Headline : Aryna Sabalenka holds off Jessica Pegula fightback to win US Open

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As Aryna Sabalenka has cemented herself at the top of her sport over the past two seasons, in so many of the biggest grand slam matches her greatest opponent has been herself. Even when she has come in radiating with confidence, her game in full bloom, her head so often gets in the way. Recovering from so many painful collapses has required resilience beyond measure.

Nowhere have these struggles been more evident than in New York, a city that perfectly suits her electrifying game and outsized personality but where the positives from her two semi-finals and a final in the past three years had been blunted by brutal losses.

At long last, Sabalenka held her nerve until the bitter end after two intense, tempestuous and high quality sets that pushed her to her mental limits. Sabalenka closed out her first US Open title with a supreme 7-5, 7-5 win over the gritty and defiant American Jessica Pegula, who battled desperately until the final ball.

With her third career grand slam title, Sabalenka, the second seed, has now won more major titles than any other Belarusian tennis player, breaking her tie with Victoria Azarenka. She is just the fifth woman in the Open era to claim both hard-court grand slam titles in the same season after also winning the Australian Open this year.

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