Aryna Sabalenka builds her perfect WTA player ... with some help!

Aryna Sabalenka is on top of the WTA rankings for a reason. But she needed some help to rise to the occasion of building her ideal tennis player.

After losing three of her last four matches, Sabalenka got back to winning ways at the BNP Paribas Open with a straight-sets win over American McCartney Kessler on Saturday night in Indian Wells. But after coming through in the clutch more than once to beat Kessler, Sabalenka couldn't come through in the post-match press room when a reporter asked her to name some of the WTA tour's superlatives, like best serve, forehand and return.

"I [am] just so much in love with myself on the good days!" she joked after choosing herself for serve, only to be told picking her own shots was off-limits.

Eventually, she named the (other) best serve, forehand, backhand, return of serve, and volley with the help of hitting partner Andrei Vasilevski.

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Aryna Sabalenka's Perfect WTA Player

• Forehand: Madison Keys
• Backhand: Coco Gauff
• Serve: Elena Rybakina
• Return of Serve: Iga Swiatek
• Volley and Slice: Ashleigh Barty

"Just skip this question. I'm so bad," she bemoaned throughout, despite making solid picks. But thinking too hard also tripped Sabalenka up on court in recent weeks, she later explained.

After failing to win a third straight Australian Open title, losing a heartbreaking three-setter to Madison Keys, Sabalenka said she struggled to shake off the disappointment in the Middle East, where she lost before the quarterfinals in both Doha and Dubai to Ekaterina Alexandrova and Clara Tauson, respectively. She showed signs of burnout after the latter, saying "I believe that I'm not that hungry on court."

"I'm kind of like all over the place in my thoughts and not consistent on the court," she added. "The decisions I'm making on the court are a bit wrong and emotionally I'm not on my best."

But crowning the third WTA 1000 event of the year "like a Grand Slam," Sabalenka says she now has a clearer head, making it "not too tough" to get motivated as she hunts an eighth WTA 1000 crown.

"I'd say that the final in Australia, [after, I] was really heartbroken. It was very difficult to recover after that one, and Middle East I was kind of in my thoughts, I was trying to understand," she said. "I was always thinking about that match. It was probably my mistake, but I think I had to go through [this], I had to realize couple of things. I had to kind of like step back and start everything over again."

"Right now, I'm definitely feeling better and that final was in the past. Just a good experience, a great lesson, and hopefully it will never happen again," she grinned.