Kristina Mladenovic News
Kristina Mladenovic and Ivan Dodig won the Australian Open mixed doubles title 2022 on Friday, January 28.
Top guns like Novak Djokovic and Rafa Nadal had easy outings at the 2021 French Open in Roland Garros on Tuesday (June 1), a day after women's world No. 2 Naomi Osaka dropped a bomb by withdrawing from the year's second Grand Slam. Russian seventh seed Andrey Rublev is out after losing in five sets to German world number 42 Jan-Lennard Struff. French 14th seed Gael Monfils fought back to win 1-6 7-6 (8-6) 6-4 6-4 against Spain's Albert Ramos-Vinolas, leading to jubilant celebrations between the popular player and the small number of home fans who were allowed in. We take a look at an emotional day at the Roland Garros through these collection of pictures.
Young Stefanos Tsitsipas of Greece survived a marathon five-set match against Thanasi Kokkinakis of Australia to move into the third round of the Australian Open. In other major matches, world No. 1 Ashleigh Barty and No. 6 seed Karolina Pliskova of Czech Republic posted easy wins in the second round in Melbourne on Thursday. Here we take a look at some of the top action from Day 4 of the Australian Open.
Seventh seed Martic dispatched Frenchwoman Kristina Mladenovic 6-0 6-3 in 67 minutes to reach her first Premier showpiece, sealing victory with her third ace of the match.
Petra Kvitova`s decision to give her shoes an almighty whack with her racket turned out to be a masterstroke as the Czech`s legs finally started to move more freely, and she eked out a 7-5 6-2 win over Kristina Mladenovic at Wimbledon on Thursday.
Magdalena Rybarikova, who ended Karolina Pliskova's Wimbledon campaign last year in a three-set thriller, was in complete control from the start as she claimed the victory in just over an hour.
Kristina Mladenovic came back from a set down to beat CoCo Vandeweghe 1-6, 6-3, 6-2 and draw France level with defending champions US in their Fed Cup semifinal in Aix-en-Provence on Saturday.
Hungarian Timea Babos and France’s Kristina Mladenovic defeated Russian duo Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina 6-4 6-3 to win the women’s doubles title at the Australian Open on Friday.
Nadal, 16-time Grand Slam champion, maintained the top spot, ahead of Switzerland`s Roger Federer.
Fans on the showcase Philippe Chatrier and Suzanne Lenglen courts booed when it was announced that the men`s quarter-finals were being pushed back to Wednesday.
In a wide-open French Open women`s draw, Kristina Mladenovic leads home hopes into Tuesday`s quarter-finals while former world number one Caroline Wozniacki tackles ballroom dancing Latvian Jelena Ostapenko
Pliskova next faces 28th seed Caroline Garcia who won her all-French grudge match with Alize Cornet 6-2, 6-4.
The winner was rewarded with a cheque for $1.14 million while the runner-up took home $559,339.
Having started her comeback with a world ranking of zero on Wednesday, due to her ban, reaching the semi-final means Sharapova has already moved up to 260th in the world.
She'll play Kristina Mladenovic for a place in the final after the French player's 3-6, 7-6 (7/4), 6-2 victory over former world number one Caroline Wozniacki.
Sania Mirza was the last one to taste Gol Gappe following Nick Kyrgios.
The three players had been provisionally suspended by the FFT following their "unacceptable" behaviour at the Rio Games last month.
Mirza`s serve came under severe threat, facing three break points, and was broken in the first instance itself. Garcia then held her serve easily to be on level terms at 5-5.
In the interim the two women, the reigning French Open doubles champions, as well as Paire, will forfeit financial aid and selection to represent their country.
It has been the maiden championship of Garcia and Mladenovic in a major event.
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