She smiled after her semi-final, aware that she had disgusted Maria Sakkari by dint of touching the lines on the important points. “I don’t play tennis so well, in fact I aim for the middle of the court”, she quipped as if to apologize for having had so much success. Except that the accuracy of Aryna Sabalenka on the sequences that count owes little to luck, but rather to the confidence accumulated over the 18 victories garnered this season, for a single defeat.
