He was elevated in 2020 when Sabalenka parted ways with longtime coach Dmitry Tursunov and, after only three weeks, Dieter Kindlman.
She’s trying to be really aggressive, screaming hard.”Įventually, Dubrov found a place on Team Sabalenka as a hitting partner. Even back then, she played herself more than the opponent. “Whenever she’s playing, she’s always fighting no matter if it’s No.1, No.100 or 1000.
“She was hitting the ball so hard, sometimes straight to the fence,” Dubrov said. He met the 14-year-old Sabalenka at a Tier 1 event in their hometown. That's all I'm saying." - Jason Stacyĭubrov, 28, was a fair junior player but earned only a single ranking point on the ATP Tour. Obviously, you can see the result from that.” She has a better understanding of herself, a better understanding of what’s going on around her, and that gives her a bit of calmness to make better decisions. "That was probably the biggest part mentally from the preseason training. "She’s like, `OK, just turn around and face it.’ "To be able to do the things that make her very uncomfortable rather than try and avoid it or go around it or pretend it’s not there," Dubrov said. The biggest change has been embracing her own vulnerability and being transparent. They say Sabalenka, who turned 25 this spring, has evolved. On Tuesday, Dubrov, physiotherapist Jason Stacy and hitting partner Andrei Vasilevski met the media. In fact, she’s lost only 16 games in four matches.Īnd while she is a generational athlete, her team has had a big hand in her success. Sabalenka is the only woman left in the tournament who hasn’t dropped a set. On Wednesday she plays a quarterfinal match against the ascendant 20-year-old Zheng Qinwen. But so far at this US Open, Sabalenka hasn’t come close to losing.
That mentality has been ingrained in Sabalenka and has formed the foundations of her 12-month rise to the top of the game. US Open 2023: Draw| Order of play| Scores| 411 And you have to understand, `OK, yeah, today I cannot do it but there is a next day where I can actually be better and I can take something from it.’ ” “That’s what's great about the sport, that you have every week to perform. “That’s where you have to come back and bounce back all the time,” Dubrov explained. And as she works to set aside the career milestone to focus on being the favorite to win the US Open, Team Sabalenka know how quickly fortunes can change. Most tournaments, even the best players find a way to lose. 'I want a battle for this' | Sabalenka's Road to No.1 | Swiatek reflects on her 75-week runīut tennis is a fickle sport. On Monday - with Dubrov still leading her support team - Sabalenka will become only the 29th player to hold the No.1 ranking, ending Iga Swiatek's 75-week run at the top. We just have to work through these tough moments - and we’ll come back stronger.” Sabalenka, fierce and fiery as always, wasn’t having any of that either. “I think I’m done,” Dubrov told her after she lost in the Round of 16 in Dubai. When Sabalenka declined to go along with suggested changes in her service motion, Dubrov offered to resign his role as coach.
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He’s known Aryna Sabalenka for more than a decade, but with the double faults mounting to a DEFCON 1 level, there was a disagreement over how to fix her serve. Everyone looks to each other in a state of nervous suspense and paranoid accusation.NEW YORK - There was a queasy time early last year when it looked like Anton Dubrov was going to miss this moment. This is an extremely difficult task since launching an attack on the enemy exposes the positions of your own Ground Silos, Subs and Bombers the moment they launch nuclear weapons, making you extremely vulnerable and exposed to a crushing counter-attack.ĭesperate attempts must be made to form fast, tactical alliances, alliances that may at any moment break-down to become the treacherous and most deadly of betrayals. In order to win you must wipe out the enemy population and simultaneously disable the enemy's ability to retaliate against you. Points are awarded or lost depending on both the efficacy and thoroughness of your nuclear vendetta and the number of your own civilian deaths.
Your mission is to successfully exterminate your enemy's civilian population whilst saving your own. You play a General hidden deep within an underground bunker. Inspired by the 1983 cult classic film, Wargames, DEFCON superbly evokes the tension, paranoia and suspicion of the Cold War era, playing on the fascinating aspects of psychological gameplay that occur during strategic nuclear warfare.
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