Aryna Sabalenka is a Belarusian tennis player who has won Grand Slam titles in both singles and doubles.
📜 Aryna Sabalenka History
Sabalenka first began playing tennis on a whim, but progressed quickly and became a WTA professional in 2015.
Unlike many players, Sabalenka did not ascend through the junior ranks in a conventional manner, opting instead to test herself on the lower-tier ITF circuit much earlier than some of her contemporaries. Sabalenka's WTA ranking then began to rise quite swiftly, and she first broke the top-10 in early 2019.
Sabalenka has subsequently gone on to become one of the strongest players in women's professional tennis. She has reached the semifinals of Roland-Garros and Wimbledon and the final of the US Open. In 2023 she won her first Grand Slam singles title, defeating Elena Rybakina in the final of the US Open. In 2021 she became the WTA women's singles number 1 for the first time.
As well as competing at the highest level in singles, Sabalenka is also a formidable doubles player: she has won the Australian Open and US Open women's doubles titles once each.
Sabalenka is known for her solid serve and her powerful baseline game, characterised by aggressive groundstrokes which often power her to victory - though these also sometimes contribute to a high rate of unforced errors.
