Hydrated by Electrolit, Aryna Sabalenka hires Max Mirnyi ahead of humid summer swing

Cheers! Ahead of her return to tournament play.at the Cincinnati Open, world No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka has teamed up with Electrolit as her new hydration partner.

According to a press release this week, the collaboration will feature Sabalenka in a national campaign for the Mexican-founded sports drink, with brand integration across her tournament appearances and social media. Leaning into its science-backed hydration formula, the brand says that Sabalenka's ambassador status will "build on how she already incorporates Electrolit into her lifestyle."

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"Every match comes down to the little things. How you recover between points, how you handle the heat, how you show up in the final set–it’s all a game of margins,” Sabalenka said in a statement. “Electrolit has been a long-time part of my routine because it keeps me ready. In tournaments, yes. But also through all the hours of training and travel that no one sees. At this level, proper hydration is the difference between reacting late or reading the play in time.”

But Sabalenka hasn't just added a new brand partner to her portfolio ahead of the North American hard-court summer. She has also shored up her coaching team by adding former doubles world No. 1 Max Mirnyi for the upcoming Cincinnati and US Open tournaments.

According to a report in *The Athletic*, Mirnyi was on-court with Sabalenka for her most recent training block after Wimbledon, during which the three-time Grand Slam champion asked her fellow Belarusian to advise her as a consultant.

For the next month, the 10-time Grand Slam doubles champion will join Sabalenka's primary coach Anton Dubrov, performance coach Jason Stacy, and the rest of her already established team—though the report said that "a representative for Sabalenka did not specify the areas on which Mirnyi will focus."

The top seed and defending champion in Cincinnati, Sabalenka will face former Wimbledon champion Marketa Vondrousova in her first match in over a month. The Czech defeated Sabalenka in their last meeting, on grass in Berlin in June.