Aryna Sabalenka’s U.S. Open Mindset and Early Morning Routine

Aryna Sabalenka’s U.S. Open titles are built on an empire state of mind. Can she find it again?

Aryna Sabalenka first traveled to New York City as a teenager. On her first morning in the Big Apple, weary and jet-lagged, she rose just after dawn. Her body clock was telling her it was time. Unable to get back to sleep, she threw on some clothes and headed out the door of her hotel room just after 6 a.m., hoping to take a solitary walk in what she assumed would be a slumbering Central Park. “I thought, ‘OK, it’s going to be empty, it’s going to be beautiful,’” Sabalenka recalled during a rece