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“Zvonareva is a plowman, her training is at an exorbitant level” – Vesnina
Vera Zvonareva / Photo: © Francois Nel / Staff / Getty Images Sport / Gettyimages.ru
Rio 2016 Olympic champion in doubles Elena Vesnina noted the high intensity of Vera Zvonareva’s training work.
39-year-old Zvonareva, paired with German tennis player Laura Siegemund in the 2023 season, won the Final Tournament, WTA 500 category competitions in Washington, as well as WTA 250 tournaments in Chinese Ningbo and Nanchang.
– Vera is generally a great fellow – she is a plowman, I don’t even know a tennis player who would perform such large volumes of work to the limit, one might even say, to self-destruction. The way Vera trains is the way even many singles professionals don’t train. For her, this is at some transcendental level.
From the outside it seems that she cannot stop and plays a lot of tournaments in a row. But she loves it, she feels happy on the court, she wins. And I see that she has improved a lot and has become, it seems to me, even better at playing couples than before,” Vesnina is quoted as saying by “Championship.”
Zvonareva is ranked 272nd in the WTA rankings in singles and ninth in doubles.
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January 15 Ukrainian tennis player Yulia Starodubtseva (WTA 110) will continue to compete to qualify for the 2026 Australian Open.
In the qualifying final the Ukrainian player will play against Victoria Tomova (Bulgaria, WTA 128). The meeting will start at approximately 02:00 Kyiv time.
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This will be the first head-to-head meeting between the rivals.
The winner of the fight will advance to the main draw of the major tournament in Melbourne.
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It will take place on January 15 draw main grill Australian Open 2026 in both men’s and women’s singles.
The ceremony will start at 05.00 Kyiv time. The video broadcast will be available on the official Australian Open website and the tournament’s YouTube channel.
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Current major champions Jannik Sinner and Madison Keys will attend the draw ceremony.
They know their opponents Ukrainian tennis players: Elina Svitolina (WTA 12), Marta Kostyuk (WTA 20), Dayana Yastremskaya (WTA 27) and Alexandra Oleynikova (WTA 90).
Svitolina, Kostyuk and Yastremskaya rank 12th, 20th and 26th, respectively. There will be a total of 32 seeded players for both men and women.
US Open main rule matches will begin on January 18 and run through February 1.
Three Ukrainians continue to compete in the Australian Open 2026 qualifiers: Yulia Starodubtseva, Daria Snigur and Angelina Kalinina.
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Video broadcast is available on the Australian Open YouTube channel.
Seeded tennis players and women tennis players:
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Austrian tennis player Sebastian Ofner (ATP 131) suffered a disappointing defeat in the second round of the 2026 Australian Open qualifiers.
In the semi-finals of the selection, the Austrian player lost to the US representative in three sets Nisheshu Basavareddy (ATP 239) in 2 hours 32 minutes. Basavareddy took the victory over Ofner in the third set super tiebreaker.
Sebastian was ahead 7:1 in the super tiebreaker and started celebrating his victory after gaining a point. Sebastian started walking towards the goal and the referee told him the match wasn’t over yet.
As a result, Ofner lost 11:13 and missed two match points: one at 10:9 on the return, the other at 11:10 on serve.
Basavareddy will compete against George Loffagen (Great Britain, ATP 211) in the Australian Open qualifying final.
Australian Open 2026. Qualification
Nisesh Basavareddy (USA) – Sebastian Ofner (Austria) – 4:6, 6:4, 7:6 (13:11)
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