The Year Sabalenka Arrived at the U.S. Open

Aryna Sabalenka made her U.S. Open debut in 2018, eight years before this year's tournament got underway. For Palm Beach's tennis-watching set, who treat the majors as part of the season's rhythm as much as anything on the club calendar, that debut marks the beginning of the story now being told about her time there. It is the plain fact behind any retrospective of her run at the tournament — before anything else gets written about how she has looked or played there, this is where it started.

With reporting from Town & Country.