Q: Aryna, congratulations. regardless. That was a tough season. How do you mentally regroup after such a tough loss? And what do you think was the key moment where you thought, ‘OK, this is not my game today.’
ARYNA SABALENKA: Well, you never think like that on the court. Every match you play, sometimes things are not going your way, and you still have your hopes that, OK, maybe I’ll find my game. And you just keep digging, keep trying, keep fighting and most of the times you’re able to turn around things. But sometimes players are better on the day than you.
And how to recover after such a tough loss? I mean, the good thing is that I’m always there. The bad thing this season, I lost most of the biggest finals I made. So, I guess I’ll just sit back in Maldives having my probably tequila, and think back and try to analyze my maybe behavior, my emotions and think that actually it’s been pretty good so far. I just need to get little bit better with myself a little bit more, and hopefully next season I’ll improve.
Though she only won one of the sport’s five biggest prizes this season, Sabalenka nonetheless finished the year with most match wins (63), the most ranking points (10,870) and a single-season record for prize money won with $15,008,519.
