By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Wednesday March 6, 2024
Indian Wells, California –Aryna Sabalenka is proud as will be of her two Australian Open titles. The 25-year-old World No.2 labored laborious to finish her profitable title protection at Melbourne this 12 months, and deserves to bask within the glory.
However her mother is already getting anxious for her daughter to win one other Slam.
When requested about the place she retains her two Australian Open trophies throughout BNP Paribas Open media day on Wednesday, Sabalenka shared a hilarious anecdote about them.
“My mother has them, and they’re facet by facet,” she advised a reporter. “She calls them twins and he or she says, ‘We have to have a distinct one – it appears boring when you could have two of the identical ones, can you’re employed on the opposite Slams?’
“I’m like mother, what a straightforward request, thanks for that – you might have simply appreciated these two, they weren’t straightforward to get.”
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Second Slam Was Totally different
Sabalenka’s mother might be completely happy to listen to that her daughter is already beginning to concentrate on her subsequent objectives. How lengthy did it take her to course of her second main title?
“In all probability every week,” she mentioned. “I don’t wish to concentrate on objectives I used to be capable of obtain. I like to maneuver on and begin preparing for the subsequent ones.”
Sabalenka defined that the feelings that got here with successful her second main have been slightly extra muted.
“It was undoubtedly completely different feelings,” she mentioned. “Final 12 months every thing was new for me, and this 12 months I used to be defending champion, and I sort of knew what to anticipate, within the final levels of the match for instance – I’d say that I used to be extra prepared and it wasn’t that emotional. I used to be simply tremendous completely happy to defend my title, however nonetheless it was a tremendous second.”
