Tennis
Australian Open: Amazing Korda KOs Medvedev
With a great performance, Sebastian Korda won 3-0 sets against Daniil Medvedev and reached the fourth round of the Australian Open.
Inspired Sebastian Korda played the match of his life at the Rod Laver Arena, beating last year’s Australian Open finalist and this year’s No. 8, Daniil Medvedev, with an incredible straight-set win!
Although he initially seemed to collapse in the third set, the 22-year-old American managed to keep his composure and scored the most important win of his career after three hours of fighting.
The world No. 31 tennis player prevailed 7-6(7) 6-3 7-6(4) to advance to the top 16 in Melbourne, where he was joined by No. 10 on the board, Hubert , will meet Hurkatz.
Huge performance from Korda, resounding exclusion for Medvedev, who will be outside the top 10 in the world rankings after the end of the Australian Open!
The American produced 50 winners, “painted” all the lines and despite the honorable efforts of the 27-year-old Russian, he couldn’t lose with tennis at such a high level that he played.
Despite breaking just one more than his opponent (five to four), Korda was the best player on the court and pushed Medvedev to the limit with his highly aggressive tennis.
When he slipped the qualification in the 3rd set, Medvedev came back from a break (4:2) and headed to 4:5, the American showed his nerves of steel and was able to break out of the lead in a very difficult opportunity, thanks to a flawless tie-break.
When you see the tie-break played by the winner in the 3rd set, it’s easy to understand why the Russian reached this point…
Medvedev’s exclusion from the continuation of the tournament opens the top of the table even further, with Stefanos Tsitsipas now the big favorite to reach the end!
Worth mentioning is the fact that Korda has qualified for the Australian Open “16” for the first time in his career, while in the past he has played in the 4th round of a major tournament twice more (Roland Garros 2020, Wimbledon 2021 ).
Only at the Grand Slam in his hometown (US Open) has he not yet made it into the second week of the game
SOURCE: Tennis24
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Russian tennis player Mirra Andreeva beat the representative of the Philippines Alexandra Eala in the match of the MGM Tennis Masters exhibition tournament, which takes place in Macau.
The meeting ended with Andreeva’s victory with a score of 6:4, 6:2.
The result of the match guaranteed victory for Conchita Martinez’s team, for which the Russian plays, over Li Na’s team. Team Martinez is also represented by Chinese Wu Yibing and Spaniard Alejandro Davidovich Fokina. The tournament takes place from December 27 to 28.
Andreeva is the winner of three WTA tournaments in singles and two in doubles, Olympic silver medalist in pairs, semi-finalist at Roland Garros 2024. Currently, the athlete ranks ninth in the WTA rankings.
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On December 28, there will be an exhibition match between the world’s first rackets in women’s singles. Arina Sabalenko Finalist at Wimbledon 2022 Nick Kyrgios from Australia.
The so-called “Battle of the Sexes” will take place at the arena in Dubai (UAE) and will start at around 18:00 Kiev time on Sunday.
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The winner will be the person who wins two sets. In the event of a change of game, a tiebreaker of up to 10 points will be determined.
Some changes have been made to the fighting rules. First, each person will only have one attempt to send. Secondly, Sabalenka’s court side will be shortened by 9%.
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tennis legend Billie Jean King He stated that the “Battle of the Sexes” match was played between Arina Sabalenko And Nick Kyrgios It’s “not the same” as his breakthrough reunion with Bobby Riggs.
American King defeated self-proclaimed chauvinist Riggs 6:4, 6:3, 6:3 in a $100,000 winner-take-all match in Houston in September 1973.
An estimated 90 million people worldwide watched the 29-year-old King win the bo5 match against the 55-year-old former Wimbledon and US Open singles champion. The fight is considered an important part of the women’s rights movement and the fight for equality in sports.
World number one Sabalenka, 27, will face Wimbledon 2022 finalist Kyrgios, 30, on December 28 in Dubai. The name of the match was “Battle of the Sexes”.
When asked if he saw any similarities between the matches, King said:
“The only similarity is that one is a man and the other is a woman. That’s it. Everything else is not like that. Our match was about social change, it was about the cultural context of 1973. This match is not about that. I hope the match is great and of course I want Sabalenka to win, but it’s not the same thing.”
Some see the match between four-time Grand Slam singles champion Sabalenka and former world No. 13 Kyrgios as harmless fun, but others believe Sabalenka’s defeat could devalue women’s tennis.
The exhibition match will be played over two sets won and if necessary (1-1 in games) a tiebreaker will be decided up to 10 points.
Each player will serve only once, and Sabalenka’s side of the court will be 9% smaller. Tournament organizers Evolve said women moved around the course an average of 9% slower than men, so it was decided to shorten Arina’s portion of the course.
“I played three bo5 sets with Bobby, on normal court, and didn’t change a thing,” King recalls. “I either play under equal conditions, or I don’t play at all,” I said. And Bobby loved it.”
King’s match came months after Riggs, who died in 1995 aged 77, beat world number one Margaret Court 6-1, 6-2 in the opening match of the Battle of the Sexes series.
The match took place the same year King founded the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) and three years after a group of players known as the “Original Nine” left the tennis body.
The match also took place during the passage of Title IX legislation in the United States, which prohibits gender discrimination in all schools and educational programs and guarantees equal conditions, opportunities, and support for men’s and women’s sports teams.
“My match was really political. It was a very difficult time culturally,” King, 82, added. “I knew I had to defeat him for social change.” “I had many reasons to win.”
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