Tiziana Scalabrine

but it was an emotional reaction that seemed a bit different from the one that came out in the other finals because Sabalenka has been constantly in the finals for a year and a half or two in the important slams and some of these finals she lost them

As you say, Roland Garros is completely crazy, but also in other cases.

I had the feeling that in this match she felt that she was not the favorite anyway, unlike all the others.

I had the impression that while in other matches against Madison Keyes, against Goff,

she feels that the whole match is on her own track, that she can win it and that she must win it, she puts that kind of pressure even in the match with Anisimova and this then drives her crazy in a certain way, to say things that then emerge as very unsportive.

In this case, however, it was

she can beat me even if I play my best, which is true.

Obviously, perhaps an athlete of that level does not formulate this way, this thought, because otherwise I think it would be very difficult to be there.

But in any case she felt it.

I mean, Ribachina is the tennis player who can beat her even when Sabalenka plays at 100%.

And so that emotional reaction perhaps contained in part this fear and this recognition.

He had a great game.

Yes, I remember.

Yes, yes, yes.

I really appreciated the fact that Sabalenka, even if he recognized that he was going to play as Ribachina, he found a huge and very strong reaction.

He didn't get caught up in all his anxiety and agitation at certain moments.

He didn't start shooting balls, but he played the most organized game he could.

So he showed a great game, in the end, thanks to the reaction that Sabalenka had at that moment.

but I see more of a merit of rebuking at the end of the game and perhaps, which is almost a bit disturbing, also how it has helped the dynamics of coaching on the field because there were two particular moments that were among the most incredible I have ever seen

At one point, it seems to me, in the eighth game, Sabalenka gets two break balls and Vukov says to her, you need two good services.