Aryna Sabalenka claps back at the haters while living her best life

Sabalenka's earlier-than-expected exit from Wimbledon has resulted in one positive, as it gave her an opportunity to take a well-deserved extended holiday ahead of the North American hard-court swing.

The world No 1 started the grass-court Grand Slam as one of the favourites, but she was upset by 14th seed Naomi Osaka in the fourth round with the four-time major champion securing a comfortable 6-2, 7-6(7-2) win.

Unsurprisingly, it was a despondent Sabalenka who appeared in the post-match press conference as she told journalists: "Obviously, guys, if you were expecting something really fun, not going to happen. Probably just going to be short answers.

"It's the TikTok that's why you lost Wimbledon," one wrote while another added: "Cut back on social media, focus on tennis. We watch you more on social media than on the tennis courts."

The 28-year-old has treated herself to a vacation in Mykonos, Greece, and she has clearly taken note of those comments as a new Tiktok video of her sipping on a cocktail had the following comment written: "Waking up to comments that say I care more about tiktok than tennis, that I don't deserve to be world number one and that I need to fix my attitude."

The post was accompanied by the caption: "Thank you guys for the advice!"

It was followed by a second video of Sabalenka and a friend having fun in the pool, drinking cocktails stating: "My version of therapy."

Sabalenka still have a lot of free time on her hands before she returns to action as her next WTA Tour event is the Canadian Open with the WTA 1000 tournament getting underway on 3 August in Toronto. She did play in Canada last year as she withdrew from the tournament due to fatigue following a run to the semi-final at Wimbledon.

And there is good news and bad news in terms of her No 1 ranking battle with Elena Rybakina ahead of the WTA 1000 tournament.

Rybakina is now just 407 points behind the Belarusian in the Live WTA Rankings, but Sabalenka doesn't have any points to defend following her absence last year while the Kazakh star reached the semi-finals so will drop 390 points, meaning the gap will grow before they have hit a shot in Toronto.

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