12 Russian tennis players announced for the Australian Open

12 Russian tennis players will compete at the Australian Open in 2026. The lists of participants were published on December 9 on the championship website.

Daniil Medvedev, Andrey Rublev and Karen Khachanov will play in the men's singles. Mirra Andreeva, Ekaterina Alexandrova, Lyudmila Samsonova, Diana Schneider, Veronika Kudermetova, Anna Kalinskaya, Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, Anna Blinkova and Oksana Selekhmetyeva will take part in the women's singles of the championship.

Russians and Medvedev: how was the tennis superstar's return to Russia

The most decorated Russian player performed in his native country for the first time in five years

Earlier, on December 6, former world number two Vera Zvonareva made it to the finals of the ITF W100 tournament in Dubai on December 6. In the semifinal match, Zvonareva was stronger than 16-year-old British athlete Mika Stoysavljevic, who ranks 342nd in the world ranking. The meeting lasted 3 hours and 8 minutes and ended with a score 6:3, 6:7 (4:7), 6:4.

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