By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Saturday September 7, 2024
New York—Aryna Sabalenka battled previous Jessica Pegula in an exciting US Open girls’s singles closing on Saturday in Arthur Ashe Stadium.
The proficient 26-year-old has change into the very best laborious court docket participant on this planet during the last two seasons, and a glance contained in the numbers will show it.
1 – Sabalenka wins her first US Open title, and drops only one set throughout her seven matches.
3 – Sabalenka captures her third main title in New York.
Lively girls’s singles Grand Slam title winners:
Venus Williams, 7
Iga Swiatek, 5
Naomi Osaka, 4
Aryna Sabalenka, 3
4 – Sabalenka has reached at the least the ultimate of her final 4 laborious court docket majors, and gained three.
14 – The World No.2 stretches her laborious court docket profitable streak on the main to 14 victories.
5 – Sabalenka turns into the fifth participant throughout Open Period to win each Girls’s Singles hardcourt Grand Slams titles throughout the identical season after Monica Seles (1991,92), Steffi Graf (1988,89), Angelique Kerber (2016) and Martina Hingis (1997).
8 – Years since a girls gained each laborious court docket majors in the identical season. Earlier than Sabalenka the final participant to do it was Angelique Kerber in 2016.
27-1 – Sabelenka has gained 27 of her final 28 laborious court docket matches on the majors.
50 – Sabelenka wins her fiftieth match on laborious courts on the majors in her 61st match. She’s the eighth quickest all-time to get to 50 laborious court docket wins within the Open Period.
Solely Chris Evert (55), Martina Hingis (55), Martina Navratilova (56), Monica Seles (53), Serena Williams (58), Steffi Graf (54) and Venus Williams (57) have taken fewer matches to 50 such wins.
