Tennis pro Aryna Sabalenka joins GQ Sports to reveal her 10 Essentials. The Belarusian tennis player breaks down her daily essentials: from her Whoop bracelets (“the most steps I have done is 39,000 steps on a match day”) to her camera (“after this season, I’m going to frame the photos”). Watch the full episode of GQ Sports’ 10 Essentials, as Aryna Sabalenka reveals 10 things she can’t live without.
00:03Hi GQ, this is Irina Sublenka and this is the things that I cannot live without.
00:19The first essential is, and this is, I mean obviously the most important one, my Wilson tennis bag.
00:27I mean, how can I live without this beauty? And I love Wilson, it's my dream brand.
00:33I play with Wilson since I was a kid. They're not doing this with every player, so it means like you achieve something and having these things on my back, it's just a dream, you know.
00:43I have four rackets, my team have an extra four, it depends what tension I need and it's tennis shoes, tennis stuff, lots of stuff.
00:52It's so heavy actually in the match day, honestly I need someone to help carry it for me.
00:57So pretty, this little cat situation.
01:01I was born in the era of Tiger and I always felt like a fighter on court.
01:06That's true, you have to fight every single point.
01:10So I thought like it's a good reminder to have on my arm that I have to keep fighting no matter what.
01:17So it's just a little inspiration for myself.
01:23Another essential is my book bracelet and lots of straps for it.
01:28Like I have all of the colors you could possibly imagine.
01:36I love it. I can match my outfits on court, but usually I go for like this kind of colors.
01:42These crazy ones, it's just like when I have a crazy outfit on court, so to match it I have crazy colors.
01:49We have limited edition Tiger, Tiger strap.
01:53It's so beautiful I think and so powerful.
01:56And I love VOOP because it tracks everything.
01:59It tracks your sleep, your HRV, even the blood oxygen.
02:04Yeah, you can check anything you want there and I love it and it's so helpful.
02:08I think the most I check my sleep.
02:11Just out of curiosity, I check my steps.
02:15And it's cool to see how many steps you do when you play a match.
02:19The most was 39,000 steps on the match day and off day it was 8,000.
02:25It's crazy, it's a lot.
02:27And then when you have a day off you like it feels like you're just doing nothing.
02:31Kind of like predict that you're getting sick, so it's also very helpful.
02:35Like imagine you're playing like a big tournament and your VOOP is telling you that
02:39well like your blood oxygen is going low.
02:42You have to take care of your health and take some supplements.
02:46So you're kind of like ahead of it.
02:49So it's very, very helpful.
02:53And my favorite product, that's my next essential.
02:57I love it.
02:58Honestly, it's so healthy, full of good ingredients.
03:01And whenever I drink it I feel so energetic.
03:04I feel healthy, my digestion is much better.
03:08It's also good for your beauty, for everything.
03:11And honestly, yeah, I feel so bad when I'm not taking it in the morning.
03:15It's like my morning shot.
03:16When I have a match, I try to stay healthy.
03:18No sugar, lots of vitamins, meat, salad, a little bit of carbs, of course.
03:24If I feel like I'm getting like sick a little bit, I take it twice a day.
03:29Next day I'm like a new person.
03:31So it's good for a bunch of things.
03:35One of my essentials is this beautiful of the Marpeke watch.
03:38It's a special piece.
03:40I was given this watch when I won US Open 2024.
03:44And it has my initials there.
03:46Just has like sabi and the year when I won US Open.
03:50So this piece feels so special.
03:53And it's so beautiful though, I have to say.
03:55I've got some beautiful pieces.
03:57It's the Royal Oak Rainbow.
04:00It's a golden Royal Oak with a beautiful blue dial.
04:04What else have I got?
04:05I've got like Royal Oak Mini.
04:07Every gold, yellow, rose gold, white gold.
04:11So I've got some beautiful pieces from them.
04:13They're the best.
