Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus. File
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It has been greater than a decade for the reason that U.S. Open had a repeat girls’s champion, however World No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka heads into her title defence at Flushing Meadows aiming to buck that development.
“My thought is to vary that,” stated the Belarusian star forward of the season’s closing Grand Slam starting in New York on Sunday (August 24, 2025).
“However, wow, that’s insane, you understand, how unpredictable girls’s tennis is, proper? Ought to we modify it? Ought to we strive not less than to vary it?”
The final lady to win back-to-back US Open titles was Serena Williams, who received three in a row from 2012 by 2014.
Sabalenka stated the strain to repeat at a Slam is intense, however magnified within the boisterous environment. “I feel it’s a whole lot of strain, positively,” she stated. “Simply because this place is so huge, and it feels larger than the opposite Slams in some methods.
“Possibly each time defending champions come they usually put a lot strain on themselves.
“However I really feel like I’m skilled sufficient to simply give attention to myself and attempt to replicate that consequence.”
Sabalenka stated she’s hoping she will be able to name on the “powerful classes” she discovered this 12 months to tug off the repeat — and retain the primary rating that’s below risk if she doesn’t.
She fell within the Australian Open closing in an agonising finish to a bid for a historic three-peat in Melbourne.
A French Open closing loss and a semifinal exit at Wimbledon adopted.
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