{"id":13503,"date":"2025-06-30T14:44:29","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T18:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/sabalenka-rejects-sets-to-5-risk-of-injuries-in-womens-tennis\/"},"modified":"2025-06-30T14:44:29","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T18:44:29","slug":"sabalenka-rejects-sets-to-5-risk-of-injuries-in-womens-tennis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/tennis\/sabalenka-rejects-sets-to-5-risk-of-injuries-in-womens-tennis\/","title":{"rendered":"Sabalenka rejects sets to 5: Risk of injuries in women&#8217;s tennis."},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Sabalenka Rejects the Idea of Five-Set Matches in Women&#8217;s Tennis<\/h2>\n\nWorld number one, Aryna Sabalenka, has expressed her stance against the implementation of five-set matches for women in Grand Slam tournaments, arguing potential injury risks.\n\nAfter her two-set victory in the first round of Wimbledon, Sabalenka commented on the matter. &#8220;Probably, physically I am one of the strongest, so maybe it would benefit me. But I think I&#8217;m not ready to play five sets,&#8221; she stated.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I think it&#8217;s too much for the women&#8217;s body. I think we&#8217;re not ready for this amount of tennis. It would increase the number of injuries. So I think this is not something I would consider.<\/p><cite>Aryna Sabalenka<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nCurrently, in all women&#8217;s tournaments, matches are played in a best-of-three-sets format. In contrast, men compete in a best-of-five-sets format in Grand Slams and best-of-three in other tournaments.\n\nThe conversation about this change occasionally arises, especially after prominent matches like the French Open final, where Carlos Alcaraz defeated Jannik Sinner in a five-set match that lasted more than five and a half hours.\n\n&#8220;For someone who&#8217;s watching, it&#8217;s incredible to see five hours of great tennis,&#8221; Sabalenka said. &#8220;But as a player, I don&#8217;t envy being there for five hours. I don&#8217;t know how many days they needed to recover after that crazy match.&#8221;\n\nCoco Gauff, world number two, also shared a similar opinion about the five-set format on Saturday.\n\n&#8220;It would favor me from a physical point of view. But I think it would be a big change for the circuit. I think it&#8217;s good to keep it as it is,&#8221; declared the American.\n\nIn her recent match, Sabalenka defeated Carson Branstine (ranked 194) with a score of 6-1, 7-5, in a time of 73 minutes.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sabalenka Rejects the Idea of Five-Set Matches in Women&#8217;s Tennis World number one, Aryna Sabalenka, has expressed her stance against the implementation of five-set matches for women in Grand Slam tournaments, arguing potential injury risks. After her two-set victory in the first round of Wimbledon, Sabalenka commented on the matter. &#8220;Probably, physically I am one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13504,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[816,93,355,167],"class_list":{"0":"post-13503","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-aryna-sabalenka","9":"tag-grand-slam","10":"tag-injuries","11":"tag-tennis"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}