Sabalenka had kind words for Anisimova<\/a> after beating her at the US Open and suggested she knew how she felt to lose another Grand Slam final. <\/p>\nThe world number one has now admitted that she almost walked away from tennis three years ago, with one aspect of her game proving really difficult to master. <\/p>\n
She said: There was a moment in my career, three years ago, when I was double-faulting and I could not serve. I don\u2019t know what happened to me. I could not serve.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt would not work, and I was still playing. I actually ended the year in the top 10 somehow, without the serve.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut I was really close to just quitting. I was like I don\u2019t know how to fix it. We tried everything. We tried psychology, going through repetitions, practising, everything. And I was like, okay, I am about to quit.<\/p>\n
\u201cThen we hired the biomechanics guy, and he helped me to understand some details, and it was the moment for me to stay strong and go through it. To never give up. I did not quit and, after that, I was able to win my first Grand Slam, and that moment was crazy emotional.\u201d<\/p>\n
Where Sabalenka ranks when it comes to serving in 2025<\/p>\n
These days, Sabalenka is a top-six player when it comes to serving on the WTA Tour. <\/p>\n
Clearly, it\u2019s an element of her game that needed some work, and in 2025, it\u2019s been a pretty useful tool in her locker. <\/p>\n
Sabalenka has served up 268 aces from 66 matches on the tour, with 141 double faults coming from her racket, too. <\/p>\n
PlayerAcesDouble FaultsElena Rybakina378176Clara Taulson313189Linda Noskova312229Naomi Osaka269103Exaterina Alexandrova266222Aryna Sabalenka242141<\/p>\n
When you\u2019re winning matches, nothing else really matters, and if Sabalenka has any doubts in the future, she can merely look at her haul of titles. <\/p>\n
However, it\u2019s clear that the player will be leaving no stone unturned in a quest for greatness and tennis domination over the next few years. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aryna Sabalenka is once again the toast of the tennis world after sitting in the winner\u2019s circle again…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149087,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[652,99,428,654],"class_list":{"0":"post-149086","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-aryna-sabalenka","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-tennis","11":"tag-wta"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Photo by Robert Prange\/Getty ImagesAryna Sabalenka nearly quit tennis<\/p>\n