It's been a long time since the Australian Open final, but just recently, celebrity Stubbs once again brought up the old story in her podcast, and she thought that Sabalenka should not have dropped the racket after losing in the final, which is a bad image.

In the women's singles final of this year's Australian Open, world No. 1 Sabalenka lost under the pressure of three consecutive championships, and after the final ball formed the winning point of Case, Sabalenka looked very disappointed. It can be seen from the broadcast footage after the game that Sabalenka first vented her anger at her team, then broke her racket, and then sat directly and cried, but after going to the locker room to adjust her emotions, Sabalenka still showed her generous and tolerant side at the award ceremony, and praised Keith. After the game, many fans also praised Sabalenka's move, thinking that Sabalenka's performance at the award ceremony was very decent and generous, and she was a champion who could afford to lose!

However, legend Stubbs expressed a different view, and in her opinion, Sabalenka's emotional loss after the game was due to her feeling that Case's penultimate return was out of bounds.

The tennis legend explained specifically on the show, "When you see her reacting to her box, she's basically saying that she thinks the ball is out of bounds, but breaking the racket is not a good image for her. She's usually a good loser, and she's always graceful in her speeches, but you can't take away the joy of that moment from Keys. ”

In fact, this is not the first time that Sabalenka has broken her racket after losing in the final, in the 2023 US Open women's singles final, Sabalenka broke her entire racket in the lounge after losing to Gauff in three sets and winning the runner-up. In this regard, many fans also expressed their understanding, "Losing in such an important game is that people will feel angry, and no one stipulates that players can't vent their emotions by throwing rackets, no!" This does not mean that she is dissatisfied with the winning side, but purely dissatisfied with her own performance, and we should understand this emotion! ”

And after this year's Australian Open women's singles final, although Sabalenka also showed cathartic performances such as wrestling, the vast majority of fans understood this very well.

Some fans said, "Professional players often have to bear huge mental pressure and external expectations to play, in this spirit needs to be tense all the time, there must be some emotional outlets, no one is superhuman, when we treat them with excessive morality, we should also be clear, they are also people, they also have emotions." Another fan said, "This is normal! If rackets are a sin, then 99.3% of the players in the entire tennis world are guilty, everyone has a different way of venting their emotions, but they should not be blamed too much because they have to take into account what they are going through. ”

In addition, some netizens picked up that Stubbs had previously talked about Zheng Qinwen's performance in the face of defeat, and commented that his response to this was too "cold and short".

Stubbs had a very different view at the time, and strongly supported that Zheng Qinwen was not a "man who can't afford to lose", but it was difficult to maintain a positive attitude after losing. At the time, she said: "I think Zheng Qinwen is the kind of player who always feels pain after a loss, not that she is a bad loser, but she always feels a strong sense of pain when she loses. Sabalenka also felt pain, but they reacted in a completely different way. Maybe Zheng Qinwen can be like her in the future, less irritable after losing. ”

In this regard, some fans commented, "It's hard not to believe that she is a contradictory and double-standard person, for Sabalenka and Zheng Qinwen, she obviously has a deep prejudice against Sabalenka, and for Zheng Qinwen, she is very tolerant, which is a position that a critic should not have." Another fan said, "In fact, Zheng Qinwen's performance after the game is much worse than Sabalenka's performance many times, Sabalenka is really much more mature than Zheng Qinwen in this aspect, but obviously, what we see is that the celebrity turns a blind eye to him, and Sabalenka is particularly harsh." ”(Source: Tennis Home Author: Lu Xiaotian)