{"id":67773,"date":"2025-08-14T13:56:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T13:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/67773\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T13:56:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T13:56:08","slug":"aryna-sabalenka-spills-beans-on-weakness-in-very-open-confession-tennis-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/67773\/","title":{"rendered":"Aryna Sabalenka spills beans on ‘weakness’ in very open confession | Tennis | Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"

World No.1 Aryna Sabalenka<\/a> has risked alarming her coaching staff with a candid admission over her nutrition. The 27-year-old is currently competing at the Cincinnati Open, and yesterday beat Spaniard Jessica Bouzas Maneiro in straight sets to ease into the last-eight.<\/p>\n

There, she\u2019ll face ninth seed Elena Rybakina. The tournament will be her last before defending her US Open crown this month, having withdrawn from the mixed doubles<\/a> event following injury to partner Grigor Dimitrov. However, her coach Anton Dubrov may now keep a close eye on her eating patterns in New York after she confessed she\u2019s partial to junk food.<\/p>\n

In an interview with the Tennis Channel, she opened up about her tendency to cheat on her strict diet. She said: \u201cSome of my cheat meals are like it’s full on, you know.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s hamburgers, it can be pizza, it can be gummies. It can be a lot of different things in one day because you know, like if it’s a cheat meal, you got to go full, you know.\u201d<\/p>\n

Honing in on her biggest flaw, the Belarusian went into more detail than her mentors may have wanted to hear, adding: \u201cBut hamburgers, that’s my weakness, cheesy and soft and a really good meat and hot and the bun is still melting with the cheese.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to ITF Tennis, professional players are advised to eat a minimum of approximately 2,500 calories a day. The suggested foods differ somewhat from Sabalenka\u2019s favourites, although fans might argue that it hasn\u2019t done the star any harm.<\/p>\n

She remains the world\u2019s top-ranked female player, the same position in which she finished 2024. She began the season by retaining her\u00a0Australian Open\u00a0crown<\/a>, although she came up short at both the French Open and Wimbledon<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Her latest victory was her 50th on the WTA Tour this year. She\u2019ll face a stiff test from ex-Wimbledon<\/a> champion Rybakina, though, after needing a deciding set tie-break to beat her in their last meeting at the Grass Court Championships in Berlin this summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"World No.1 Aryna Sabalenka has risked alarming her coaching staff with a candid admission over her nutrition. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67774,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[4909,53849,53850,53848,64,63,85,747,26599],"class_list":["post-67773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-aryna-sabalenka","tag-aryna-sabalenka-diet","tag-aryna-sabalenka-hamburgers","tag-aryna-sabalenka-junk-food","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-wta-tour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}