04:14Sometimes I have a watch and I put my outfit around it.
04:17Sometimes I have to go through all of my watches and pick the right one for my outfit.
04:21So it goes both ways.
04:23I became a watch person.
04:24You know, like you got your piece and next day you want another one.
04:28Who has the best watches on the tour?
04:30Me.
04:33I have the best watches on the tour.
04:35And my boyfriend probably.
04:36So next essential is my Nike Leggings.
04:43I absolutely love them.
04:45It's so comfortable to practice, to just walk around, go shopping, whatever.
04:52It's the best you could ever get.
04:55And it's shape your body so good.
04:58I love working with Nike because it's unique, it's special.
05:02And growing up, that was the brand I was wearing the most.
05:04And it was like a dream of mine to work with this beautiful brand.
05:09And for me, it's important to look good on court, have good quality stuff,
05:13have really different outfits, like fun ones.
05:17And yeah, it's been just a dream of mine.
05:21And I think Nike covering it all, it's like so fashion.
05:27So next essentially is my beautiful headphones.
05:30And they're so cool and so stylish and so different to the rest of the brands.
05:35And also the sound is amazing.
05:37It's very important, you know, and it's also block the sound from the outside.
05:41It's not like vintage, but like old school.
05:43And I love old school stuff.
05:45So it's a perfect match for me.
05:46When people ask like my pretty much playlist, it's always different.
05:51Like I cannot say like, okay, just this song.
05:53No, it's always depends on my mood.
05:56I am a big fan of Teddy Swim, so lose control.
05:59It's kind of like, it's not old, but it's already old song, but I love that one.
06:03This headphones is so cool because it was matching my Australia Open outfit.
06:08And I love when you work with the brands and you can do cool stuff together, like unique pieces.
06:16And we got the next essential is the travel perfume.
06:21I love this brand because they have so many unique scents.
06:24And for me, it's very important not to smell like everyone.
06:27So I love this brand because they full of cool cells.
06:31I've got this little travel kit.
06:34Very useful because you know, like I don't want to travel with like heavy stuff.
06:38I've got a lot.
06:39They all smell so cool.
06:40This one is so good.
06:43So moving to the next one, I've got this beautiful and the best sunscreen ever.
06:52It's very important to take care of your skin and you always on the sun.
06:55And it's very important to have a good one with the good ingredients in it and healthy.
07:00And also the one is perfect for playing sport.
07:03I got this one and I love to use it, use it all the time.
07:06It's so good because when you sweat, most of the sunscreens, they start dripping to your eyes and it's like makes it complicated.
07:13And you always have to take it off and it doesn't help honestly.
07:17And this one is just like stayed there and it doesn't go down and it just, yeah.
07:23The skin observe it so good and it's very healthy and very good for athletes and for people, just for everyone.
07:34Oh, that's my love.
07:39Always have it in my back.
07:41Fujifil camera.
07:42It's not like an old thing, but I like this like little pictures coming out.
07:46Like you keep it in the album.
07:48It's kind of like memories when I was a kid and you had a lot of pictures.
07:53How do you call it?
07:54Like in the albums, like actual pictures, not like the phone situation.
07:59It's so beautiful and it has like beautiful filter and I'm taking fun moments with this camera.
08:06And after this season, I'm going to frame it, like put it like in the frame and put it on the wall like 20, 25 years.
08:16So I love it.
08:17I hope I'm going to have a lot of cool, cool moments to capture with this beautiful, beautiful camera.
08:23Smile.
08:29And of course, my next essential is face masks.
08:33I got a bunch of them because we're on the sun all the time and it's kind of like damaging your skin.
08:40So you really have to take care of it.
08:42And also as you get older, you see some stuff and you, you want to take care of it.
08:46You know, you, you don't want to get older too soon.
08:49My favorite, like a calming mask.
08:52It just, it just cools it down.
08:54It takes off the inflammation, the redness and it just so healthy.
