Seeing Sabalenka defeat Gauff in two sets to lift the championship trophy, this result still surprised the outside world!
Before this focus battle started, many people thought that the final championship would be very suspenseful, and the person who had the last laugh was likely to be Gauff.
Gauff's semi-final performance against clay queen Swiatek was breathtaking, not only did she put together a stunning winning score, but she even allowed the Polish to finish the match in just two games.
Therefore, against Swiatek, being able to defeat the clay queen like this really makes people see a completely different Gauff, and is called a new generation of clay queen by some fans and netizens.
Then, it is inevitable that Gauff, whose strength has greatly improved on the clay court, will be looked down upon in the final.
However, from the first set, Sabalenka directly used the racket in her hand to crush the expectations of those who supported Gauff to win the championship.
I thought that Gauff would definitely come out in a form that was not inferior to that against Swiatek, but Sabalenka was even more ruthless, and as soon as she came up, she used a wild bombardment to stun Gauff, breaking the American girl's two service games, and quickly taking a 4-1 lead.
Although Gauff fought back and won two games in a row, the initiative of the match was tightly held in Sabalenka's hands, and then the Belarusian girl won the first set 6-3, pushing all the pressure on the American girl.
The second set is the most intense and exciting part of the whole game!
Gauff, who wanted to equalize the score and drag the game into the deciding set, and Sabalenka, who wanted to end the battle in two sets, directly upgraded their combat power.
What makes people feel sorry for Gauff is that even though she took everything she had learned in her life in the second set, and kept the suspense of the victory or defeat in this set in the tie-break, she still lost in the tie-break, so that all her previous efforts were in vain, and she watched Sabalenka have the last laugh.
Why did many people after the race talk about this key battle emphasize that Sabalenka has redefined the new heights of the mountains? In addition to making the impossible possible, it is also related to the personal record set by a Belarusian girl.
From the overall perspective of this game, everyone is still a little disappointed with Gauff.
It stands to reason that the semi-finals were so explosive that the suspense of the match should be directly escalated from the first set, but Gauff became an extremely passive side, and after losing the first set, he continued to fight with the confident Sabalenka, and the pressure was naturally increasing. Especially in the second set, where there was no room for error, Gauff still made a mistake that he shouldn't have made.
In fact, Gauff was the one who took the initiative in the second set, and the fans and netizens in the live broadcast room at that time thought that with her ability, she had a 100% chance of advancing the game to a three-set battle, but no one thought that Gauff could save four break points in her service game, but instead of successfully cashing in the case of the set point, she paid the painful price of being broken, which changed the trend of the whole match.
In the tie-break, Gauff did not resist at the critical moment, which made her lose in the end, and added a bit of sadness to her failure to win the set on her serve.
After the game, some fans and netizens ridiculed that Sabalenka was still very willing to be sisters with Swiatek, knowing that the result of her battle decided whether the Polish girl's second place in the world would go or stay, so she simply fought to the end from beginning to end, directly blocking the channel space for Gauff's ranking to rise, and temporarily resolved the current crisis for Swiatek.
In addition, with this victory over Gauff, Sabalenka became Madrid's treble champion, and she set two remarkable personal records, which are regarded as defining the new heights of the alpine and deservedly: first, the number of wins in the new season has reached 31, leading all the women's tennis girls, and this data has been achieved in 500+ events, which is definitely a reflection of hard power; Second, after harvesting 1,000 championship points, the Belarusian girl became the third girl in WTA history to have more than 11,000 points with 11,118 ranking points, and the two in front of Sabalenka were 13,615 points for Queen Williams in 2013 and 11,695 points for Swiatek in 2024.
"I've been working really hard to improve my game and make my game more diverse. To be honest, in all respects, mobile etc is much better than before. Now I'm still trying to get to the net, and I'm not sure if I've really succeeded so far, but I'm trying. Speaking after the game about her new personal records, Sabalenka said that it was the result of her continuous efforts.
Of course, Sabalenka has a chance to break the rankings in the future, and it is very interesting to see how high she can take this personal record!(Source: Tennis House Author: Starry Sky of Moon River)