us open 2025 tennis calendar vacation aryna sabalenka.

When the professional tennis tours moved to North America for the tournaments leading into the U.S. Open, Aryna Sabalenka was on vacation. The defending champion in New York skipped an event in Montreal and instead went to Greece because she said she needed a break. Many players understand. Their sport’s season is so long, and the offseason so short, that they don’t wait until the end of the year to chill. Sometimes, they figure, vacation must come during the season. In team sports, there is an ample offseason, so players have time to travel and rest. But for some tennis players, theirs is barely a month.