Watch the bizarre moment a furious Aryna Sabalenka throws a RACKET at her coach in the stands at the US Open… before turning match around to beat US star Madison Keys

Aryna Sabalenka ended Thursday evening as a happy US Open finalist, but just hours earlier she cut a much angrier figure as her match against Madison Keys appeared to spiral out of control.

After losing the first set 6-0, Sabalenka hit a return into the net and ended up trailing 2-1 in the second set.

Sabalenka slammed her racket after losing the match and picked up a new one her coach had left for her, but tried to throw the original one back into the stands.

The attempt failed, with the Belarusian throwing the racket short and bouncing off her coach’s hand onto the ground.

“Even that falls short,” ESPN announcer Chris Fowler joked.

Keys lost the last two sets via tiebreak, ending her tournament in the semifinals

From then on, Sabalenka completely turned her performance around as she fought to tiebreak wins in the second and third sets to advance to the final.

And she saw the humor in her earlier behavior after finding herself just one match away from winning her second Slam.

“They’re fired, they’re not my team anymore,” she told ESPN afterward, according to the New York Post.

‘It’s all their fault. No no no. … We talked about if I need to let go of those emotions, I need to do that. Otherwise I’ll just eat myself from the inside out. So I was just like yelling, screaming, cursing at them.

‘They know I still love them. It’s for the better, and for a good reason.’

Sabalenka will be given a day to recover from her grueling two-and-a-half-hour match against Keys before facing Coco Gauff in the final.