US Open champ Sloane Stephens is still 'shocked' from her big win

Twenty-four-year-old Sloane Stephens, oh my goodness, she's the new West Open

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ion. I had the opportunity to sit down with her about her big victory and her secret weapon. Her mother Sybil Smith. Congratulations. Thank you. I always wanted to do it. winning a Slam like I thought about it I never imagined myself in that situation like winning the last point like all that like the dramatic fall and all those things like I never saw it and then what happened. I thought, wait, what do I do? Now I like it, I cry, why don't you get on the ground?

I'm not sure. I was so surprised, but also that moment when you recognized your mother when I was 11 years old. My mother took me to a tennis court. academy and you said that coach who said maybe you would make it to Division Two maybe and your mom said no, parents don't get enough credit and I think if you have a parent who can support you in the best way possible and especially in a sport like I just wanted to let people know that your son could be me if you had amazing parents, that's what we do, we support, we love unconditionally, what was it like for you to see your daughter win.

I saw every point and it was just exciting. but I was so proud from the first point that she went out and fought, you know that made me feel good, that she was on her way to her goal, no matter what happened, she was there, she did it, are you so calm sitting in box? Oh, maybe outside, but you know, I do a lot of meditation, so I think I breathe. I try to stay calm and stay in the moment. Are you always eating a million? No, I played a match once against someone and it was me.

She was playing like a really good player and it was super tight in the third set too and I was like mom, you look so uncomfortable up there, like it's wrong, like you're fine and she told me no, it's fine, I'm just counting from a million. It's true, but you know you just have to find a way to stay calm and stay in the moment. A year ago you weren't even in the US Open. You know, I miss life. I know you missed the last one at the beginning of the year. you have the surgery, you go back to Wimbledon, you know you didn't get the result you wanted, no one wants to get injured, yeah, but you made the best of that time and you seem to have come back refreshed, relaxed, renewed, renewed, yeah, how did you do it? ?

You get here and I thought, you know what, eventually I'm going to beat someone so it's just a matter of time and then coming to the US Open I thought, wow, I'm flying really well, this is shocking because I only had what this was. My fifth tournament ago and then I did an interview with someone like four days before the final and he said, "You know in four days you can win the US Open" and I was like, "He was really like me. Wow, the best day of all the time, seriously, oh God." God, this is what gets me and you like it, this is crazy, but so many people like all these people and I'm like, oh my God, I love it, I love it like they know who I am, they know I exist.

I see it to make sure. and yesterday and it was the best thing I've ever done. I asked her to design my wedding dress and she said, of course, I'm an absolute delight, but she really relaxed with you, but she seemed to be in shock after that, oh, she admits it. like she said she didn't know how to react and everyone was talking too when shadow if you saw this when she got the check for 3.7 million and her reaction and Wow and she just had no idea and said she would have been watching with her. mom and saw that the semi-finalist was 900,000 and she thought it would be a lot, so in her mind she was thinking that maybe I would get there before you, that was the future, but you know, her mom is quite an athlete, the first of the Boston University.

Incredible all-American swimmer, yes and a great role model. Look at these. She could have been with them all her life. I know. Can I go next time? Well hello GMA fans, Robin Roberts, thank you for visiting our YouTube channel. There are a lot of great things here. so continue click the subscribe button here to get more amazing GMA videos and content every day anytime. We thank you for watching and we'll see you in the morning on GMA.