Aryna Sabalenka forced to apologise for winning the Australian Open as she sends unexpected message to fans

Aryna Sabalenka has apologized for winning the Australian Open final.

The all-conquering tennis star felt compelled to send a message to Chinese fans after beating his own Qinwen Zheng in a one-sided demolition in Melbourne.

‘Hello guys, here I am with the trophy. I’m so sorry, I know you all support Qinwen, I understand this,” Sabalenka said in a video posted on Chinese social media platform Weibo.

“Anyway, thanks a lot for all the support, I love playing in China, hopefully I’ll come back to China this year.

“Thank you so much and see you soon,” she finished, blowing a kiss to her fans.

After the match, a devastated Zheng paid the champion his due.

“Congratulations to Aryna for having such a great match here,” Zheng said.

‘I didn’t try my best. That’s a shame for me, because I really want to show better than that.’

Sabalenka dedicated the 6-3, 6-2 victory over Zheng to her family, telling them, “I love you so much… Everything I do, I do for you,” as she held the trophy in the middle . court after her heartbreaking gesture.

Sabalenka revealed the ambition she and her father Sergey discussed in season one of the Netflix series Break Point.

‘Four years ago I lost my father. “We had one dream: that I would win a few Grand Slams before I was 25,” she said.

‘When he passed away, I started thinking about it too much. Now I’m 24 and have zero in my pocket.’

The Belarusian world number 2 changed that when she broke through to win her first Australian Open crown by beating Elena Rybakina last year – and broke down after the match as she remembered her father.

In scenes captured in the second season of Break Point, Sabalenka was on the phone with her mother in the locker room after the win when they started talking about her father.

“Mommy, don’t cry, I’m starting to cry, cameras are filming me here,” she says.

“Mom, don’t start talking about Dad, dammit.”