Tennis
Starodubtseva lost to world number 78 in the Australian Open 2026 1/64 final
Ukrainian tennis player Yulia Starodubtseva (WTA 110) She completed her campaign at the 2026 Australian Open.
The Ukrainian player was defeated in three sets in the first round Family Tomljanovic (Australia, WTA 78) in 2 hours 33 minutes.
Australian Open 2026. 1/64 finals
Yulia Starodubtseva (Ukraine) [Q] – Ayla Tomljanovic (Australia) – 6:4, 6:7 (3:7), 1:6
Starodubtseva held her second head-to-head match against Tomljanovic. In 2025, Yulia lost to Ayla at the start of the WTA 1000 competition in Beijing.
Starodubtseva started with the qualifiers at the Australian Open, where she managed to defeat Alice Tubello, Despina Papamikhail and Victoria Tomova.
Yulia played on the courts of Melbourne for the third time in her career and has not yet managed to get past the first round of the main draw.
Tomljanovic will play in the 1/32 final against Elena-Gabriela Ruse, who knocked out Ukrainian Dayana Yastremska the previous day.
In addition to Starodubtseva and Yastremskaya, Marta Kostyuk also left the Australian slam from the Ukrainian representatives. So far, the only Ukrainian who has managed to advance to the second round of AO-2026 is Elina Svitolina. Angelina Kalinina and Alexandra Oleynikova will start at the Major on the 20th.
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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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