Aryna Sabalenka sweeps aside Amanda Anisimova to retain US Open title | US Open Tennis 2025

After a bit bitten season filled with quasi-accidents and sorrows during the final obstacle, Aryna Sabalenka returned to the final of the United States with a last chance to win the title of the Grand Colem, she felt that she was due.

Such an opportunity could have been the source of more anxiety and stress, another reason for it to collapse, but the increasingly legendary career of Sabalenka has been motivated by its ability to learn from its losses, whatever their painful. This time, the nerves of the n ° 1 resisted perfectly under pressure while it kept her composure during a late wave of Amanda Anisimova before closing her defense of the US Open title with a 6-3, 7-6 (3) victory.

As the best player in the world at the top of his powers, Sabalenka continues to settle as one of the greatest players of the 21st century. She has now won four Grand Slam titles, the level of drawing with Kim Clijsters, Arantxa Sánchez Vicario, Naomi Osaka and Hana Mandlikova. Sabalenka has established an era of dominance on short hard, which obtained its four major titles with an equal share of victories in the Australian and the United States. She also reached six consecutive finals of the Grand Slam on short hard.

From the start, the two players clearly indicated that in a match between two of the most fatal shooting shots in sport, it was a shooting. Just intrepid and clearest attack tennis would be sufficient. After having failed to convert a break point and dragged 2-0, Anisimova finally won his first game in a big home final in style, ending an extensive point of brutal strike with a winner of the laser’s forehand to recover the break.

Having finally settled some of his nerves, Anisimova spent the following two games by cutting the second service of Sabalenka and effortlessly beating the winners of the two wings line. But it could not constantly find its range and its number of unl forced errors continued to increase. Sabalenka has gradually started to take advantage of the mediocre portion of Anisimova, spraying the second American service throughout the set. She emerged with four consecutive games and an advance in a set.

While Anisimova had trouble finding the court with its high -risk and low -margin shooting, Sabalenka also separated from its challenger with its higher movement, its tolerance and its cunning. Although Anisimova spoke of a brief moment of inspiration, her blows momentarily take fire when she recovered the last break from the second set and leveled the whole at 3-3, Sabalenka quickly resumed control.

During the very last occasion, Anisimova finally found a new inspiration. With Sabalenka two points from the victory on its service at 6-3, 5-4, the Belarusian showed its nerves at 30-30 by completely judging a simple smash, slamming it in the net. Presented with a final opportunity, the American snatched it immediately, beating a forehand at the bottom of the line to take the break.

Suddenly, the match had taken a new complexion when the Anisimova blows began to land. It exceeded 6-5, leading most points in the interior of the basic line. For Sabalenka, it could have been the moment when she started to collapse, her painful memories of this season rushed. Instead, she took a deep inspiration, kept it in the fridge and closed another for her fourth title of the Grand Slam with a default equality break.

From all the tight losses and missed opportunities that Sabalenka endured this year, no defeat was as painful as his defeat in three sets against Coco Gauff during the final of the French Open in June. Sabalenka had entered the convinced final that she was mentally and physically ready for any challenge that came to her. Instead, she mentally crumbled on the ground, then unleashed herself in the press room, inviting shame as well as disappointment.

On another massive occasion against an American opponent, New York’s crowd desperately encouraged its fall, Sabalenka recovers in one of the most difficult possible circumstances, winning a victory that could well guide it towards even more important successes in the future.