Azarenka Claims She Never Thought Number One Rank Was At Stake

Written by: on 29th January 2013
Tennis Australian Open 2013
Azarenka Claims She Never Thought Number One Rank Was At Stake

epa03554359 Victoria Azarenka of Belarus during a training session at the Australian Open Grand Slam tennis tournament in Melbourne, Australia, 25 January 2013. Azarenka will play the women's final on January 26th. EPA/Dennis Sabangan  |

Victoria Azarenka held off a possible takeover at the top of women’s tennis from absent Serena Williams by winning her second Australian Open title with a 4-6, 6-4, 6-3 victory over China’s Li Na.

 

But the Belarus winners insists that the thought of her fragile ranking didn’t enter her mind.

 

“I never thought about that, I never thought about the number one ranking,”said the woman whose title guaranteed her the top spot for the immediate future.

 

“The pressure was there, but I like the pressure, it’s interesting. It pushes you to be better. You can take it different way. You can take it negative and try to think negative.

 

“But I take it as a positive, something that will push me forward to improve, to get better, and the outcome is out of my hands. I just have to be really focused on what I do,

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