Tennis
Validolin. How did the Ukrainians react to Kalinina’s victory over the Russians?
The 1/32 final match of the prestigious WTA 1000 series tournament held in Dubai on Monday, February 20, took place between Ukraine’s first racket. Angelina Kalinina and Russian Veronika Kudermetova.
In the three-hour thriller, Angelina still managed to beat Kudermetova. After winning the first set, Kalinina won 5-2 against Veronica in the second set, but lost 5 games in a row. However, in the third installment, the Ukrainian managed to jam his opponent and interrupted the winning streak of up to 9 games against the Ukrainian tennis players.
After the meeting, Kalinina did not shake hands with the Russian woman, but, touching the rackets, thanked her opponent for the game. As one of the Ukrainian fans said: “The main thing is that I didn’t put shit on my hand.”
Naturally, this victory of the first racket of Ukraine against the representative of the terror country could not please the Ukrainian fans. Many compared Angelina to the legendary Elina Svitolina, who during her illustrious career often outstripped almost won matches.
smack: “Two important events: the arrival of Biden and the destruction of the z-Tatar”.
Stanislav Matusevych: “Angelina won completely our way and created problems for herself. In the end at least one of the Ukrainians beat this Katsap misunderstanding. And then it will be interesting, because many times in serious tournaments the draw gave a chance for Ukrainian derbies and almost always did not happen. Elina and Martha AO They played in Elina and Dayana Yuso, who else will remember? There was no contention in those matches, how will it be now? After all, the match is interesting, the two tennis players are radically different in terms of playing styles.
Alejandro: “Validolina…)”.
Aerobus43: “Bravo, young lady… a little worried, but the end result is worth it.”
Introvert: “The stories about our tennis maidens and the court are scarier than the story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. As soon as they realize that victory is here, at one step their hands begin to tremble, the game disappears, and instead of a professional tennis player, a kind of caricatured twin remains on the court. I was surprised that he managed to lose afterward).”
Alex James: “5-2, surrender for the game. No, you need to bring it to validol.
Golf Cigar: “We did this together… There were four of us (in the match – ed.), a group of Russians… We knocked them down.”
Andrew: I can’t pass. I’m proud.”
Volodymyr Kovalenko: “Lucky! 2nd set failed, too many doubles, lost serve, not enough moves.
Slavarost: “Finally, at least one of us nailed this goat.”
Zoya Kovtun: “Finally! A miracle has happened!”
Tatyana Mogilei: “Good people, what’s going on? We won 5:2 but then we flew away… No, you had to run around the court to get your feet wet in the sea an hour ago. Ah…
Source: Sport UA
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Saying goodbye to professional tennis in 2025 retired 27 players.
The most famous are Richard Gasquet, Fabio Fognini, Fernando Verdasco, Vasek Pospisil and Diego Schwartzman.
Ukrainian Vladislav Manafov He did not compete at the professional level for the entire year but did not announce his retirement.
He completed his professional career
Grégoire Barrere- Richardas Berankis
- Rohan Bopanna
- Pedro Cachin
- Salvatore Caruso
- Marius Kopil
- Marcus Daniell
- Ivan Dodig
- kyle edmund
- Ernesto Escobedo
- Christopher Eubanks
- Jonathan Esserick
- Fabio Fognini
- Richard Gasquet
- Martin Klizan
- Denis Kudla
- Gianluca the Wizard
- Nicolas Mahut
- Matve Middelkop
- Dennis Novak
- Vašek Pospisil
- Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi
- Albert Ramos-Vinolas
- Tim van Ruythoven
- Luke Saville
- Diego Schwartzman
- Fernando Verdasco
Tennis players who did not play during 2025 but did not announce their retirement
- André Begemann
- 🏳️ Teimuraz Gabashvili
- Fred Gil
- Emilio Gomez
- Marcel Ilhan
- 🏳️ Andrey Kuznetsov
- Juan Ignacio Londero
- Vladislav Manafov
- Fabrice Martin
- Gerald Meltzer
- Gonzalo Oliveira*
- Max Purcell**
- Milos Raonic
- Hunter Reese
- Blaj Rola
- Tennis Sandgren
- Weissborn himself
*– Oliveira was banned for using methamphetamine
** – Purcell was disqualified for use of prohibited substances
Source: Sport UA
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13 former tennis players have already announced their careers in 2025. end of career.
The most famous of the girls listed below are Simona Halep, Petra Kvitova, Alize Cornet, Caroline Garcia.
Ukrainian Lesya Tsurenko He has not played professionally since the fall of 2024, when he played for the Ukrainian national team in the KBDK Playoffs. Lesya did not announce the end of her career.
- Ysaline Bonaventure
- Eugenie Bouchard
- Alize Kornet
- Lauren Davis
- Andrea Gamis
- caroline garcía
- Simona Halep
- Michaela Krajicek
- Petra Kvitova
- Akiko Ohmae
- Bibiana Schofs
- Wang Qiang
- Yanina Wickmayer
Tennis players who did not play all year but did not announce their retirement
- Kaia Sofa
- Lesya Tsurenko
Tennis players who took a break from their careers due to motherhood
- Ounce Jabeur
- Daria Saville
- Anna Carolina Shmidlova
- Caroline Wozniacki
Source: Sport UA
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On Monday, December 29, the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) last updated the rating in 2025.
As in principle, there have been no significant changes since the end of the Final Tournament in November.
Thus, Aryna Sabalenka finished the season on top. Also in the top 5 were Iga Swiatek, Coco Gauff, Amanda Anisimova and Elena Rybakina.
As for Ukrainian women, the country’s best tennis player in 2025 is 14th-ranked Elina Svitolina. She is followed by Marta Kostyuk (26th) and Dayana Yastremskaya (27th). Alexandra Oleynikova also entered the top 100 at number 96.
There are six more representatives of Ukraine in the top 500: Yulia Starodubtseva, Angelina Kalinina, Daria Snigur, Anastasia Soboleva, Veronika Podrez and Katarina Zavatskaya.
The new season starts on January 2 – the United Cup team tournament will be held in Perth and Sydney, Australia. And on the 5th, the WTA 500 tournaments will start in Brisbane and the WTA 250 tournaments in Auckland. Sisters Kostyuk, Yastremskaya and Kichenok will play in Brisbane, while Svitolina and Starodubtseva will play in Auckland.
Ukrainian women in WTA singles rankings
Ukrainian women in WTA double the rankings
Source: Sport UA
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