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PHOTOGRAPH. A huge sensation. How was the first round of the 2025 Junior Final?
On December 17, the first round matches were played in Jeddah (Saudi Arabia). ATP Youth Final Tournament 2025.
While Nishesh Basavareddy and Alexander Blocks won the victories in the Red group, Rafael Khodar and Nikolay Budkov Kjær won the matches in the Blue group.
The real sensation in the match against Lerner Tien, the world’s 28th racket and last year’s Next Generation ATP Finals finalist, was Victoria Khodara. Rafael defeated the American in five sets, winning 4 match points and gaining the first victory in his career against a top 100 representative.
Only Blocks could reach favorite status against Justin Engel on Thursday. Basavareddy, Hodar and Budkov Kjaer were the underdogs against Dino Prizmic, Thien and Martin Landalus respectively.
ATP Youth Final Tournament 2025. 17 December
red group. 1st round
Dino Prizhmic (ATR 128) – Nisesh Basavareddy (ATP 167) – 2:4, 3:4 (7:9), 4:3 (7:3), 2:4
Alexander Blocks (ATR116) – Justin Engel (ATP 187) – 3:4 (7:9), 4:2, 4:2, 4:2
blue group. 1st round
Lerner Thien (ATP 28) – Rafael Hodar (ATR 168) – 4:1, 3:4 (3:7), 4:1, 2:4, 3:4 (4:7)
Martin Landalus (ATP 134) – Nikolay Budkov Kjer (ATP 136) – 1:4, 4:3 (9:7), 2:4, 3:4 (4:7)
Video review of the first day of play
PHOTOGRAPH. A huge sensation. How was the first round of the 2025 Junior Final?
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Rybakina and Rublev beat the Vachereau/Schwentek duo in the World Tennis Continental Cup match in China
Elena Rybakina and Andrey Rublev / Photo: © Zhe Ji / Contributor / Getty Images Sport / Gettyimages.ru
The Russian-Kazakh duo Andrey Rublev/Elena Rybakina beat the representative of Monaco, Valentin Vachereau and Iga Szwiatek from Poland in the World Tennis Continental Cup match, which takes place in Shenzhen (China).
The meeting ended with the victory of Rublev and Rybakina representing the world team – 6:4, 6:4. Team World beats Team Europe 5–4.
In the final match of the tournament, Andrei Rublev will meet with Italian Flavio Cobolli. The game will take place on Sunday, December 28 at 18:45 local time.
The tournament takes place December 26–28. The eight participants are divided into two teams: Team Europe and Team World. Each player will play two singles matches, and two doubles matches will also be played.
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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%.
Broadcast video player will be added later…
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