2026 US OPEN WOMEN'S FINAL RECAP: Rybakina Takes Down Sabalenka , Shelton vs Zverev Preview & More

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**SPEAKER_4** (1:25)
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**Andy Roddick** (1:35)
What is it?

**SPEAKER_4** (1:36)
Have I done? Gosh, it feels like the first time, guys.

**Andy Roddick** (1:39)
You know, it's not the first time as Rybakina winning slams.

**SPEAKER_4** (1:41)
Hey, there we go.

**Andy Roddick** (1:43)
Winning her third slam just now against Aryna Sabalenka in three sets. Dominant in the third set. It feels kind of right. It would have felt like a little weird to get to number one and like not win the tour. You know, this is like a well-packaged ending for Rybakina. I thought she was fantastic in the match. Her game is just, she has easy power. It never looks like she's swinging that hard. And the ball just kind of comes off the racket. But obviously won two slams this year.
I don't know. Let's just run back the predictions from last year. Do we have that clip anywhere? Are we going to get that one?

**SPEAKER_2** (2:23)
I think we already put it out.

**Andy Roddick** (2:24)
Oh, you did?

**SPEAKER_2** (2:24)
Way to go, guys.

**Andy Roddick** (2:26)
Look at you.

**SPEAKER_4** (2:26)
We already put it out. You called it.

**Andy Roddick** (2:27)
Look at you. Well, long way to go. She has to finish the year on number one, but I don't think there's any doubt that she's player of the year with two slam wins.
I'm not great, but like two seems more than one.

**SPEAKER_4** (2:42)
Yeah, two seems pretty good.

**Andy Roddick** (2:43)
Yeah. And she'll be defending the WTA final as well, right? She has a lot of points coming off. I'm watching the speech here, kind of looking at it as we go, and I see Aryna becoming emotional, and I just always think about like we're the only sport that makes someone go talk immediately after they're done. And I know some people go, well, everyone does press. No, I understand that. But there's a big difference between going and collecting yourself for like 45 minutes or an hour and going straight out there, fresh off of it. But anyways, just amazing work from Rybakina to go from potentially not playing the tournament and then never having progressed past the fourth round in New York, to winning the tournament, beating Coco and Sabalenka back to back.
It's tough to argue against her number one ranking right now.

**SPEAKER_4** (3:35)
Yeah.

**Andy Roddick** (3:36)
It's tough to argue that she's not the best player in the world as we currently stand.

**SPEAKER_4** (3:41)
We talked about it last night, but it was a fairly scary injury, or at least looked like it could be a scary injury with a potential Achilles injury. So I think just mentally to re-center yourself, come to a tournament like you said that they haven't done well. It was an impressive run.

**Andy Roddick** (3:57)
It was fantastic. I hope we hear more from her. I hope she gets out there and I hope we maybe develop more of a relationship where we know her personality a little bit more because she is just so fantastic to watch. She's such a good ball striker. Her serve as someone who just loves watching great service motions, it's so simple. And she can hit all the spots.