Aryna Sabalenka shares promise she wanted to fulfill to her late father

Date:

Aryna Sabalenka shares promise she wanted to fulfill to her late father
(Provided by Tennis World USA)

Aryna Sabalenka revealed in Netflix’s tennis documentary that wanting to fulfill her late father’s dream put more pressure on her to deliver at the Grand Slam level. In 2019 November, Sabalenka’s father Sergey suddenly passed away at the age of 43.

In late 2022 – when filming the second season of Break Point – Sabalenka told Netflix cameras that she and her father dreamed of her having “a couple of Grand Slams before 25.” Sabalenka won the women’s doubles at the 2019 US Open and 2021 Australian Open but her ultimate goal was to land a Grand Slam singles title.

At the start of the 2023 season – just a few months before turning 25 – Sabalenka became a Grand Slam singles champion after beating Elena Rybakina in the Australian Open final.

Sabalenka on wanting to win a Slam and fulfill her father’s dream

“I lost my father four years ago.

We had one dream: that before 25 I will win a couple of Grand Slams. And when he passed away, I started thinking too much about it. Now I’m 24 and there is zero in my pocket. I feel like I just put so much pressure on myself,” Sabalenka told Netflix in late 2022.

The 2022 season definitely wasn’t the easiest for Sabalenka, who was…

Read more…

LEAVE A REPLY

Please enter your comment!
Please enter your name here

Share post:

Latest News

More like this
Related

Putintseva upsets defending champion Gauff in Cincinnati

Kazakhstan’s Yulia Putintseva rallied from a 4-2 deficit in...

Full list of 2024 US Open wildcards, led by Osaka, Andreescu, Anisimova

The USTA revealed the recipients of the women’s singles...

Iga Swiatek reveals why she will ‘snub’ Cincinnati

Iga Swiatek presented herself in a rather particular...