ANALYSIS: Super serves and ferocious forehands — the data behind the Australian Open women's final
Elena Rybakina and Aryna Sabalenka will battle it out at the Australian Open women's final.abc.net.au/news/how-sabalenka-and-rybakina-plan-to-win-the-2023-australian-open/101902644At its highest level tennis is about solving problems, and creating them for your opponents. Often it's pitched as a battle of guile against strength, deft touch against overwhelming force.This final sees a battle of arguably the two most powerful players of the tournament so far.
Instead of a deep run at last year's first slam, the serving issues cruelled her run before it really started. The issues cropped up through the year as she worked through both the physical and psychological issues with the stroke. ""I'm not going to do something extra. I think that's OK to feel a little bit nervous. It's a big tournament, big final. If you're going to start trying to do something about that, it's going to become bigger, you know?" Sabalenka said post match.For many, if not most, tennis players, winning Wimbledon is the ultimate goal. That is, unless you are from Australia, the USA or France.
In return, the WTA and ATP made the decision to withhold ranking points to the participants. While prize money and, more importantly, the acclaim of the public would still be handed out, it wouldn't help anyone's quest to world number one. It has been that serve that has driven much of her success in Melbourne, with opponents struggling to get a look in. Not only does Rybakina lead the way with the most aces so far, opponents have only been able to successfully return serve just shy of half the time. That's even better than her stellar rate last year.
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