This was a $2.7 million Premier 5 event that had, for a second or two at the beginning of the week, included most of the WTA’s Top 10. What other reaction could he have? Sabalenka plowed through another quality opponent, Anett Kontaveit, 6-3, 6-3, to win her second and most important title, at the Dongfeng Motor Open. Tursunov spent Saturday in Wuhan watching Sabalenka the way he always watches her: With a slight smile, of bemusement and amazement, at what she was throwing down and pulling off on court. “She could be the person that changes the game the way Serena changed the game, or the way Seles changed the game, or the way Graf changed the game,” Tursunov told WTA Insider earlier this week. Not that he doesn’t share everyone else’s excitement over Sabalenka and her unique talent. Has a bandwagon ever filled up quite as quickly, or enthusiastically, as the one that has been following Aryna Sabalenka around the world over the last four months? The 20-year-old’s own coach, Dmitry Tursunov, says that even he has been a little stunned by the intensity of the attention she has received.
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