Belarusian tennis player Aryna Sabalenka said at the press conference after her defeat to American Cori Gauff that she would have a drink in honor of becoming the world’s first racket.
“That’s probably why I’m not that sad right now. But I will, so I’ll definitely have a drink. Yes, we athletes drink sometimes too, but not too much. Being number one is a great achievement, I am proud of my years of hard work that has allowed me to become number one in the world,” said Sabalenka.
The match between Sabalenka and Gauff lasted 2 hours and 6 minutes and ended with scores of 6:2, 3:6, 2:6.
Sabalenka reached the final of the US Open for the first time. He has a victory to his name at the 2023 Australian Open. In the final, she defeated Elena Rybakina from Kazakhstan in three sets.
For Gauff, this victory was the first in a Grand Slam tournament. In 2022, he played in the French Open final, where he lost to Poland’s Ige Swietek in straight sets. The 19-year-old American started his career in 2018. Gauff won her first tournament in Linz in 2019, defeating Latvia’s Victoria Ostapenko.
Formerly Sobolenko statedThat he lost the US Open final because he thought too much.