Aryna Sabalenka, from Belarus, is holding his trophy after beating Amanda Anisimova, from the United States, after the Women’s Women’s Women’s final tennis championships on Saturday September 6, 2025 in New York. (AP photo / yuki iwamura)
NEW YORK – ARYNA SABALENKA was two points from what would end up being a second consecutive American open title when it should have been a routine – easy, even – above the head. Instead, by backing up, she threw the ball into the net, giving her opponent, Amanda Anisimova, a chance of breakup.
After this atrocious miss on Saturday, Sabalenka dropped her racket on the blue courtyard and smiled a hectic smile. She began to feel the kind of emotions that took care of her during losses in the final at Australian Open in January and the French Open in June Bubble. She tried to compose.
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“I just let doubt put myself in the head,” said Sabalenka. “But then I turned around and I took a deep inspiration, and I said to myself:” OK. It happens. It’s in the past. Let’s focus on the next one. “”
So everything was fine from there? Well, no. “She broke me,” said Sabalenka laughing hard. “I said to myself,” Ok. … Reset. ” »»
It took an additional 15 minutes to finish the work, but the Sabalenka n ° 1 reset, unlike these previous title matches in 2025, and was able to kneel on the courtyard of Stade Arthur Ashe while covering his face with his hands after having beaten Anisimova 6-3, 7-6 (3). It made Sabalenka the first woman to win the trophy at Flushing Meadows in the consecutive years since Serena Williams in 2012-14.
“I really admire it,” said the seeded n ° 8 Anisimova, a 24 -year -old American woman who heard noisy support from the 24,000 spectators. “She puts a lot of work, and that is why she is where she is.”
Sabalenka, a 27 -year -old woman from Bélarus, obtained her fourth Grand Chelem trophy – all on hard grounds – and avoided becoming the first woman to lose three major finals of a season since Justine Henin in 2006.
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Sabalenka was Madison Keys finalist at Melbourne Park and Coco Gauff in Roland-Garros.
These defeats helped on Saturday.
“After the Australian Open, I thought that the right way would be to forget it and move on. But the same thing happened at the Open of France,” said Sabalenka, who presented himself at his post-patterned press conference with a bottle of champagne and a pair of dark glasses at the top of his head. “So, after the French Open, I thought that, ok, it may be time for me to sit down and watch these finals and maybe learning something, because I didn’t want it to happen again and again.”
While Anisimova continued to get closer to things and the crowd kept noisy, Sabalenka remembered himself.
It worked.
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When Anisimova followed Sabalenka 2-0, 30-love at the start of the match on Saturday, some fans could have wondered: there is no way that there is a rehearsal of Wimbledon, right? This is because the first grand finale of Anisimova, in July at the All England Club, ended with a laundry 6-0, 6-0 against Iga Swiatek.
But Anisimova caught the next four points to break up, caping the match with a reverse winner and a winner of a forehand. It made people exhaus, cries, and Anisimova expired while she was heading for the touch. Soon she led 3-2.
It was another moment that could have launched Sabalenka. No. She took the following four games and this set.
He started to flow before the match, so Ashe’s roof was closed and his artificial lights were lit. It was an anisimova problem, who said that she had trouble seeing the ball during the service schemes.
The configuration has also created windless conditions, ideal for two ball fasteners which can really bring power with good contact. And that’s what they did both.
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Some exchanges were breathtaking – for them, certainly and for those of the stands which praised in power at longer points. The awards can be huge, as is the risks, and Anisimova sought the lines with full cuts on both sides.
“I think I did not have strong enough for my dreams today,” said Anisimova, who buried his face in a towel after the match.
From the first 13 points of Sabalenka, only one came by his own winner. The others? Six unl forced errors and six forced errors by Anisimova.
At the end, Anisimova had almost twice as many winners as Sabalenka, 22-13 and almost twice as many unl in forced errors, 29-15.
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“There were two moments when I was very close to losing control,” said Sabalenka later, “but … I said to myself:” No, it will not happen. It’s absolutely ok. “”
