Aryna Sabalenka Press Conference | 2023 US Open Final
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- Опубліковано 25 сер 2024
- Aryna Sabalenka's press conference following her loss to Coco Gauff in the final of the 2023 US Open.
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The 2023 US Open main draw runs from August 28 - September 10 in New York City at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center. The tournament takes place for the 143rd time and is the fourth and final Grand Slam of the year. Last year, Spain's Carlos Alcaraz and Poland's Iga Swiatek claimed the men's and women's singles titles. It was both players' first US Open title, with Alcaraz winning his first Grand Slam title and Swiatek winning her third Grand Slam title. This year, at the US Open, we’re set for another historic tournament as the world’s best tennis players head to New York. Look out for highlights, extended highlights, full matches, press conferences, on-court interviews, hot shots, compilations and more!
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Watching this interview with Sabalenka, I would like to say that she is really a sweetheart! She answered the questions while smiling a lot, wonderful personality. She was gracious, delightful, unassuming, just a joy to watch her talk, no bitterness in her heart, her mannerisms were so natural as well. She won $1,500,000 being a runner-up, not bad at all. I wish she would continue to play at this level for many more years. Congratulations Aryna, we are so proud of you!!!
I think you summarised that really well.
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😂😂😂
$1.5 to a wohman ? Why how many plate did she washed to take all this money
Well said! She is a real sweetheart 💜
She handled that press conference with such class. Not easy to do after a loss. You are an excellent player Aryna.
agreed. Except the class. She literally said the only reason she lost was herself?
@@missana3492 she made a lot of unforced errors. That's what she meant by beating herself. That wasn't the only reason she loss. She did mention that coco moved around the court well, and even better as the match moved along, but a majority of the points she lost on unforced errors. Her struggle for years has been controlling her emotions on court and self destructiong. She's getting better with that.. the best thing is watching them grow from the juniors to where they are now. Coco was able to break her serve and at the end that was all she wrote. Coco closed it out once she got used to Aryna's power. I can only see coco getting more difficult to beat as she continues to improve. Hopefully they play many more matches against each other.
@@missana3492 she literally said that Coco moved well around the court and played an incredible defensive game. And in fact she did make a lot of unforced errors, so basically yeah, she lost to herself more than to Coco
@@producingfire I'm sure if this match was in another country Sabalenka won be
@@producingfire
They are not unforced.
She had to risk more so that Coco doesn't return the ball.
Then she has no other way of winning other than bashing the ball.
That's how you lose gracefully. Great attitude! I look forward to seeing her back in another grand slam final, but I'm also very happy for Coco.
Yes. AO - 24.
Arina - super.
Arina - Koko 2 : 0
The journalist who asked the Q about family is the only decent and professional approach from the whole session. He congratulated her properly and asked a very decent Q about her family, which warmed her heart.
Asking a pro athlete about their family is what you think is the most important question? OK. whatever. Would you have the same question if the athlete wasn't a young woman?
@@stevenmeyer9674 her comment didn’t say the most important question :-)
@@janeevans1859but it said the only 'decent and professional approach'. It's not a family show for a family question to be the only "professional approach". If everyone was asking players family oriented question... I just wonder 🤔🤔🤔
However, the variety of questions brings a balance to the interview.
@@janeevans1859 Lets admit, the question was sexist in nature and also condescending . Nobody has ever asked a male competitor how their family was.
@@janeevans1859yeah the comment said decent and professional which the question wasn’t at all. You ask sports related questions at a sports interview, not family questions…🙄
I was rooting for you Aryna! Congrats on #1 💪
Y YO, CUANDO GANÓ el PRIMERO dije ya GANÓ
For right now!😊
She is so versatile! She can play in every surface there is. Well deserved to be worlds number 1!
She’s not so,hot on clay.
@@tennissir1986she’s made the Stuttgart final 3 times, won Madrid. Semi of Roland Garros. She can definitely play well on clay.
@@bmwpnw She is not athletic enough to beat many players at Roland Garros.
