NEW YORK :World number one Aryna Sabalenka is hoping she can use the lessons she has learned during a tough season to become the first repeat U.S. Open women's champion in over a decade.

No player has won back-to-back singles titles at Flushing Meadows since Serena Williams' "three-peat" from 2012 to 2014, and Sabalenka returns to the scene of her 2024 triumph having finished runner-up at two slams this year and exiting in the semi-finals of the third.

"I was trying to ignore that statistic. My thought is to change that. My hope, I'd say," Sabalenka told a press conference on Friday.

"But, wow, that's insane, you know, how unpredictable women's tennis is, right? Should we change it? Should we at least try to change it?"

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