By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Friday January 10, 2025
As the most dominant hard court player in the women’s game, and the defending two-time Australian Open champion, expectations are as high as they have ever been for Aryna Sabalenka this year in Melbourne.
But the three-time major champion does not want to dwell on any of that. She just wants to take things match by match and stay in her happy place.
“I don’t want to overthink about that,” the top seed said on Friday’s media day at the Australian Open. “I just want to do my job. Hopefully by the end of this tournament I’ll be super proud of myself and I’ll be able to put my name in the history.”
No.1-ranked Sabalenka, who will face American Sloane Stephens in first-round action, says she doesn’t mind that the rest of the tour is gunning for her. She says playing with a target on her back is exactly where she wants to be.
“I always liked to accept really tough…
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