Aryna Sabalenka Hits Out At Coaches Who Told Her She 'Is Stupid And Will Never Make It'
NewsSunday, 01 June 2025 at 14:44
Aryna Sabalenka didn't mince words when talking about her former coaches at this year's Roland Garros.
Sabalenka doesn't hide the fact that early on in her tennis career, she wasn't in the hands of the best people. Some of her previous coaches were not the best or the most supportive, but the Belarusian is now finally in a happy place.
The WTA World No. 1 player is currently coached by Anton Dubrov, and she also has her performance coach Jason Stacey, hitting partner Andrei Vasilevski, and boyfriend Georgios Frangulis.
She often jokes around with her team during her speeches after winning trophies, showing just how good she feels with the people currently around her. But that wasn't always the case.
Sabalenka spoke about some of her coaches multiple times in the past, and she has recently opened the topic again at Roland Garros. In reality, it wasn't her who opened the topic, as she was twice asked about it.
During one of her early press conferences, the three-time Grand Slam champion faced a question about why she thinks female tennis players from Eastern Europe seem to be more successful than those from the western part of the continent.
The 27-year-old explained that, maybe, because of how hard some of the coaches, and the environment in general, are in Eastern Europe, players from this region are then much more mentally stronger because of that.
She was then asked a question about some of her former coaches after beating Olga Danilovic in the third round of the tournament. Sabalenka used it to send a message to some of her former coaches, who said she would never succeed.
"It's not about pushing me too hard, I've always been quite motivated, and they didn't have to push me. But I heard a lot of them saying that I'm not smart enough, that I'm stupid, and that I will never make it, and that I don't have anything to make it to the top."
"So, I just wanna a quick message to them to quit their job because, honestly, I think they know nothing, and they better quit just to save other players."
Sabalenka clearly proved all of those who thought she would never succeed wrong. She is now a three-time Grand Slam champion, the top-ranked player on the WTA Tour, and she still has a good part of her career ahead of her.
At Roland Garros, the Belarusian player easily beat Kamilla Rakhimova, Jil Teichmann, and Olga Danilovic, while never losing more than five games to any of these players. She will face the most challenging test so far in the fourth round, taking on the 16th-seeded Amanda Anisimova.
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