The camera and the New York bubble suit him well.
Victorious in Cincinnati, relocated to Flushing Meadows last weekend, the 31-year-old Belarusian climbed 32 places in the WTA rankings and regained 27th place in the world.
She can also congratulate herself on her choice to have rented a house and not to stay in the two hotels chosen by the organizers.
At the Cincinnati tournament, Victoria Azarenka benefited, it is true, from the forfeit of Naomi Osaka in the final.
However, the native of Minsk, who walked against Barbara Haas 6-1, 6-2, when entering the US Open, remains on six consecutive victories.
Not bad for the double winner of the Australian Open (2012-2013), who had no longer tasted success on the circuit….
since a year.
"I'm very happy with the way I've progressed throughout the week," she said last weekend.
I had the impression that from one game to the next I was doing something a little better.
I had very good victories against opponents against whom I had already lost.
It was also very good for me to know that I could overcome these difficulties. ”
Two years of legal hell for the custody of his son
On and off the pitch.
Under house arrest in the context of a merciless legal battle over the custody of her son, Leo, born at the end of 2016, she lived in legal hell for two years, without the possibility of traveling outside the United States to practice his job.
His former companion, Billy McKeague, had indeed chosen to enter a Californian court, which had forced the player not to leave US soil until the conflict was settled.
In order not to lose custody of her first child, Azarenka had chosen to put her career on hold.
After nine long months, the former patron of the circuit was able to make her comeback on the WTA circuit in the spring of 2018.
“I think the biggest difference is I'm really having fun on the pitch, which hasn't happened for a long time. "
Viktoria Azarenka
She took time to find her tennis, weighed down by repeated injuries.
The former world number one (in 2012) stagnated around 50th place last year.
His year 2020 was almost blank before his victory in Cincinnati (four games for four losses).
“I feel like I learned a lot from what I experienced in 2012, my game has developed.
The result is there, now I feel pretty good (…) I think the biggest difference is that I'm really having fun on the pitch, which hasn't happened for a long time.
"
Coached by a French
She finds the light and her new coach, Dorian Descloix, 32, passed from sparring partner to coach, is surely there for something.
Close to ending his career, Azarenka was not at his best when the Frenchman joined him in the United States in February.
Descloix told L'Equipe: “It was a big upgrade, we thought it was going to be very long.
But she still had her killer instinct and her pursuit of perfection.
His mind is rock.
This is what makes me say that she can come back very high. ”
The redemption operation is underway.
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