@@bmwpnw Coco Gauff just wrote the book on how to beat Sabalenka on the slower surfaces. And Roland Garros is a lot slower than the US Ooen.
@@tennissir1986 Agreed, every coach of a player who moves well now has a plan for Sabalenka. The thing about Sabalenka's big forehand is that she mostly hits it flat, and once the shoulder tires, there is no shot for which the rate of unforced errors increase like the flatly struck ball.
She’s honest and raw ‘ it was me against me’ . That’s what I like about her. She controlled it so well, then she lost it.
Besides the crowd were always cheering when she did wrong.
Fantastic tournament anyway and congratulations 🎈🎊🎉. You’ll be back stronger!
Meh. "It was me against me," are not the words of a gracious person. And there's nothing particularly honest about it, it's her stroking her own ego, refusing to acknowledge that her opponent was simply the better player out there.
@@hd-xc2lz
Thanks for saying that.
She was attempting to throw Coco off ...but it backfired in real time. And the nerve to tell her team about firing them while smiling. Notice the response from her team.
@@raimenedd969 that was a joke
@@Jazz46203 Of course we all knew it was a joke, yet it sure looked like her team did not appreciate it. But then perhaps they were simply concerned for her emotional well-being on the stand, she was really struggling to keep it together. Have often thought it's the losers of Finals that most need hugs from family and coach, rather than victors. This was one of those instances.
I agree. Not cool to cheer at ANYONE'S double fault. American tennis crowds can be kind of ghetto.
I like the fact that she's being honest and not making a bunch of excuses like the previous players that played Coco
Aryna is wonderful champion and there will be many more finals.
Both of these tennis players did an amazing job. Congrats to both players.
Terrible match, was not too impressed with the match, too many unforced errors for Sabalenka.
The match was only okay
I expect much more from both players. To many errors from both . It was hard to watch.
Congratulations Coco !!!
Aryna see you next year in NYC
Sabalenka didn't win anything sorry.
@@bauer444Coco didn't win this match. Sabalenka handed it to her.😢
@@brabea23 #1 and 1.5 million, not exactly pocket. change. they were both winners.
Love Aryna’s off Court personality! Great tournament! You deserve #1 See you next year!❤
Oh dear Sabalenka. Coco was right, she said she's a really nice person and whatever act she puts on on Court is just for competitiveness. And they have also practiced together. Sabalenka is really deserving of that Number 1 and I root for Coco but hopes they both continue to be great. And it's true as Sabalenka said, home support can also mean pressure for Coco.
She's going to win a lot of slams... Going deep on all surfaces is no joke 💯💯
Will she? She just lost to a 19 yr. old after owning the 1st set. If she can't win but one major by 25, then loses to a teenager (though an exceptional one), I feel like she might win about as many as Kerber.
It’s always hit or miss for hard hitters like Sabalenka. That too in Semis or finals, pressure is huge she makes lot of unforced errors. Hard hitting becomes her enemy. Yeah Sabalenka might win 4-5 Grandslams but she can’t win too.
This is big facts. Who besides Serena and Venus went - 1 slam, 1 final, 2 semis... like this was WILD!
she was supposed to be out at semi if Keys had 10% of gauff's mental. before keys she faced literally nobody.
@@jodyvance1554 Please remind me who won the AO this year.
We love you Aryna!!! Congratulations on being number 1! 👏👏👏
For the moment!😊
😂😂😂
Very very gracious. Humility after a crushing defeat is a mark of class. Congrats to both champions.
I hope we will see more such great matches between those two great players. both are incredible tennis player and, for sure, nice characters! congrats becoming n1! you deserve it!
...Aryna Sabalenka...congrats...Coco Gauff won the USOpen and you're THE #1 !...and everybody is happy!!!
Aryna is very candid . I did not hear her saying that she was actually an “angry” warrior on the court. Against Coco who was a happy, relaxed warrior ( think thanks to Brad Gilbert) who was enjoying . The New Coco Gauf will win many more trophies if she keeps the high spirit
Very gracious interview after a huge disappointment. She's a great player who just needs a stronger mental game to win more slams.
