Aryna Sabalenka, the Invisible Revolution: How Data and Biomechanics Transformed Her Game

By surrounding herself with data and biomechanics experts, the Belarusian advanced her game without ever breaking with her team, until becoming a winning machine.

Jules Hypolite

le 19/12/2025 à 21h24

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In a sport where coaches are sometimes changed faster than rackets, some prefer another path: keeping their main coach while adjusting everything around them. It's no longer about overhauling everything, but optimizing a structure that already works, making it more efficient and durable.

Aryna Sabalenka had anticipated this evolution long before others.

As early as the 2021 offseason, after reaching world No. 2, the Belarusian brought data specialist Shane Liyanage into her team, tasked with analyzing her game and that of her opponents. An invisible but essential work in her rise to power.

A biomechanics expert to transform her serve

Then, in 2022, faced with a failing serve (428 double faults in the season), Sabalenka turned to biomechanics expert Gavin MacMillan, who helped her deeply rebuild her technique.

The result: a major technical transformation, now considered one of the decisive turning points in her career.

Thanks to these choices made during the offseasons, Sabalenka has gradually established herself as one of the most complete players on the tour, a four-time Grand Slam champion and comfortably settled at the top of the WTA rankings.

The full feature available this weekend

Find the feature "The Offseason, Time for Choices: Change Coaches or Reinvent Yourself?" on TennisTemple on Saturday, December 20.

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As we move to the end of this month and also closing out the year I am wishing all of those following me a Merry Christmas and a Happy/Healthy New Year.

Let's make that wish for all 2000 plus players hoping for 5 wins each day. Hoping ŵhen we open the results page to see all green, and no red. And especially NO CANCELED matches.

From me and my rotti JAZ, I bid you all good night, and see you in...

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why did tennis tonic void predictions on the match between Chwalinska and Huergo at the Quito tournament? The match was played to completion and on time. If TT feels the match is one sided, and of course it was, then don't put it up for prediction. This is getting irritating.

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The finals are here, and we scramble for the best finish. I've been chasing "King" all year and I was able to shrink the spread a little. Skelp is also closing the gap.

Seasons best to all the regulars in our league.

Will you all be back in the new year.?

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Steffi Graf completed a Golden Slam (not just a career Grand Slam) when she was 19. She is the only person to accomplish that, winning the four majors plus Olympic gold the same calendar year.

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