Aryna Sabalenka has been praised for her aggressive playing style, which could lead to more Grand Slam success, according to coach Rick Macci.
Sabalenka is well known for having a powerful playing style that helped her to win a first career Grand Slam at the 2023 Australian Open in January. Since then, the Belarusian player has continued the season strongly as she reached the Indian Wells final, before losing to Elena Rybakina in straight sets.
More recently, Sabalenka demonstrated her firepower to eliminate 16-year-old Mirra Andreeva at the Madrid Open. For former Williams sisters coach Macci, who was speaking on his YouTube channel, having the ability to hit the ball hard, accurately and be aggressive is one of the key qualities in tennis.
"Listen, power trumps everything. If you can keep it in, and let's face it, at the end of the day, in pro tennis, it's about how hard you can hit it and keep it in. I understand that you've got to chip it, dip it, flip it and all that stuff. You can sprinkle in that stuff. But I love how aggressive Aryna Sabalenka is. She attacks the ball. There's no fear. If she's mentally not there, she might be herself every now and then, but I can see her win multiple Grand Slams."
Macci also feels that the 24-year-old plays with a certain aura that helps her to win matches, even if she's not at her best. But, the coach also believes that if Sabalenka fine-tunes her psychological game, she can almost be unplayable.
"Aryna Sabalenka, you talk about her firepower, you talk about a authorotative tennis, okay? When she's confident, okay, she's confident, she takes the ball very early and everything's behind the ball. She's very decisive."
"You've got to beat her, okay? You can't really outhit her, okay? She has a lot of power even back in the day, when her serve went haywire to me, it was more mental."
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