Sabalenka: "To be a successful tennis player, you need to have a bad memory"

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The first contact of Aryna Sabalenka with clay this season has not gone as well as hoped. The world number 1 displayed a good version of herself until the day of the final of the WTA 500 Stuttgart 2025. Visibly tired and lacking tactical solutions against Jelena Ostapenko, she succumbed in two sets and offered curious reflections in the press conference.

You can't win all the time, even being the world number 1 and the clear current dominator of women's tennis. Aryna Sabalenka is aware of how important it is to turn the page and not give too much importance to what happens on the court, neither to the victories nor the defeats. In that conceptual framework are her words after the loss suffered against Jelena Ostapenko in the final of the WTA 500 Stuttgart 2025, just 48 hours before she has to debut at the Mutua Madrid Open 2025.

"A few points in the final stretch of the first set ended up defining everything that happened in the match. There are days when you can't offer your best version and you don't know why. That happened to me, and I tried to keep myself in contention for as long as I could. I am not happy with the result, but all that's left is to move forward," stated the Belarusian.

- Sabalenka does not want to give too much importance to her loss in Stuttgart against Ostapenko

With barely any time to internalize what happened in the German city, Aryna Sabalenka will travel to Spain for the Mutua Madrid Open 2025, a tournament where she aims to lift the champion's trophy again. "Throughout my career, I have lost several finals that were hard to digest. If there's one thing I've learned from it, it's that you need a short memory to be a successful tennis player. My only plan right now is to forget what happened here and work harder to do better in Madrid," affirmed the undisputed number 1.

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