{"id":1127,"date":"2025-10-05T10:37:53","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T10:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/?p=1127"},"modified":"2025-10-05T10:37:53","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T10:37:53","slug":"clara-tauson-exclusive-how-it-feels-to-beat-aryna-sabalenka-and-iga-swiatek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/?p=1127","title":{"rendered":"Clara Tauson exclusive \u2013 How it feels to beat Aryna Sabalenka and Iga Swiatek"},"content":{"rendered":"

She is one of the few players to have beaten world No 1 Aryna Sabalenka<\/a> and No 2 Iga Swiatek in 2025 and now Clara Tauson has opened up on how she got the better of the two biggest hitters in women\u2019s tennis.<\/p>\n

Speaking exclusively to Tennis365 at the Dongfeng \u00b7 Voyah Wuhan Open, Tauson reflected on her wins against Sabalenka in Dubai, where she went on to reach the final of the W1000 event and her victory against Swiatek at the Canadian Open in August.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cI think it obviously gives you confidence that you can play with these players and beat them as well,\u201d Tauson told Tennis365.<\/p>\n

\u201cI always believed I could beat the top players. I have had some matches where I was 6-4 in the third set with them and this showed I was close, what was possible.<\/p>\n

\u201cBeating players like that shows what you can do and it also means it raises some expectations and maybe I need to be better at managing that.<\/p>\n

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\u201cNext year, hopefully I can do the same kind of year and hopefully even better, but it\u2019s a different scenario for me right now than it was one year ago.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s different emotions that I need to manage and I need to obviously try to keep playing like I\u2019m playing and hopefully I have a couple of good tournaments left in me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tauson has been in touching distance of the top 10 of the WTA Rankings in 2025 and now her target is to break into that elite list.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s all about beating the players in the lower ranks consistently as well as beating the top players because the levels in tennis now are so high,\u201d she continued.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery player in the top 100 can do anything, so it\u2019s all about the kind of day you are having. That\u2019s why we see so many unknown players coming through each week and going far in tournaments.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou never know what might happen, whoever you are playing. Some people can have a bad day, some people can have a good day. It\u2019s all about how you manage the day you\u2019re having. Everyone can have their golden week. It\u2019s all about having the five or six weeks of consistency in a row. That\u2019s what\u2019s important.<\/p>\n

\u201cI guess getting into the top 10 for next year has to be my target now, but just staying in this ranking range is amazing for me.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis time last year, I think I was like No 80 in the world, so it is obviously a much, much better year. There are still some areas to improve, but it has been an amazing year for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Danish tennis is enjoying a boom period with Tauson and Holger Rune raising the profile of the sport in a country not noted for tennis success and she hopes there is much more to come.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe did it all by ourselves to get this far,\u201d she said her success alongside Rune in the last couple of years.<\/p>\n

\u201cHopefully it can help other Danish players in the future and we are already seeing that now, I think.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s great for the people back home to see that I could actually do it after five years on the tour.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tauson is the No 10 seed in Wuhan and will take on Olga Danilovic in her opening match.<\/p>\n

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She is one of the few players to have beaten world No 1 Aryna Sabalenka and No 2 Iga Swiatek in 2025 and now Clara Tauson has opened up on how she got the better of the two biggest hitters in women\u2019s tennis. Speaking exclusively to Tennis365 at the Dongfeng \u00b7 Voyah Wuhan Open, Tauson […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}