Aryna Sabalenka has been labelled \u201cthe Jannik Sinner\u201d of women\u2019s tennis as she was hailed for an \u201camazing\u201d performance that saw her reach the 2026 Australian Open final.<\/p>\n
The two-time Australian Open<\/a> champion stormed to a\u00a06-2, 6-3 semi-final victory against world No 12 Elina Svitolina to advance to her fourth consecutive final at Melbourne Park.<\/p>\n The world No 1 has won 11 straight matches and 22 sets in a row in a remarkably dominant start to the 2026 season, having won the Brisbane International prior to the year\u2019s first major.<\/p>\n Sabalenka<\/a> has now reached\u00a0seven successive hard-court Grand Slam finals in a run that started at the 2023 Australian Open.<\/p>\n In her post-match interview, Sabalenka reacted to being in yet another championship match in Melbourne.<\/p>\n \u201cI just cannot believe that honestly,\u201d said the Belarusian. \u201cThat\u2019s an incredible achievement, but the job is not done yet.<\/p>\n \u201cSuper happy with the win, she\u2019s a tough opponent, [she] was playing really incredible tennis throughout the whole week and, yeah, just super happy to be through this tough match.\u201d<\/p>\n Australian Open: Djokovic & Swiatek react to Gauff\u2019s criticism as Serena Williams sends message<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Who is Peggy Gou and why was she in Carlos Alcaraz\u2019s Australian Open player box?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Want more from Tennis365? Add us as a preferred source on Google to your favourites list<\/a> for tennis coverage you can trust.<\/strong><\/p>\n Jamie Murray, a former doubles world No 1, likened Sabalenka to Sinner, a four-time men\u2019s major winner.<\/p>\n \u201cFor me, she\u2019s kind of like the Sinner of women\u2019s tennis, especially when it comes to hard courts and how dominant she is,\u201d Murray told TNT Sports.<\/p>\n The Brit also lauded Sabalenka\u2019s display against Svitolina.<\/p>\n \u201cI mean she played an amazing match, didn\u2019t she? She was so strong from the start,\u201d Murray assessed.<\/p>\n \u201cShe came through really in all the clutch moments. There were seven deuce games. She won six of them and that is a big difference in the in the scoreline. Too aggressive, too much power, too good on the return of serve as well.<\/p>\n \u201cSvitolina knows she had to play with more risks, go for more on her first serve, and take more chances from the baseline to take control of the points, but of course that comes with the ability to potentially make more errors.<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t think she played a bad match, I just think Sabalenka was too good. Her tempo is so high, the ball\u2019s back at you like a rocket, there\u2019s no time to think and make decisions in the point.\u201d<\/p>\n Watch the Australian Open on Eurosport, TNT Sports, HBO Max and discovery+<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n READ NEXT: Serena Williams refuses to rule out comeback as she is asked directly in telling interview<\/a> The post Aryna Sabalenka gets a glowing comparison as she achieves stunning Australian Open feat<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Aryna Sabalenka has been labelled \u201cthe Jannik Sinner\u201d of women\u2019s tennis as she was hailed for an \u201camazing\u201d performance that saw her reach the 2026 Australian Open final. The two-time Australian Open champion stormed to a\u00a06-2, 6-3 semi-final victory against world No 12 Elina Svitolina to advance to her fourth consecutive final at Melbourne Park. […]<\/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-1682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1682","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=1682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Australian Open News<\/h2>\n
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