Born in Minsk, Belarus, Sabalenka first picked up a tennis racket when she was six years old. His father, Sergei, a former ice hockey player, was looking for anything to keep his active daughter busy. She says, “I was not a sitting-in-one-spot child. He passed a tennis court and decided to try it. The game looked absolutely fit for Sabalenka – acute, competitive and fun. But she admits that the real reason for playing tennis was that because she used to meet to leave school sometimes. “Honestly, I remember that I was waiting for my father to take me. I was the first to leave school and I was very happy,” she says.

Sabalanka was close to her father, and that was his greatest influence. She describes her as one of those people who are just someone you wanted to live around. “He was very funny. I remember I was watching him thinking, O God, I want to be like him when he grows up,” she says. “I believe that my personality comes from him.”

In turn, he believed that she would be one of the great tennis people, and together she dreamed that Sabalenka would win the Grand Slam title before the age of 25. It became the goal they were fighting. First, he mostly played in Belarus, but as he made his way through the developmental circuit and in the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) tour, things started trending in that direction. In 2018, he had a success season when he won two titles, he was named the WTA Newcomer of the Year, and the year 11th in the world was terminated in the year 11th – all until the age of 20 years.

But in 2019, his father suddenly died of meningitis at the age of 43, such as Sabalenka, then 21, exploded the top 10. Suddenly the viewer of winning a Grand Slam made him even bigger in his mind. She wanted to fulfill her promise to her father. Keep fighting To honor their memory by putting the name of the family in history books.

But, she says, she thinks of winning a Grand Slam title Very excess.