{"id":432531,"date":"2026-01-27T10:07:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T10:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/432531\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T10:07:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T10:07:09","slug":"australian-open-2026-aryna-sabalenka-says-it-is-trophy-or-nothing-after-beating-iva-jovic-to-reach-semi-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/432531\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian Open 2026: Aryna Sabalenka says it is &#8216;trophy or nothing&#8217; after beating Iva Jovic to reach semi-finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sabalenka has reached this year&#8217;s semi-finals in Melbourne without dropping a set, taking her winning streak at the start of 2026 to 10 matches and 20 consecutive sets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Having lost two Grand Slam finals last year &#8211; first in Melbourne and then at the French Open &#8211; Sabalenka defended her US Open crown in September and is the heavy favourite to regain her Australian Open title.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sabalenka, who has won 19 of her 22 career titles on hard courts, said: &#8220;I think every player, when they get to the tournament, is trophy or nothing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The mentality is the same, and it&#8217;s always in the back of your mind that obviously you want to win it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But I&#8217;m trying to shift my focus on the right things and just trying my best in each match, each point, each game, each set. That&#8217;s my mentality.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sabalenka has reached this year&#8217;s semi-finals in Melbourne without dropping a set, taking her winning streak at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":432532,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-432531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432531","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=432531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}