Aryna Sabalenka sweeps Amanda Anisimova aside to keep US Open Title

After such a bittersweet season was filled with near-accident and heartache at the last obstacle, Aryna Sabalenka returned to the US Open final with a last chance to win the Grand Slam title that she felt that she owed.

Such an opportunity could have been the source of more fear and stress, another reason for her to fall apart, but the increasingly legant career of Sabalenka is driven by her ability to learn from her losing, no matter how painful they are. This time the nerves of the NR kept.

As the best player in the world at the height of her powers, Sabalenka continues to settle as one of the greatest players of the 21st century. She has now won four Grand Slam titles and draws a level with Kim Clijsters, Arantxa Sánchez Vicario, Naomi Osaka and Hana Mandlikova. Sabalenka has set up an era of dominance on hard courts and has achieved its four large titles with an equal share of victories with the Australian and US Open. She has now also reached six consecutive Grand Slam finals on hard courts.

From the start, both players made it clear that this was a firefight in a match between two of the most deadly shotmakers in sport. Nothing but the most fearless and clear attacking tennis would be sufficient. After he had not converted a breaking point and left 2-0, Anisimova finally won her first game in a Grand Slam final with style, so that a long-term point of brutal heating was ended with a laser-like Forehand winner to pick up the break.

After he finally established part of her nerves, Anisimova spent the following two games with the pumming of the second Serve of Sabalenka and effortlessly down-the-line winners of both wings. But she could not find her reach consistently and her non -oriented mistake continued to rise. Sabalenka gradually started to take advantage of the mediocre portion of Anisimova, so that the second serve of the American pulverized the entire set. She appeared with four consecutive games and a lead of one set.

While Anisimova had difficulty finding the court with her risky, low margin shotmaking, Sabalenka also separated from her challenger with her superior movement, tolerance and deception shot. Although Anisimova called on a brief moment of inspiration, her ground strives for a moment while she took the early second set of break and the set on 3-3 leveled, Sabalenka quickly got control.

At the very last opportunity, Anisimova finally found some new inspiration. With Sabalenka two points of the victory over her serve at 6-3, 5-4, the Belarusia showed her nerves at 30-30 by completely misleading a simple smash and beating it in the net. Commanded with a last chance, the American grabbed it immediately and hit a fore-hand-down winner to take the break.

Suddenly the competition had been given a new complexion when the beats of Anisimova started landing. She was driven to a 6-5 lead and bossed the most points from the baseline. For Sabalenka this could have been the moment that she started to fall apart, her painful memories of this season rushed back. Instead, she took a deep breath, kept her cool and closed another one for her fourth Grand Slam title with a clear tie-break.

Of all the tight losses and missed opportunities that Sabalenka has passed this year, no defeat was just as painful as her three-set loss for Coco Gauff at the French Open final in June. Sabalenka had entered the final that she was mentally and physically ready for every challenge that came in her way. Instead, she mentally crumbled on the field and then took out in the press room, which invite shame and disappointment.

On another massive opportunity against an American opponent, the New York -mixing desperately cheering for her downfall, put Sabalenka back into each other under one of the most challenging circumstances, achieving a victory that can lead her well to even greater successes in the future.