Tennis player Rybakina lost to Mukhova and did not reach the semifinals of the Brisbane tournament.

On January 9, the champion of the annual professional tennis tournament "Grand Slam" Wimbledon-2022 and the fifth racket of the world, Kazakhstani tennis player Elena Rybakina, completed her performance at the WTA-500 tournament in Brisbane, Australia, losing in the quarterfinals to the representative of the Czech Republic Karolina Mukhova, who occupies the 20th line of the ranking.

The meeting ended with a score 2:6, 6:2, 4:6. The fight lasted two hours and five minutes. During the match, Rybakina made nine aces, made seven double faults and was able to make two break points out of three possible ones. Mukhova, in turn, served three times straight, made no double mistakes and was able to make three break points out of 11, Sport-Express reports.

In the semifinals of the tournament, the Czech tennis player will face the winner of the match between world number one Arina Sobolenko from Belarus and American Madison Keys.

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Sobolenko also played with Rybakina on November 8, 2025. Then, as part of the final match of the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) Final Tournament she lost to a tennis player from Kazakhstan with a score of 3:6, reacting to her defeat with foul language.

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