia.com/topic/elena-rybakina) 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 in the Australian Open women’s final Saturday.
Aryna Sabalenka won against Elena Rybakina by 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 in the Australian Open.
The views expressed here are that of the respective authors/ entities and do not represent the views of Economic Times (ET). 10 in the rankings, breaking into the top 10 for the first time in her career. When asked if the absence of a flag detracts from her victory, Sabalenka responded that everyone still knows she’s a Belarusian player and that's all that matters. In her first Grand Slam singles final, facing the [Wimbledon](/definition/wimbledon)champion and down a set, her guts were tested. She concentrated on seeking solutions and after an electrifying match featuring fearless, unrelenting shots from both players, Sabalenka emerged victorious 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 over [Rybakina](/topic/rybakina), winning the Australian Open. [Aryna Sabalenka](/topic/aryna-sabalenka)emphasized that her mindset has changed during her successful start to the season.
The Belarusian, playing as an individual as Russian and Belarus players are barred from playing under the flags of their countries due to the Ukraine ...
It was Sabalenka who was serving with more authority in the deciding set while Rybakina (she won just 5 of 17 points on second serve in it) was fending off lengthy deuce games. With her returns not as denting, there was no way back for Rybakina in the set as Sabalenka signed off with two straight aces. Rybakina coolly pocketed the set with a hold to love after an unreturned serve (she had a 67% of them in that set). Result: Not even the frittering away of three championship points—the second and third also due to Sabalenka’s errors—could dismantle her mentally. With “the craziest team on the tour” comprising coach Anton Dubrov, who was also in tears after the last point, Sabalenka got down to work in search of solutions for both. She’d been there before, in the company of her long-standing troubles: a wobbly second serve and nervy mind.
And so, as she wasted a second match point by flubbing a forehand, and a third by again missing another, Sabalenka did her best to stay calm, something she used ...
“I really feel right now that I really needed those tough losses to kind of understand myself a little bit better. “I actually feel happy that I lost those matches, so right now I can be a different player and just a different Aryna, you know?” Capable of delivering aces, she also had a well-known problem with double-faulting, leading the tour in that category last year with nearly 400, including matches with more than 20. After much prodding from her group, she agreed to undergo an overhaul of her mechanics last August. At the end, when it mattered more than ever, Sabalenka was able to steady herself. I (kept) telling myself, like, ’Nobody tells you that it’s going to be easy.' You just have to work for it, work for it, ’til the last point,” said Sabalenka, a 24-year-old from Belarus who is now 11-0 with two titles in 2023 and will rise to No. “We’ve been through a lot of, I would say, downs last year,” said Sabalenka, who was appearing in her first major final and had been 0-3 in Slam semifinals until this week. “She was strong mentally, physically.” She yelled and turned her back to the court. [Elena Rybakina](https://apnews.com/article/wimbledon-sports-moscow-kazakhstan-venus-williams-eeec79c03f00550d3476baa22e2e273e) presented itself — and this time, Sabalenka saw a forehand from her similarly powerful foe sail long. She hung in there until a fourth chance to close out She wiggled her shoulders and exhaled.
Aryna Sabalenka rose above geopolitical tumult to become the first player to claim a Grand Slam title as a neutral at the Australian Open.
I live there right now," she said. "But I mean, I played the US Open after. It's not about Wimbledon right now.
Aryna Sabalenka, the fifth seed from Belarus, roared back powerfully to win 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 and take her first grand slam singles title.
On Saturday, she relied heavily on her serve to hold on in the tight final games. On Monday, she will rise to No 10 in the rankings from her current position of 25th, breaking the top 10 for the first time in her career at last. On her fourth match point, Sabalenka forced a final forehand error from Rybakina, and collapsed to the ground as a grand slam champion at last. Her victory is a validation of the perseverance and toil it has taken to improve both her mentality and game. She hired a psychologist, who helped her manage her emotions, before recently deciding to hold herself accountable. With her considerably heavier ball – her ability to combine pace and spin, unlike Rybakina’s flatter ball – alongside her greater athleticism, Sabalenka knew that she had the edge over Rybakina in any neutral rally. Sabalenka remains unbeaten in 2023, winning her first 11 matches of the season with two titles to her name. She spent her time in Adelaide throwing in underarm serves because she simply could not serve. Throughout the supreme winning run she has compiled to start this season, Aryna Sabalenka continually stressed that her mentality has shifted. Neither player shied away from the pressure of such a significant moment and they produced exquisite shotmaking from the beginning. Sabalenka, who hails from Belarus, is the first neutral athlete to win a singles grand slam tournament since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. She is more composed now, willing to work for her opportunities instead of swinging thoughtlessly for the fences.
