Tennis
Nadal loses to Khachanov but qualifies for Australian Open ’16’
Rada Nadal passed the first tough test with a 3-1 win over Karen Khatshanov (No. 30) and advanced to the round of 16 of the Australian Open.
Rafa Nadal passed the first possible test victoriously against the ‘silver’ Olympian from Tokyo and world No. 30 Karen Hatsanov, with the Spaniard taking the win 6-3, 6-2, 3-6, 6-1 in 2 clocked hours and 50 minutes, securing qualification for the 4th round of the Australian Open.
This was the 7th consecutive victory for the 35-year-old Spaniard, after the title he won at the 250v250 tournament in Melbourne, the 72nd at the Australian Open (72-15) while he was in the 4th round will be the tournament for the 15th time and for the 6th time in a row.
We remind you that Nadal failed to reach the “16” only twice, the first in 2004 (lost to Hewitt) and the second in 2016 (lost to Verdasco).
For one more game, Nadal excelled from serve position, winning 83% of the points from behind 1st serve (55/66), while the fact that he passed 67% of 1st serve gave him an opportunity to nudge the net approaching where it was impressive to finish the game on 23/26 (86%).
In the first 2 sets everything went perfectly for the Spaniard. In both the 1st and 2nd sets, Nadal “hit” Khatsanov’s serve at the start and found a quick break. The difference between the 2 sets was that the Spaniard found another in the 2nd (4-1), making his task even easier by taking a clear lead in the sets (2-0).
In the 3rd came the response of Khatsanov, who pressed for his only break of the game, with Nadal failing to find the first service and the Russian leading 3-1 and a little later 4-1 after initially wiping out 3 break points by Nadal.
The 35-year-old Spaniard did exactly the same thing immediately after holding serve (4-2) with Hatsanov from there and beyond, finding easy points on his serve, ending the set and reducing it to 2-1.
The 4th set got off to a similar start to the opening 2, with Nadal finding an early break (2-0) after two amazing points that came from unthinkable defences.
The Spaniard also won the 3rd game in a row (3-0), with the win leaning towards him, which was sealed with the new break he found in the 6th game (5-1).
Nadal’s serve picked up again (13/13 on the 1st serve), errors were reduced (5) and the No. 6 on board celebrated their 3rd win at this year’s Australian Open, but also their 8th in equal number of games against Khatsanov.
Source: Tennis24.gr.
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Tennis
22-28.12 Schedule and results of matches between Ukrainians and Ukrainians at ITF tournaments
Sport.ua presents the schedule and results of matches of Ukrainian tennis players at the ITF World Tour tournaments from December 15 to 21
men
M15 Antalya (Türkiye – location), Antalya Series
Singles, elimination, first round
- Maxim Khlyvnyuk (Ukraine) – Ibrahim Yego (Kenya) – absent
- Filip Pavic (Kosovo) – Andrey Bilata (Ukraine) – without
Singles, qualifiers, second round
- Maxim Khlyvnyuk (Ukraine) – Stefanos Schinas (Greece, 15) – 23.12, at 10:00 at the latest
- Alexandru Balan (Canada, 6) – Andrey Bilata (Ukraine) – 23.12, 12:30 at the latest
Singles, first round
- TVA – Nikita Bilozertsev (Ukraine, 6) –TVA
- TVA – Ilya Biloborodko (Ukraine) –TVA
- TVA – Alexander Ovcharenko (Ukraine, 2) –TVA
Doubles, first round
- Dillon Beckles (USA) and Alexander Wagner (Austria) – Nikita Bilozertsev (Ukraine) and Alp Horoz (Türkiye) – TVA
- William Mirarchi (Italy) and Daniil Stepanov – Mihai Marinescu (Romania) and Alexander Ovcharenko (Ukraine, 4) –TVA
M15 Monastir (Tunisia – difficult), FTT by Magic Hotel Tours
Singles, elimination, first round
- Kazuki Nishiwaki (Japan, 6) – Arseniy Mironov (Ukraine) – 6:0, 6:0
Women
W15 Antalya (Türkiye – ground), Antalya Series
Singles, elimination, first round
- Anastasia Necule (Romania) – Yaroslava Sribnaya (Ukraine) –TVA
- Arina Yakusheva (Ukraine) – Naz Kaynak (Türkiye) – TVA
- Jamie Collinson (Australia) – Helen Grab (Ukraine) –TVA
- Serafima Vasilyeva (Ukraine) – Öykü Şahbaz (Ukraine) – none
Singles, qualifiers, second round
- Eva Galievskaya (Ukraine, 6) – Honoka Uchiyama (Japan) or Alisa Aksiyanova – TVA
- Serafima Vasilyeva (Ukraine) – Sabina Shaidullina or Ema Garayda (Czech Republic, 14) – TVA
Doubles, first round
- Asylzhan Arystanbekova (Kazakhstan) and Ingkar Dyusebay (Kazakhstan) – Sara Balan (Romania) and Eva Galievskaya (Ukraine) –TVA
- Nanari Katsumi (Romania) and Honoka Uchiyama (Japan) – Helen Grab (Ukraine) and Arina Yakusheva (Ukraine) –TVA
Source: Sport UA
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20-year-old American tennis player Lerner Tien (ATP 28) Became the winner of the ATP 2025 Junior Final Tournament.
The Americans were defeated in the final of the competition held on indoor courts in Jeddah (Saudi Arabia). Alexander Blox (Belgium, ATP 116) 1 hour 1 minute.
Next Generation ATP Finals 2025. Final, December 21
Lerner Tien (AMERICA) [1] –Alexander Blox (Belgium) [2] – 4:3 (7:4), 4:2, 4:1
Tien played in the Next Generation finals for the second time. He lost to João Fonseca in the decisive match in 2024.
Lerner suffered one defeat, losing to Rafael Hodar in the first round of the group stage in Jeddah. He then defeated Blox as well as Martin Landaluse, Nikolay Budkov Kjaer and Nishesh Basavareddy.
Tien becomes the second Youth Finals champion after Brandon Nakashima – Nakashima won the Next Gen award in 2022.
Lerner Thien received $502,250 in prize money for his victory at the Next Gen ATP Finals 2025.
Photo gallery of the award ceremony
Source: Sport UA
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The final match will be held on December 21 ATP Youth Final Tournament 2025 In Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
The Net Gen ATP Finals cup will be played on: Alexander Blocks (Belgium, ATP 116) and Lerner Tien (USA, ATP 28). The starting time of the meeting is 19.00 Kyiv time.
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This will be the first head-to-head meeting between the rivals at Tour level and the third if you take into account the junior competitions (1:1).
The winner of the match will receive the Junior Final award.
Source: Sport UA
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