By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Saturday September 7, 2024
New York—Aryna Sabalenka battled previous Jessica Pegula in an exciting US Open ladies’s singles ultimate on Saturday in Arthur Ashe Stadium.
The proficient 26-year-old has change into the perfect arduous court docket participant on the planet over the past 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.
Energetic ladies’s singles Grand Slam title winners:
Venus Williams, 7Iga Swiatek, 5Naomi Osaka, 4Aryna Sabalenka, 3
4 – Sabalenka has reached at the very least the ultimate of her final 4 arduous court docket majors, and received three.
14 – The World No.2 stretches her arduous court docket successful 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 ladies received each arduous 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 received 27 of her final 28 arduous court docket matches on the majors.
50 – Sabelenka wins her fiftieth match on arduous courts on the majors in her 61st match. She’s the eighth quickest all-time to get to 50 arduous 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.
