Two-times Australian Open champion is back in the final four and defiant about controversies in the final a decade ago
“It was one of the worst things that I’ve ever gone through in my professional career, the way I was treated after that moment. The way I had to explain myself, until 10.30pm at night, because people didn’t want to believe me.
The Azarenka renaissance is not just about her tennis, though her tennis has played a significant role. The Belarusian former world No 1 is back in the final four of an Australian Open for the first time since those events in 2013 thanks to what might be labelled a “vintage” quarter-final performance. But that would be to infer that this vintage of Azarenka is identical to the first, when so much about the current version differs.
“I started with not trying to be positive, just trying to be neutral, not to go negative,” she says. “Accepting the anxiety that I have, accepting the fear that I have, kind of working through it … which is pretty hard to do.
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