Tennis coach Rennae Stubbs believes that the current women’s
world number two Aryna Sabalenka is now focusing on winning two more Grand
Slams this season.
The 25-year-old started the season brilliantly as she lifted
the first Grand Slam of the year — the Australian Open — after beating China’s Qinwen
Zheng in the final with a score of 6-3, 6-2.
Stubbs was recently
quoted in a report where she stated that there is constant effort from Sabalenka
to keep her focus on winning two more Grand Slams this year at Wimbledon and
the US Open.
"I think Aryna Sabalenka's probably focused on
Wimbledon and the US Open," she said. "But it was interesting that
she lost so early, look, Donna Vekic is a great player, but I don't know how
much practicing Aryna Sabalenka would have been doing after the Australian
Open.
“But yeah it's definitely very different to what Jannik
Sinner was able to do immediately after winning the Australian Open. I think
that if If you are happy and this is the issue.
"Now, if you are happy with it and you get complacent
and then you don't have the desire to want to put yourself on the line anymore
because it is so stressful to win a Grand Slam.
"You've got to want to have the desire to go through
that pain and not be satisfied and not be content," she continued. "I
think if you're content with one, you probably won't win two... I think Aryna
Sabalenka is fine."
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