Ukraine’s first racket Elina Svitolina (WTA 14) became the “Opening Week” participant of the Australian Open 2026.

On January 14, 2026, the Ukrainian will play an exhibition match against Amanda Anisimova (USA, WTA 4) at the tournament’s main stadium, Rod Laver Arena.

The meeting will be held in the format of two standard sets as the deciding game and a super tiebreak up to 10 points.

There will also be four more exhibition matches: Elena Rybakina – Zheng Qingwen, Alexander Zverev – Lorenzo Musetti, Carlos Alcaraz – Alex de Minaur, Jannik Sinner – Felix Auger-Aliassime.

After the match between Svitolina and Anisimova, Rod Laver Arena will host the AO 1 Point Slam tournament, where tennis stars Iga Swiatek, Jannik Sinner, Carlos Alcaraz, Coco Gauff, Naomi Osaka, Daniil Medvedev, Zheng Qingwen, Felix Auger-Aliassime and Jasmine Paolini will compete against amateurs.

Sport.ua presents the schedule and results of matches of Ukrainian tennis players at the ITF World Tour tournaments from December 15 to 21

men

M15 Antalya (Türkiye – location), Antalya Series

Singles, elimination, first round

• Maxim Khlyvnyuk (Ukraine) – Ibrahim Yego (Kenya) – absent
• Filip Pavic (Kosovo) – Andrey Bilata (Ukraine) – without

Singles, qualifiers, second round

• Maxim Khlyvnyuk (Ukraine) – Stefanos Schinas (Greece, 15) – 23.12, at 10:00 at the latest
• Alexandru Balan (Canada, 6) – Andrey Bilata (Ukraine) – 23.12, 12:30 at the latest

Singles, first round

• TVA – Nikita Bilozertsev (Ukraine, 6) –TVA
• TVA – Ilya Biloborodko (Ukraine) –TVA
• TVA – Alexander Ovcharenko (Ukraine, 2) –TVA

Doubles, first round

• Dillon Beckles (USA) and Alexander Wagner (Austria) – Nikita Bilozertsev (Ukraine) and Alp Horoz (Türkiye) – TVA
• William Mirarchi (Italy) and Daniil Stepanov – Mihai Marinescu (Romania) and Alexander Ovcharenko (Ukraine, 4) –TVA

M15 Monastir (Tunisia – difficult), FTT by Magic Hotel Tours

Singles, elimination, first round

• Kazuki Nishiwaki (Japan, 6) – Arseniy Mironov (Ukraine) – 6:0, 6:0

Women

W15 Antalya (Türkiye – ground), Antalya Series

Singles, elimination, first round

• Anastasia Necule (Romania) – Yaroslava Sribnaya (Ukraine) –TVA
• Arina Yakusheva (Ukraine) – Naz Kaynak (Türkiye) – TVA
• Jamie Collinson (Australia) – Helen Grab (Ukraine) –TVA
• Serafima Vasilyeva (Ukraine) – Öykü Şahbaz (Ukraine) – none

Singles, qualifiers, second round

• Eva Galievskaya (Ukraine, 6) – Honoka Uchiyama (Japan) or Alisa Aksiyanova – TVA
• Serafima Vasilyeva (Ukraine) – Sabina Shaidullina or Ema Garayda (Czech Republic, 14) – TVA

Doubles, first round

• Asylzhan Arystanbekova (Kazakhstan) and Ingkar Dyusebay (Kazakhstan) – Sara Balan (Romania) and Eva Galievskaya (Ukraine) –TVA
• Nanari Katsumi (Romania) and Honoka Uchiyama (Japan) – Helen Grab (Ukraine) and Arina Yakusheva (Ukraine) –TVA

20-year-old American tennis player Lerner Tien (ATP 28) Became the winner of the ATP 2025 Junior Final Tournament.

The Americans were defeated in the final of the competition held on indoor courts in Jeddah (Saudi Arabia). Alexander Blox (Belgium, ATP 116) 1 hour 1 minute.

Next Generation ATP Finals 2025. Final, December 21

Lerner Tien (AMERICA) [1] –Alexander Blox (Belgium) [2] – 4:3 (7:4), 4:2, 4:1

Tien played in the Next Generation finals for the second time. He lost to João Fonseca in the decisive match in 2024.

Lerner suffered one defeat, losing to Rafael Hodar in the first round of the group stage in Jeddah. He then defeated Blox as well as Martin Landaluse, Nikolay Budkov Kjaer and Nishesh Basavareddy.

Tien becomes the second Youth Finals champion after Brandon Nakashima – Nakashima won the Next Gen award in 2022.

Lerner Thien received $502,250 in prize money for his victory at the Next Gen ATP Finals 2025.

Photo gallery of the award ceremony