Great match; respect for Aryna for being gracious in defeat.
@@NK-wr3cl True, she did say that she was battling herself but also acknowleged that Coco was playing great (which is so true!) and in particular Coco's defensive play (I totally agree!)
She had mixed emotions. Was not feeling her sportsmanship. She berated the crowd for not cheering for her like they did Coco, and she joked about firing her team. Gracious 🤔?
"It was me against me." Aryna's very words.
@@Tropicalmama58 Your attempt at spin did not really come off well.
@@NK-wr3cl Pay attention & listen well
She’s getting stronger in the mental game…look out next year 💪🏻😎
Sabalenka is an outstanding player and so is Gauff. Their head-to-head coming into this match was 3 wins for Coco and 2 for Aryna. Now it's 4 for Coco and 2 for Aryna. Gauff played well and pulled off a great upset over the new world #1.
Apparently Coco is the better player.
" Great upset"..?...I thought this could have gone either way
@@brabea23Sabalenka didn’t play well in the second or third set
@@turnne She lost to the actually the best tennis player
@@anybodyhandle Close ranking and " best" are two different things
I was rooting for her. Love the passion she plays with.
She made a tongue-in-cheek comment immediately after the match about wishing the crowd had supported her as much during the match as they were doing in consolation.
So sad for Aryna..But Coco deswrved the win. Wishing both many more great finals, and hopefully Aryna will win another GS soon!! Keep your head up and smile , you arw a champion and a great person!
Basically, Gauff just played like a pure defensive pusher type who runs down nearly every shot and just gets it back in play, making Sabalenka go more for the lines and corners, leading to numerous UEs that decided the 2nd set. Sabalenka reverted back to her erratic play from years past. All credit to Gauff, but I felt the quality of the match wasn't great.
Quality of the match wasn't great? Are you sure you watched it?😮
We know this kind of verdict. Pusher - how much worse can it get [more evil than Catenaccio in football]? Pure, oh Lord, these attitude marks for a players decision how to lay out their game. Maybe it's impossible to have your expectation fulfilled with a lottery hitter like Sabalenka. It was great and thrilling, it wasn't riddled with great rallies. A mind game for most parts.
@@Gaelle-zr2sx A festival of unforced errors, with numerous fails of Sabalenka at the net - it was thrilling, tennis wise not (in comparison to jaw dropping exchanges with the like of Alcaraz or Medvedev).
Typical hater much???
That's a way to win at tennis. Keep getting the ball back however you can and force your opponent to go for too much.
Absolutely beautiful inside and out! Played a Heck of a game today! Congratulations Aryna, totally proud of you!!!
Amazing to me how many people think she was so humble in defeat, when all I heard was, 'it's my fault I lost,' instead of 'Coco played well, upped her game and it FORCED me to go too big and FORCED me to make too many errors.' No real praise for her opponent like you might expect, but more just general politeness, 'she started moving better.'
But I guess Aryna fans (and/or Coco haters) are the majority of people watching this vid and commenting. 🙄
Whoah, tennis fans are BRUTAL. They’re both great players and more importantly, great humans.
Chill out people, It’s just tennis. 💅🏼
She is just so sincere! Love that for her! I actually can’t imagine her personality is like this with her play style!
Aryna was dominant throughout the whole tournament, which on its own, is already amazing. Congrats Aryna on reaching the final!!
She was dominant even in the final until After that 40-15 on Gauff's serve in the 1st game of 2nd set
She may be as dominant as you wish but the final result is what counts. It is called US Open championship.
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Love Sabalenka - but Keys dominated her in that first set the other night.
@@samprovenzanorptr but you need 2 to win, end of story
Super nice girl, deserves #1 position in the rankings and will certainly win other Grand Slam titles!
She has matured much.
So different from the Aryna of 2 years ago.
