Tennis
Russian tennis player was arrested at Roland Garros. Did you play too bad?
Yana was taken to the police directly from the massage table.
The organizers of Roland Garros, unlike their colleagues from Wimbledon, did not take any additional sanctions against Russian tennis players. However, for at least one of our tennis players, a trip to Paris turned into a real hell.
French police detained Yana Sizikova on suspicion of organizing match-fixing. The girl spent a day at the police station, but due to lack of evidence, she was released.
The investigation lasted almost two and a half years.
I made two double mistakes – I organized a “negotiable”
In 2020, Russian tennis player Yana Sizikova, along with American Madison Brengle, took part in the Roland Garros doubles. The girls in the first round lost to rivals from Romania, and it was this game that aroused the suspicions of the special unit for ensuring honesty and transparency in tennis (TIU).
In the fifth game of the second set, when Yana was serving, both tennis players made many incomprehensible mistakes. First, Sizikova made a double mistake, then the girls lost two draws in a row, and the Russian woman completed the game with another double.
Nothing surprising, especially for women’s tennis. However, the bookmakers fixed abnormally large bets on the loss of Sizikova and Brengle in the fifth game of the second set. The total amount of bets was several hundred thousand euros. This was the reason for the investigation by the TIU.
“In fact, what should I be afraid of?”
However, the Russian woman was detained only a year later, in 2021. Sizikova again took part in the Roland Garros doubles games, this time in a duet with compatriot Ekaterina Alexandrova. After the game, Yana was on a rejuvenating massage when the French police came for her and took her to the police station. The girl was suspected of “deliberate loss” and “complicity in fraud on the sweepstakes.” Under French law, Sizikova faced up to five years in prison and a fine of several hundred thousand euros.
Sizikova, of course, denied her guilt and tried to explain to the police that everyone makes mistakes. Moreover, Yana has never been famous for her stable serve. At the time of her arrest, she had only one WTA title, won in 2019 in Lausanne together with Anastasia Potapova.
Searches were carried out in the room of the Russian woman: they carefully checked the phone and tablet, tried to find at least some connection with bookmakers or intermediaries. According to the lawyer of the tennis player, the name of Sizikova simply surfaced on the Internet, and the police decided to check her as a possible organizer of fixed matches.
Yana was kept at the police station for a day, but nothing was found that could confirm the guilt of the tennis player. On July 4, the girl was released. Soon she left France and filed a counterclaim with the prosecutor for slander against her, but it was later rejected.
For Yana, the detention turned out to be a very emotional moment, because of which she stopped trusting others.
– There were many thoughts. Again, I had nothing to say to them, because, in fact, what should I be afraid of? Rather, it was fear for the whole general situation: to think that they could remove me – no, there was no such thing. Just for nothing. Thanks to the family, it went faster than expected. But even today it is very difficult for me to talk about it. It took more than six months for me to stop thinking about everything. To be honest, I even tense up when there are a lot of strangers around the court – I don’t feel very comfortable, ”Sizikova told the Championship in August 2022.
Nevertheless, the investigation was conducted for more than two years, only on April 11, 2023, the Paris prosecutor’s office closed the criminal case, because no evidence could be found. This season, Sizikova reunited with Potapova and even for the first time in her career went beyond the first round at the Grand Slam tournament, but this happened in Australia, but at Roland Garros Sizikova, along with Alexandra Panova, finished the fight at the start. Well, it’s good that at least they didn’t get arrested!
Xenia Antonova
Source: Sportbox
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Tennis
Svitolina in wrestling. Half of the participants in the Aus Open 2026 1/16 final have been determined
January 21 Australian Open 2026 The second round matches of women’s singles took place at the top.
Ukrainian tennis player reached the third round at the Australian Open Elina SvitolinaDefeating Linda Klimovichova.
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Elina’s next opponent will be “neutral” Diana Schneider, who won three match points against Talia Gibson.
Unfortunately, world number one Arina Sabalenka (current champion) continues to compete. In the second round, Bai Zhuoxuan failed to force the Belarusian to fight.
