If a picture paints a 1,000 words, then the image of Aryna Sabalenka celebrating her latest US Open title provides a vivid description of what victory means.<\/p>\n
Falling to her knees on the court, covering her face and shaking with adrenaline summed up the stress the world number one had been feeling.<\/p>\n
Sabalenka, 27, has been the WTA Tour’s most dominant player again this season – winning more titles, more matches and more points than anyone else.<\/p>\n
But she still had not lifted a Grand Slam trophy in 2025 until beating Amanda Anisimova 6-3 7-6 (7-3) in Saturday’s final in New York. <\/p>\n
“This one felt different. It felt like I had to overcome a lot of things to get it,” said Sabalenka, moments after striding into her victory news conference clutching a champagne bottle.<\/p>\n
“I knew that [because of] the hard work we put in, I deserved to have a Grand Slam title this season.”<\/p>\n
Questions have been raised about Sabalenka’s emotional strength in the final stages of the Grand Slams.<\/p>\n
She answered them with a mature and largely-disciplined performance against Anisimova.<\/p>\n
It was a stark contrast to the way she lost the Australian Open and French Open finals to Madison Keys and Coco Gauff respectively.<\/p>\n
She also learnt from her mistakes in the Wimbledon semi-finals, where she lost to Anisimova.<\/p>\n
“When I fell [to the court], it was because it means a lot to defend this title and to bring such great tennis,” said Sabalenka.<\/p>\n
“To bring the fight and be able to handle my emotions the way I did in this final, it means a lot. <\/p>\n
“I’m super proud right now of myself.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If a picture paints a 1,000 words, then the image of Aryna Sabalenka celebrating her latest US Open…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120389,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-120388","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}