There were two winners here, Coco 3 million, Aryna #1 and 1.5 million, not exactly pocket change. Great game, and well-deserved Coco for tracking down those rocket shots.
I get what you're saying but there was only 1 winner..
@@kaliefhampton2483 understood, but at the #1 spot and 1.5 million, I definitely consider that a win.
I didn’t like Sabalenka so much until this tournament. She became number 1, she almost won the US Open and she definitely won a lot of people’s hearts.
Wonderful tennis match full of physical, emotional, psychological battles from these 2 ladies! Thanks Coco & Aryna👏 I was supporting Coco 100% in the match, but after this post-match interview and the other interviews Aryna has done at the US Open, I'm going to be pulling for her as well going forward. Love her spirit and personality!
I just love Aryna's Smile ❤
The only person who lost this match was Sabalenka. She was in control winning the first set, but Coco stepped up her defensive game forcing Sabalenka to hit extra shots that would have been winners. I wanted Sabalenka to win, but too many errors cost her the match. She has come a long way from her "choking" days to becoming a grandslam champion. Congratulations to Coco on becoming the third youngest teenager (USA) to win the US Open.
Sabalenka is #1 rightfully earned for her consistency this year. All the best the rest of the season.
What a beauty! 👀 When she raised her hand to fight back the crowd 🤩
Aryna, thank you for taking ownership of your emotions in this press conference. We understand BC Many of us fight against self just like you. You have gained a MAJOR achievement & one bigger than a trophy. You are crowned👑 #1 the world over. That's MASSIVE!!! All of us know your power as an athlete & we are sooooo proud of you. Hail to princess Aryna!! Thank you 4 knocking Igore off her pirch😂she was past due on her fall. Congratulations Ayrina!!! #1🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉👍💅💅💅💞
Both are great players and the Best Person won. Players are so respectful of each other and accept defeat
The best person won? What does that mean??
@@andrewthompson7707 Best player
@@righteous803 she won the match of course but sabalenka lost the match with her unforced errors gauff is nothing but a pusher, this is her 15 minutes of fame.
@@righteous803 gauff played Seven matches and lost a set in five of them. Yeah, she is the best, 😂. Things just win her way this tournament. Just like an unseeded player two years ago named Emma won the tournament
@@andrewthompson7707 Best player won on this particular match
You are amazing, Aryna! When you are playing, we can feel how much you love this sport! Congrats on being number 1 and I’m sure your outstanding career its only beginning! Keep fighting! Love from Brazil ❤🐯
I didn’t know who she was before the US OPEN but now I’m a huge fan of her!
Well, how great that women's tennis has such diverse personalities. There's the extroverted Coco, who as we learned, is a marvelous public speaker. There's Aryna, who is kinda funny, sometimes in a self-depricating way. There's Iga, a quirky introvert.. Elena, another one but not as quirky... all the very cool Czech players with tatoos and without. There's the down to earth Jess. Minister of happiness aka Ons. I am kind of a fan of all of them and I am loving their distinctive journeys... In this year's final I wasn't rooting for any one of the two ladies. It would have been grand if Aryna won, but just as grand now that Coco won.
She gave a great interview. She seems mature and realistic in her response. I liked it. What is up with that last question? That lady should be fired...had nothing to do with the tennis match.
You’ll get more sweetheart. Keep fighting and be proud
Love Aryna and I hope she finishes the year as #1👏🏽👍🏽💪🏾🎾👸
Dankjewel lieve Sabalenka❤ . Je heb goed gedaan om niet te laten beïnvloeden door de mensen . Top en oprecht persoon .🌺😘🌺
❤A very humble personality. Deserve the title of peoples champ
Saba's English is so impressive, she expresses herself in very nuanced ways. Better luck next time
Actually I respect how she responded in front of the camera and kept her composure, while letting out her frustration, behind the scenes in the locker room. It just shows that she wanted to win so bad, which I don't expect less from the #1 player.
She’s amazing!! Love her so much! She’s be heartbroken but she’s not bitter
Aryna you are an Amazing Lady what a wonderful personality so gracious in defeat. Love you so much Aryna..
