Arena Sabalinka at the 40 Mimi Open won Jessica Peugeot in the final. (Matthew Stockman)
Arena Sapalinka number one globally, from fresh from Miami Open on Saturday, because of her consistent shape this season to mastery of the mood in which its shows were afflicted.
Sabalenka Miami added to the title she won in Brisbane by beating American Jessica Begola 7-5 6-2 at the Hard Rock Stadium.
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The Belarusian also appeared in the finals in Australia Open and Indian wells, but showed its increasing maturity by dealing with a cylinder group for the first time as it was broken three times by PEGULA.
In the past, Sabalenka interacts with a break from the service or moments of frustration of anger and sometimes its loud shows to annoy her with itself.
But there was no sign of this cold loss against PEGULA, and she said this was the result of realizing that there was more than her big game.
“I have struggled a lot in the past with many different things, I faced very difficult challenges, and I was suffering from my service a lot,” said 26 -year -old.
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“I couldn’t work for a while, so I had to play without service, and I think this is the moment when I realized that I already have other weapons in my game, so I can really win the match even if my service is not working,” she said.
But there was also a conscious decision to cut off the strange when the game was in difficult moments.
“One day, I just decided, whatever happened on the field, I will not show my feelings. I passed a lot, and there are more difficult things in life than any destruction, so I was like, well, whatever happens, I will not show any feelings. I have finished it,” she said.
“I don’t want to be this child who looks like, continued frustration and loss of matches. I have worked very well. I think it was the first year when I won Australia Open (2023) in which I realized a lot of things, since then, I am a different person, a different player, and (stronger) in the mental part of the game.
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Sabalinka said that she will celebrate her victory with her team in Miami, where she kept staying, before her ideas turned towards the clay season.
Grand Slam, all of them, were all on solid stadiums, and her best performance in Roland Garros was in the semi -finals in 2023.
She believes she is now in a great position to make a clay effect.
“I physically think I am ready to go,” she said.
“I think this is the key, because I think I have everything a good player at Clay Stadium. I didn’t talk to my team. But I can assume that we will focus on my fitness,” she said.
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