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Aryna Sabalenka is currently a dominant No. 1 on the WTA rankings, now a few thousand points ahead of her chief rival, world No. 2 Iga Swiatek—and there are a few sections of the season where she's particularly dominant, like in Australia (where she's 33-2 since the start of 2023) and at the hard-court Grand Slams (where she's also 33-2 since the start of 2023).

And there's another section of the season where she's starting to build the same level of domination: tournaments in the United States.

By capturing her first Miami Open title on Saturday, which she capped with a 7-5, 6-2 championship victory over Jessica Pegula, Sabalenka has now won 23 of her last 24 matches on American soil, the only loss since last August coming to Mirra Andreeva in the Indian Wells final two weeks ago.

And she even won the first set in that match, 6-2.

Meanwhile, in that time, she's picked up her third Grand Slam title at the US Open, as well as WTA 1000 trophies at Cincinnati and now Miami.

Of her 23 wins on American soil since last August, she was only pushed to three sets once.

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Even scarier: Sabalenka is also 46-3 in sets in the United States since last August. Apart from the two sets she lost to Andreeva, she only lost one other set, to Ekaterina Alexandrova in the third round of the US Open.

SABALENKA IN THE U.S. SINCE AUGUST 2024 (23-1):

d. Cocciaretto in '24 Cincinnati 2nd Rd, 6-3, 6-4
d. Svitolina in '24 Cincinnati 3rd Rd, 7-5, 6-2
d. Samsonova in '24 Cincinnati QFs, 6-3, 6-2
d. Swiatek in '24 Cincinnati SFs, 6-3, 6-3
d. Pegula in '24 Cincinnati F, 6-3, 7-5
d. Hon in '24 US Open 1st Rd, 6-3, 6-3
d. Bronzetti in '24 US Open 2nd Rd, 6-3, 6-1
d. Alexandrova in '24 US Open 3rd Rd, 2-6, 6-1, 6-2
d. Mertens in '24 US Open 4th Rd, 6-2, 6-4
d. Zheng in '24 US Open QFs, 6-1, 6-2
d. Navarro in '24 US Open SFs, 6-3, 7-6
d. Pegula in '24 US Open F, 7-5, 7-5
d. Kessler in '25 Indian Wells 2nd Rd, 7-6, 6-3
d. Bronzetti in '25 Indian Wells 3rd Rd, 6-1, 6-2
d. Kartal in '25 Indian Wells 4th Rd, 6-1, 6-2
d. Samsonova in '25 Indian Wells QFs, 6-2, 6-3
d. Keys in '25 Indian Wells SFs, 6-0, 6-1
l. to Andreeva in '25 Indian Wells F, 2-6, 6-4, 6-3
d. Tomova in '25 Miami 2nd Rd, 6-3, 6-0
d. Ruse in '25 Miami 3rd Rd, 6-1 ret.
d. Collins in '25 Miami 4th Rd, 6-4, 6-4
d. Zheng in '25 Miami QFs, 6-2, 7-5
d. Paolini in '25 Miami SFs, 6-2, 6-2
d. Pegula in '25 Miami F, 7-5, 6-2

Sabalenka's dominant run in the U.S. will go to sleep for a few months now, as she's not scheduled to play in Charleston next week, and will likely play again on American soil at Washington D.C. or Cincinnati in the summer.