Defending US Open Champion Aryna Sabalenka's Guide To Training Your Mind And Body To Win

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🗓️ 27 August 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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On this episode of the WHOOP Podcast, WHOOP Founder and CEO Will Ahmed sits down with World #1 Tennis Player Aryna Sabalenka. Aryna opens up about her journey from first picking up a racket at six years old to becoming the top-ranked player in the world. She reflects on the role her father played in her early development, the turning point when she fell in love with the game, and how her mindset has evolved through the years. Aryna shares an inside look at her training, recovery, and how WHOO...

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0:00.0	I would call my game very aggressive and I would call myself very emotional.
0:05.0	I'm just trying to look at each year as if I got better at something that I wasn't really good enough before.
0:11.0	I'm just trying to have fun and trying to stay in a moment and I'm not really trying to put a lot of expectation of myself.
0:19.0	And also I have a fun team around me so we're
0:21.9	always having so much fun and it also helps to be really focused and kind of like aggressive on
0:27.6	the court the way I am.
0:30.0	Marina, welcome to the Wooop podcast.
0:32.1	Thank you for having me.
0:34.6	Thanks for doing this. I've been a huge admirer of your career, especially of late.
0:39.3	It seems to be taking off and you're an amazing ambassador, I think, for the game of tennis.
0:45.3	Thank you for having me.
0:46.3	I love whoop and we were just talking before I've been wearing a whoop for 1,199 days.
0:55.0	That's a pretty good data streak.
0:57.0	It's a good streak, right?
0:59.0	So let's go back for a second.
1:01.0	When did you start playing tennis?
1:04.0	Oh, it's been a while.
1:07.0	I started when I was six years old.
1:10.0	So I'm playing tennis for 21 years. Can you believe that?
1:14.6	Well, you're doing pretty well at it. And was it love at first sight? Did you immediately
1:19.6	loved the game? I don't really remember the first days of playing tennis, but I remember there was a period when I was like
1:29.0	eight or nine years old where when I wanted to quit but I just didn't want to
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