The U.S. Open was another reminder that tennis is evolving. A new generation of young players have been frank about the pressure of the game—and what they can do about it, and with it, too.
Twenty years ago, when Daria Abramowicz was a young competitive sailor in Poland, she had the sense that her training was missing something. When all was well—when she was feeling unencumbered—she could read the puffs and lulls of the wind, adjust to the waves and wakes, and use her strength to guide her boat in changeable weather. But under stress her body would tense, and her mind would falter. She didn’t have tools to deal with her own emotions.
Then came the start of the U.S. Open. Świątek disliked the balls that were used by the women—lighter than the ones used by the men, they tended to fly on her. She seemed, too, a little unused to the bright lights of New York, and the city’s unruly energy. But the pressure on the No. 1 seed was lessened, of course, by the tournament’s dominant story line: the swan song of.
Then, though, the weather seemed to change. The crowd, perhaps hoping for a more competitive match, started pulling more vocally for Jabeur. Against tennis’s code, there were whistles when Świątek tried to serve. Jabeur, who had appeared overwhelmed at the start of the match, seemed to ground herself. Her first service percentage rose. Świątek’s dropped. Jabeur’s forehand got more aggressive, as Świątek’s started to break down. Jabeur broke back, levelled the set, and pushed it to a tiebreak.
Like Świątek, she began working with a sports psychologist, who sometimes travelled with her. Like Świątek, for all her physical gifts and strategic prowess, she talked about the game as if it were primarily a mental challenge. But the pressure on Jabeur was a different sort. She is a trailblazer, and proud of it—the first Arab woman to reach a Grand Slam final.
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