"It's obvious that he's smart": Aryna Sabalenka credits training session with Andre Agassi for form improvement

World number one Aryna Sabalenka has revealed that the advice of Andre Agassi has helped her improve her play at the Indian Wells this year. The 26-year-old is often regarded as one of the best players currently playing in women’s tennis in the singles category along with the likes of Poland’s Iga Swiatek and America’s Coco Gauff.

Sabalenka is currently taking part in the WTA 1000 event in Indian Wells, where she booked her place in round 16 after beating Italy’s Lucia Bronzetti in straight sets with a score of 6-1 and 6-2. The results will be extremely pleasing for Sabalenka as she entered the competition after losing the first-round contest at the Qatar Open and second-round tie at the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championship 2025.

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Sabalenka has been recently quoted in a report where she gives credit to the former men’s world number one Agassi for helping her overturn the poor run of form. The Minsk-born star also stated that she was impressed with how good Agassi still is despite taking retirement from professional tennis back in 2006.

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"A lot of things. We actually had a great chat after the exhibition and I mean it's obvious that he's smart (chuckles). We had really great chat, he gave me his advice on tennis which actually working so, thank you Andre," she said. "He's such a nice guy and he is timing his tennis is still ready good, and I was really impressed by his timing and he was like, "Oh I am not training that much, I am not playing tennis" and then he serves, and his serve is better than mine. I'm like the timing, I was like okay, I think we are doing something wrong. But it was fun playing that exhibition especially like playing with Andre it was fun."

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