Emotions are important in everyday life as in sports, as in tennis, and Aryna Sabalenka – who in the podcast Served with Andy Roddick analyzed this issue with the former American player – knows well it. Already starting from 2023, the Belarusian has made enormous progress in managing emotions, progress that has helped her win three Majors and become the new queen of women’s tennis.
Important goals, which Aryna has also achieved thanks to her smile, to living sensations and emotions in a positive way. But this, as she herself explained, has not meant becoming a non-emotional tennis player or a robotic and glacial tennis player. On the contrary. The Belarusian explained how we all have these emotional moments, and it works because she explained that if she keeps it all inside, she gets too crazy and has so much heaviness inside. And she can’t think straight.
“We talked with the team and that’s why sometimes you see those funny videos of me yelling at my team, throwing the racket at the US Open, which I didn’t actually throw. I was trying to pass the racket to my coach, but that’s it,” she told.
She also said how she personally for many years has tried to understand her emotions, everyone told her that she should keep it inside, that she should stay calm, that she should be…