NEW YORK (AP) — Before Aryna Sabalenka could win the U.S. Open again, she needed to understand why she lost two Grand Slam finals this year.

Why she couldn't put away Madison Keys at the Australian Open in January, then couldn't finish off Coco Gauff at the French Open in June.

Sabalenka realized it was because she was allowing bad thoughts to undo her good tennis, and vowed while vacationing in Greece after Wimbledon that would no longer happen.

“I was in Mykonos, reading my book, enjoying the view and I was just thinking that why would I let my emotions take control over me in those two finals?” Sabalenka said. “It felt like I thought that, OK, if I made it to the final, it means that I’m going to win it, and I sort of didn’t expect players to come out there and to fight. I thought th

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