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.
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
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.
So far this season, Sabalenka has won 22 off the 23 sets she's played, claiming a title in Adelaide and now her first Grand Slam crown.
On her fourth match point, she did something she didn’t do in the first three. I start to understand that actually I’m here because I work so hard and I’m actually good player. “I learned that I have to be a little calmer on court and I don’t have to rush things. She stepped away from the baseline, walked to her towel, wiped off and took a few breaths. Soon, on her own serve, she had her first Championship Point and then inexplicably, hit another double fault. At 3-3 in the third set, Sabalenka dialled up the aggression and power levels. And she delved into the learnings she had from the previous three semifinal losses. I just have to play my game, be calm, and believe in myself, that I can actually get it. Remarkably, she dished out a double fault in the first point of the match. And that streak to the final saw her not drop a single set, making her only the third woman this century to do so after Israeli player Anna Smashnova in 2002 and Agnieszka Radwanska in 2013. She has learnt to stay calm at the toughest moments. And you could see it in the way she confidently opted to serve first in the final after winning the toss.
Belarusian fifth seed Aryna Sabalenka recorded her first Grand Slam singles title by fighting back to beat Elena Rybakina in the Australian Open final.
The Belarusian then celebrated her victory by posing with the trophy as she rode a gondola in the Royal Botanical Gardens with the Daphne Akhurst Memorial Trophy the morning after defeating Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan in the women's singles final at the Australian Open tennis championship. Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus poses with the Daphne Akhurst Memorial Trophy at the Royal Botanical Gardens the morning after defeating Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan in the women's singles final at the Australian Open tennis championship in Melbourne, Australia. Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus poses with the Daphne Akhurst Memorial Trophy in the Royal Botanical Gardens the morning after defeating Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan in the women's singles final at the Australian Open tennis championship in Melbourne, Australia.
Aryna Sabalenka, who comes from Belarus, registered a hard-fought come-from-behind over Kazakhstan's Elena Rybakina in three sets to win her first singles ...
With the win in the women's singles final against Rybakina, Sabalenka has become the first 'neutral' Grand Slam Champion. Australian Open 2023: Belarus' tennis star Aryna Sabalenka showed why she is one of the best players in the world in the sport and why there is so much competition in the women's circuit. Previously, she had won US Open title in 2019 and the Australian Open title in 2021 respectively with Elise Mertens in women's doubles.
మొదటి రౌండ్ మ్యాచ్లోనే ఆమె స్థానిక స్టార్ యాష్లీ బార్టీతో తలపడాల్సి వచ్చింది. అయితే ...
Follow us on [Telegram](https://t.me/SakshiDailyNews) 16 ఏళ్ల వయసులో నేషనల్ టెన్నిస్ అకాడమీలో చేరిన తర్వాత ఆమె కెరీర్ మలుపు తిరిగింది. హాకీ ఆటగాడైన తండ్రి సెర్గీ ప్రోత్సాహంతో ఆటలోకి అడుగు పెట్టిన ఆమె 15 ఏళ్ల వయసు వరకు ఎలాంటి జూనియర్ టోర్నీలు ఆడనే లేదు. ఆరడుగుల ఎత్తు ఉన్న సబలెంకా బలం వేగవంతమైన సర్వీస్లో ఉంది. సబలెంకా ఎడమ చేతిపై పెద్దపులి టాటూ ఉంటుంది. సబలెంకా దూకుడైన ఆట, పదునైన ఏస్లు తప్ప ఆమె అరుపులు ఎవరికీ వినిపించడం లేదు.
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.