Aryna Sabalenka was crowned champion at the Australian Open this Saturday. The Belarusian, who defended the title she won last year after clearly beating China’s Qinwen Zheng 6-3, 6-2, celebrated the victory in style with her team, both on court and from afar.
And soon the congratulatory messages arrived. One of them was his best friend on the circuit, Paula Badosa. The Catalan It took him a few minutes to show his joy through social media.
“You deserve everything. What a champion!!!!” He wrote in an Instagram story, while on Twitter he featured the following: “I love your speeches, the best on and off the court!“.
The Belarusian, who will continue as number 2 in the WTA, highlighted after the match that it was “two incredible weeks. As always, speaking will be strange. “I put a bit more pressure on my team after the final in Brisbane and we’re better here.”
“I want to thank Evonne (Goolagong) because you are an inspiration to all of us. I also want to congratulate Qinwen, I know it feels so hard but you are still very young and a great player.. You get to a lot of finals like this and I know you will,” Zheng said of China’s, who will break the top-10 barrier for the first time in his career after his superb run at Melbourne Park.
“I also want to thank my family, because I always forget them in these speeches. I don’t know if I will continue with English because they won’t know anything” he said with a laugh.
Source: La Verdad
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