Keep going Aryna:)) Great work this past two weeks:))
I don't think Aryna played bad. She, instead played very well, she shouldn't blame herself from any potential that can happen to anyone. Coco just played an outstanding Level, that's why Aryna lost.
Seriously? The last two sets were a disaster. Sabalenka handed Coco the match. No excuses for playing that bad in a final😮
@@lizdahl847Typical racist hater much?????
If you look at the number of unforced errors made in the 2nd and 3rd set, the outcome was decided on that basis. It seems like Sabalenka went back to the bad old ways and started trying to finish points too early. Yes, the defence of Gauff was better, but the stats make it pretty clear what happened.
She made 46 unforced errors and Gauff only 19. This final was horrible for such a level of tennis. Maybe emotions played here a crucial role. But if Sabalenka played her best tennis yesterday, I am sure, she would won the titel. Coco played quite well and she is only 19. So my congrats to her.
*Respect #1* !
We gonna c a lot of nice matchs!
Congratulations!!! You are such a great person and tennis player. And now world no 1. Nothing to be disappointed in. Keep smiling and laughing and bringing people joy!! ❤❤
Very classy and gracious in defeat!❤
This interview makes me love Aryna! Wow - this shows how power is displayed through graciousness. I hope she wins the next major tournament.
All honest answers from her...at least she can take her loss not like other players that make excuses!...congrats on Nr 1 position..
What a great personality she has!!!! My best regards for her....
You both did women's tennis proud!! That's why you deserve equal prize money 💰
Agreed. It’s about time. The women’s game has change since Billie jeans and others have played. The new players on the scene is just fantastic. Well them Coco
I have always loved women tennis, but I have to say that was not a great final . Too many mistakes from Sabalenka particularly in the 2nd set, but Gauff was solid ,excellent defense skills, and great court coverage, so she deserved to win this.But overall the women tournament was disapppointing. No great games compared to the guys
@sylvainhyais8166 part of the tennis is mistakes and nerves. She let the crowd and error get in her head. Plus, she's been struggling all year with nerves. The men's game has Alcaraz and other exciting players where women don't have as many. I like the unpredictable side of the women's game. You never know for sure who's going to win.
She is a very powerful player. She will definitely get more championships. And the most important thing is that she is humble in defeat. I love that example of her.
What about medical time out? Is this ok? She just wanted stop Coco’s momentum?
Enjoyed the match, tnx girls 👍
After watching Her lnterview,I See a Real Down to Earth Individual,She is not Full of Herself,like Some others on Tour,I wish Her much Love and Success,and Hope if She can control Her “double faults “,She will be #1 for a LONG TIME,❤
“I’m definitely going for a drink tonight…if I’m allowed to say that” 🤣🤣🤣
Congrats to Aryna. Always rooting for you
Wishing her all the best in the future
Félicitations. Je suis content de la voir au sommet du tennis féminin. Je m'attendais à cela il y a quelques mois mais enfin elle est le numéro un mondial!
She’s different off court she’s actually nice. . On court she’s scary bro.
I applaud her for releasing her frustration privately and away from others. Any "human" who's achieved a champions title in sports knows it takes this kind of emotional passion to consistently be a top level competitor that separates you from the ordinary. She'll learn to harness this energy and use it to win more titles in the future.
She reminds me so much of Mauresmo. Emotional, but a heavy hitter. Hang in there Sabalenka.
What a champion! Such a humble and beautiful spirit. Gauff and Sabalenka are the perfect leaders for our youths today in sports! Beautiful young ladies.
Well done Aryna Sabalenka world number one we love you 😍 ❤
Some of these questions. 🙄 Aryna is an incredible player and a beautiful soul, she’ll definitely bounce back. 💪
always next year ❤
Great SF game… shows your capability to come from behind… Finals is always a big game… and being graceful in defeat is great… keep pushing…. You are still the best…!!!
She kind of looks like Amelie Mauresmo with her hair like this.
