The Belarusian tennis player Aryna Sabalenka She regained first place in the women’s ranking on Monday after having displaced the Polish Iga Swiatekwhich had led the ranking since November of last year.
Sabalenka had led the WTA rankings for 8 weeks between September and October 2023before being dethroned by Swiatek, who is now in second place ahead of the American Coco Gauff. The Belarusian rose to first place with just 41 points ahead of the Polish player.
Given this news, Sabalenka left a message on social networks, welcoming her new world ranking. On his Twitter account (X), wrote a striking: “No. 1… Let’s see for how long this time”.
The Belarusian, who this year won the Australian Open and the US Open, returned to the top of the ranking because she only lost 10 points last week, in which Swiatek did not compete either, who resigned in this way. 120 units.
For her part, Russian Daria Kasatkina re-entered the Top Ten for the first time since July 2023, as she appears in ninth place thanks to winning the WTA 500 tournament held in Ningbo (China).
Aryna Sabalenka decided to skip the Asian tour to focus on look for a new coach and celebrates the prudent margin of 41 points (9,706 and 9,665), so the fight to be number one in the world will last until the end.
If there is something that Sabalenka does not do, it is go unnoticed. With an overwhelming personality and powerful impacts, the Belarusian tennis player does not hide her weaknesses. Distraught, she cried uncontrollably on a court because of the number of double faults committed in a match (21, in Adelaide 2022). In the midst of the war between Russia and Ukraine, those who pointed out her for her connection with Ukraine were confronted. Alexander Lukashenkothe president of Belarus who shows his support for Vladimir Putin. He also found himself in the middle of a controversy over the size of a birthday cake received at the Madrid tournament (Carlos Alcaraz, a local player, got a much larger one). And, what’s more, it is pure power on the world’s tracks.
Sabalenka was born in 1998, which in the Chinese horoscope is the year of the tiger, a symbol of strength, protection and bravery. That coincidence caught his attention and he got the animal tattooed on his forearm. “I think I was 18 and my parents didn’t know about this tattoo. And when they saw it the first time my dad laughed, I don’t know why, but my mom didn’t talk to me for a week. And then she said, ‘I hope it’s the first and the last,’ and I said, ‘Yes, mom, it’s the first and the last,’ and Then I turned around and said, ‘Hopefully.’. But she didn’t hear that. I feel like sometimes on the court I need to remember the tigers and fight until the end. Having it on my arm I make sure I can see it all the time and be on fire,” she once revealed, defiantly, with the same attitude that takes her to the top.
On the other hand, in the ATP world classification, in which the Spanish Carlos Alcaraz He is second behind the Italian Jannik Sinner, who has already secured the throne until the end of the year, the also Spanish Roberto Bautista Agut He returned to the Top 50 after winning the title on the Belgian indoor track in Antwerp.
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