Tennis
WTA ranking. Soboleva and Oleinikova updated their personal records
Last week the women played WTA 1000 in Cincinnati. The title went to 19-year-old American Corey Gauff, who climbed to sixth place in the world rankings.
Finalist Karolina Muchova entered the top ten in the top ten. It is interesting that places from 9 to 12 are now occupied by representatives of the Czech Republic (Vondrushova, Muchova, Kvitova and Kreychikova).
It is also worth noting the progress of the Italian Jasmine Paolini, she updated her personal achievement – 35th place. 18-year-old Czech Linda Noskova is already in 42nd place.
Top 10 WTA Rankings
Ukrainians Elina Svitolina and Angelina Kalinina retained their positions, Marta Kostyuk and Lesya Tsurenko fell slightly in the standings, and Kateryna Beindl and Dayana Yastremska slightly improved their position.
Anastasia Soboleva and Alexandra Oleinikova updated their personal records.
Ukrainian women in the WTA ranking
Lyudmila Kichenok failed to defend her victory at the tournament in Cincinnati last year and fell out of the top 20 couples, now in 24th place. Marta Kostyuk retained 27th place, while Nadezhda Kichenok took 57th place.
Ukrainian women in the top 250 in the WTA doubles ranking
In the championship race, Gauff moved up to fifth place, while Muchova finished eighth.
WTA Championship Race
In the championship race, the Ukrainians either remained in their places or lost a little.
Ukrainian women in the WTA Championship race
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10-time Australian Open champion Novak Djokovic (Serbia, ATP 4) reached the second round of the major.
Serbs in the first round Pedro Martínez (Spain, ATP 71) within 2 hours.
Australian Open 2026. 1/64 finals
Pedro Martinez (Spain) – Novak Djokovic (Serbia) [4] – 3:6, 2:6, 2:6
Djokovic played his first head-to-head match against Pedro.
Novak won his 100th Australian Open victory. Novak became the second player with over 100 wins in men’s singles matches at the Australian Open, after Roger Federer (102).
Djokovic also became the first tennis player to reach this mark in three different Grand Slam tournaments (101 – Roland Garros, 102 – Wimbledon). Novak has 95 wins at the US Open.
Djokovic is playing the 81st major of his career and is on a par with Roger Federer and Feliciano Lopez in this indicator.
Novak’s next opponent will be Francesco Maestrelli (Italy, ATP 141) in the qualifiers.
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37-year-old Croatian tennis player Marin Cilic (ATP 70) Made a successful start to the 2026 Australian Open.
In the first round, Croatia beat the German representative in three sets Daniel Altmaier (ATP 44) In 2 hours and 1 minute, he caused the opponent team to lose two balls in the first two matches.
Australian Open 2026. 1/64 finals
Daniel Altmaier (Germany) – Marin Cilic (Croatia) – 0:6, 0:6, 6:7 (3:7)
Cilic played his first head-to-head match against Altmaier.
Cilic became the first unseeded player since Philipp Petzschner at the 2012 Australian Open to win the first two sets of a match at a Grand Slam, 6-0.
It’s funny that Altmaier was red-capped three times in a row and lost 25 games in total. Before the Australian Open 2026, Daniel played in competitions in Adelaide and lost to Jauma Munyar 3:6, 0:6 in the first round, but was ahead with a score of 3:0.
Cilic will play against 21st-seeded Denis Shapovalov (Canada, ATP 23) in the second round of the major tournament in Melbourne.
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Tennis
Swiatek begins his journey to win his first Australian Open trophy with a hard-fought victory
January 19 Polish tennis player Iga Swiatek He made a successful start to the 2026 Australian Open.
In the first round, the Polish woman defeated the Chinese representative in two sets Yuan Yue (WTA 130) in 1 hour 57 minutes.
Australian Open 2026. 1/64 finals
Yuan Yue (China) [Q] – Iga Swiatek (Poland) [2] – 6:7 (5:7), 3:6
Returning with a score of 3:5 in the first game, Iga did not allow his opponent to serve for the set in the 10th game.
Swiatek played against Yuan Yue for the second time. At the end of September 2025, Iga defeated the Chinese woman in the second round of competition in Beijing.
Iga has yet to win the Australian Open trophy. Her next opponent will be Czech Maria Bouzkova (Czech Republic, WTA 44).
Swiatek became the first tennis player since Carolina Pliskova (25 consecutive wins from Wimbledon 2016 to Australian Open 2023) to win 25 or more consecutive opening matches in women’s singles Grand Slam tournaments.
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