Elena Rybakina’s coach predicts the one with higher serve to win Australian Open closing: Lot of strain will probably be there

Australian Open 2023: Kazakhstan’s Elena Rybakina and Belarus’ Aryna Sabalenka are set to lock horns within the ladies’s singles closing on the Rod Laver Arena.

New Delhi,UPDATED: Jan 28, 2023 12:23 IST

Elena Rybakina’s coach predicts the one with higher serve to win Australian Open closing: Lot of strain will probably be there. Courtesy: AP

By India Today Web Desk: Elena Rybakina’s coach, Stefano Vukov, reckoned that the participant with the higher service would win the Australian Open ladies’s singles title. On Saturday, January 28, Rybakina and Belarus’ Aryna Sabalenka will lock horns within the closing on the iconic Rod Laver Arena.

As far as serves as involved, Rybakina has numbers in her favour. The 23-year-old has hit 44 aces to date, together with 20 within the quarterfinal and semi-final in opposition to Jelena Ostapenko and Victoria Azarenka.

Rybakina additionally has a primary serve win proportion of 80. Vukov mentioned that each gamers are going to really feel the warmth within the high-voltage match.

“Elena is a good rhythm player, so she can feed off the pace of Aryna also. I think on the backhand side we are a little bit stronger. But as a matchup, there’s gonna be a lot of mistakes, a lot of winners, I’m sure about that, from both sides, because there is going to be a lot of pressure,” Vukov was quoted as saying.

“I feel who serves properly tomorrow goes via. That’s my feeling,” he added.

Sabalenka has crushed Rybakina in all three matches to date on the WTA stage. All thrice, the match went right down to the deciding third set. Back in 2021, Sabalenka and Rybakina additionally locked horns at Wimbledon.

However, Sabalenka’s coach, Anton Dubrov, doesn’t wish to take historical past under consideration. He mentioned that the upcoming fixture is ‘a new match’.

“We may say that it was actually onerous on a regular basis, three units on a regular basis. I feel it was identical to one break per set virtually on a regular basis,” Dubrov mentioned.

While Rybakina already has a Grand Slam title (Wimbledon 2022) to her title, Sabalenka will probably be enjoying her maiden Grand Slam closing.

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sabyasachi chowdhury

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Jan 28, 2023