On Wednesday, Coco Gauff (win against Olga Danilovic), Mirra Andreeva (win against Maria Sakkari) and Jasmine Paolini (win against Magdalena French) also advanced from the top 10 to the 1/16 final.
On the 22nd, the 1/32 final of the Australian Open will take place in the lower group.
Australian Open 2026. 1/16 last pair
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Arina Sabalenko [1] – 
Anastasia Potapova
Victoria Mboko [17] – Clara Towson
Zeynep Sönmez [Q] – Yulia Putintseva
Iva Jovic [29] – Jasmine Paolini [7]
Coco Gauff [3] – Hayley Baptist
Carolina Muchova [19] – Magda Linette
Elina Svitolina [12] –Diana Schneider [23]
Elena-Gabriela Ruse – Mirra Andreeva [8]
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Tennis
Andreeva demolished her powerful opponent at the Australian Open. No one has done this for 19 years!
The last time something like this was achieved was before the birth of the Russian tennis player.
After a difficult start at the Australian Open, Mirra Andreeva faced another difficult opponent – Maria Sakkari. True, the titled Greek woman had to leave the court with the steering wheel, unlike our athlete, who achieved the best result among all tennis players in 19 years.
Difficult draw
Mirra was very unlucky with the draw at the Australian Open. Already in the first round she was opposed by the experienced Croatian tennis player Donna Vekic. Due to fatigue after winning the tournament in Adelaide, Andreeva experienced serious difficulties in this game. The Croatian even took the first game, but the more resilient Russian woman still put the finishing touches on her opponent – 4:6, 6:3, 6:0.
“Sometimes it takes time to get into the rhythm of a tournament, but here I didn’t have it, I needed to immediately start playing 100%, and I think the difficult draw contributed to this,” Andreeva is quoted as saying by the official website of the tournament after her victory over Vekic.
In the second round, our young star had to play Maria Sakkari, who in 2022 was ranked high in third place in the WTA rankings. The Greek also reached the semi-finals twice at Grand Slam tournaments. Recently, the athlete fell outside the top 50, but still posed a serious danger to rivals of any level.
Greek despair
In the first set, the titled Sakkari, despite her powerful dimensions, could not oppose anything to Andreeva, who acted much more aggressively and accurately. Maria’s statistics looked simply depressing: she did not earn a single actively won ball with 13 unforced errors. By some miracle, the Greek managed to earn three break points due to the Russian’s mistakes, but failed to convert them.
But Andreeva succeeded in her successful reception game. She made breaks three times, and on her serve she always brought the matter to victory in games. It took Mirra only 27 minutes to pin her opponent in the first set – 6:0.
The Russian also started the second game strongly, taking two games in a row. Maria was already throwing up her hands in despair and nervously communicating with the team. It seemed that bringing the match to victory was a matter of technique, but Sakkari suddenly “woke up”. She won 12 draws in a row, which excited the stands, which were filled with many migrants with Greek roots. The fans even started shouting encouragement as their favorite team took the lead for the first time – 3:2.
But the general Greek celebration at Margaret Court Arena quickly ended. The equal fight lasted only three games, after which Mirra again made a break, which became decisive in the match. In the tenth game, our tennis player scored an easy victory in the set – 6:4.
Thanks to this success, Andreeva achieved a cool achievement. The Russian became the youngest tennis player since 2007 to reach the third round of women’s singles at the Australian Open for three years in a row. Nicole Vaidishova was rocking the Melbourne courts when Mirra was not even born.
Source: Sportbox
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Russian tennis player Mirra Andreeva reached the third round of the Australian Open.
In the second round match, eighth seed Andreeva defeated Maria Sakkari of Greece with a score of 6:0, 6:4. The meeting lasted 1 hour 7 minutes.
For 18-year-old Andreeva, this is her 30th victory at Grand Slam tournaments. The next opponent of the first racket of Russia will be the Romanian Elena-Gabriela Ruse.
Grand Slam Tournament. Australian Open. Melbourne (Australia). Hard. Total prize fund: about $75 million
Women. Second round
Mirra Andreeva (Russia, 8) – Maria Sakkari (Greece) – 6:0, 6:4
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