I love the way she handled this interview respectful of her efforts and respectful of the opponents. Talked very very little about the injury we don’t know if it was big or small. Spoke about but still gave the opponent the respect nonetheless. No excuses. Made me question the character of of Cori Gauffs previous opponent Ostopenko.
Aryna, Congratulations and great job on your soon to be #1 ranking. :)
Don't feel defeat it you had come a long way look at you #1 that's a privilege be happy 🎉enjoy the path to greatness is always next year your both play great.
We all love you, Aryna. You will win many more slams.
At least she didn't cry like the last girl. You understand that you weren't better and that you lost because the other girl was more skilled. Love it.
Basically Saby is saying she lost the battle with herself and coco got lucky with her defence pushing game. Ultimately, pushers’ get lucky a lot in their Strategy plan.
She is in denial. Coco beat her 62/62 in the last two sets.
But the head to head is 4-2. So clearly something Coco’s game bothers her
The people commenting that she’s lucky do not know tennis. Coco beat nobody. Aryna defeated herself.
but she lost for herself in the second set, she made easy mistakes and put coco in the game, i am surprised that she is aware of this and she repeated several times that coco was amazing
i didn't get that from her.. i got that she felt coco played great but also sabalenka felt she herself could have played better.. it sounds like respect for the opponent plus motivation to get better.. these players don't hate each other like the media wants the fans to believe.. i don't root for aR but i respect her mentality.. she always talks about the battle against self..
The power she displayed in the 1st set was jaw dropping🦾 Expect her to sit at the top for many moons to come💯
Well then, what happened in the last two sets? I'm waiting to the tune of jeopardy!
She had two opponents, Coco and the crowd. Coco only had one, but that doesn't change the fact that she made progress. The American crowd is cruel to their players' opponents.
Well done Aryna #1 ❤
Isn't she indeed a nice person as Coco said. I now am Aryna's newest fan. 🥰
CONGRATS❤
Wow, I can't get over how much she looks like Andy Roddick.
If Andy had a twin sister, that would be Sabalenka.
Dead Ringer
Now that you've said it I can't unsee it! Spot on
@@markyoung7151 😁😁
Ella es maravillosa, pero en esta ocasión mi favoritavera coco
Sabalanka don't have enough mental. Only sabalanka can beat sabalanka
what a silly comment. 1x winner, 1x finalist, 2x semifinalist in a calendar year lol
@@lolz476exactly like you can't win em all lol
@@lolz476
Some people don’t watch tennis. Even Serena, as great as she was, lost to much lower ranked players. I watched Nadal lose to that Swedish player at the French Open.
The whole crowd is against her
What an actor in front the cameras! Why wasn’t she asked about the furious fit she had breaking two of her rackets, once she thought no-one was looking … but the cameras recorded 😏
Because even the press know it's unseemly to kick a woman when she 's down.
@@kjmcindoe6408 it’s more unseemly for a number 1 to behave like a toddler, throwing temper tantrums when things don’t go her way… She has influence on the sport on and off the court. She must be held accountable.
ARYNA YOU'RE STILL THAT WON'T CHANGE, I LOVE WATCHING YOU AGGRESSIVELY RETURNING THE BALL., CONGRATS TO YOU AGAIN.
Well done young lady you tried your very best; keep going you deserve to do well 🎾
the evolution is already notable, if in the future aryna could handle 90% of the emotions and the thoughts she will defintly mark a generation
A WIN IS A WIN!!!!!
That's debatable 🤣
"Women deserve to be paid the same as men because we sacrifice a lot and we are working really hard". Well this is really a very elemenrary line of thought and in my opinion does not help at all the case of equality and fairness. To be honest, it was the wrong question, at a bad timing. Aryna, better be prepared for these questions next time.
Great match and Aryna is such a wonderful person. I was happy with either of them winning and I know this will only make both stronger. Congrats to both ladies and looking forward to them playing more against each other in the future. On a separate note regarding equal pay I’m all for it, but I feel Women should have to play 5 sets too.