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SPORTS TUESDAY | JAN 13, 2026

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Swiatek insists ‘everything is fine’

IGA S WIATEK insists “everything is fine” despite back-to-back losses in the lead-up to the Australian Open, with the world No. 2 “super sore” but confident of recovering for the season opening Grand Slam. The Polish star crashed 3-6, 6-0, 6-3 to Switzerland’s Belinda Bencic in the mixed-teams United Cup final in Sydney on Sunday, which came on the back of a lacklustre 6-4, 6-2 defeat to Coco Gauff in the semifinals. A shellshocked Swiatek lost seven games in a row against Bencic, including a rare set to love, with a racquet toss and tears at the end of the match summing up her frustration. It was uncharacteristic for the six-time Grand

physically was not in the second set against the Swiss. “I think it was a mix of me losing the intensity, and I wasn’t feeling so sharp with movements and with my legs. I wasn’t so precise any more physically I would say,” she said. With the Australian Open starting at Melbourne Park on Sunday, Swiatek has little time to iron out her technical issues after 36 unforced errors to Bencic’s 10 on Sunday. “We’re going to work now to improve some elements that didn’t work this week,” she said. “Still not a lot of time for that if I also want to have some recovery days. This is how tennis is. You got to go with the flow. We’ll see.” – AFP

the year, it costs the body a bit differently than during the season. But I had similar experience last year also. I’ll just get good recovery, couple days off. “Also I know these team events. I love them but they really take a lot of energy from you. I still need to figure out how to balance that maybe in the future.” Swiatek, who picked up solid wins over Eva Lys, Suzan Lamens and Maya Joint before meeting Gauff and Bencic, admitted she

Slam winner, who rarely loses consecutive matches. She most recently did so at the WTA Finals in Riyadh in November, falling to Elena Rybakina and Amanda Anisimova. Before that, her previous back-to-back defeats were in 2021. “Everything is fine,“ she said after the final, which Poland won 2-1 courtesy of Katarzyna Kawa and Jan Zielinski clinching the deciding mixed doubles. “Just super sore. I guess first tournament of

Comeback kid Hurkacz Hubert inspires Poland to first United Cup title

SHORTS Medvedev says he will be hard to beat Down Under TH R EE-TIME Australian Open runner up Daniil Medvedev will be an under dog at the opening Grand Slam of the year, but the Russian warned he will be hard to beat in his current form. Medvedev should move up a place to No. 12 in the rankings after warming up for another crack at the Melbourne Park title by winning the Brisbane International on Sunday. It was his second tournament vic tory in three months after his first title in two years came at Kazakhstan in October, “I for sure have been playing very good (at the) end of the season. I think I made six out of the last seven tourna ments quarters, a lot of them semis, two titles,” he said. “So I’m happy with the way I’m play ing, and I know that when I’m playing good, there are not that many players that can beat me easily or at all.” Medvedev, who reached the final of the Australian Open in 2021, 2022 and 2024, will be an underdog in Melbourne with Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz overwhelming favour ites. “If we look in the long run, for sure I’m the underdog, because it’s been some time I haven’t been in the later stages of a Grand Slam. I’m outside of the top 10,” he said. Sri Lanka seal gritty T20 win over Pakistan SR I LA N KA eked out a hard fought 14 run victory over Pakistan in the third T20 at rain-hit Dambulla yesterday, eas ing their batting jitters and squaring the three-match series 1-1. The series, a warm-up for the T20 World Cup with Pakistan set to play all their matches in Sri Lanka due to politi cal tensions with nuclear-armed neigh bours India, saw the visitors clinch the opener by six wickets before rain washed out the second game. “We were a bit worried about our batting and I’m glad we addressed that today,” said Wanindu Hasaranga, who walked away with both Player of the Match and Player of the Series honours. “The bowlers did a good job too. The ball was wet and it wasn’t easy. We tried to bowl wide and slow and asked them to take risks.” Hasaranga took four wickets in the game and in the process completed 150 wickets in T20Is. In a contest trimmed to 12 overs a side, Sri Lanka muscled their way to a competitive 160 before choking Pakistan to 146-8. “It was a good game of cricket,” Pakistan skipper Salman Agha said. “We conceded too many runs, but our batting effort was good. “Unfortunately, we fell short. We know we are going to play all our World Cup games in Sri Lanka and it’s important that we played in similar conditions,”he added.

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other side of the net.” Bencic won 12 of the final 15 games against a shell-shocked Swiatek, earning her second victory over the world number two. “To be honest, I felt I was in the match from the very first point,” said Bencic, who won all five of her sin gles matches in the tournament. “I think I just tried to keep the level and just wait for some chances.” With the title on the line, Zielinski partnered Kawa to victory over the Swiss pair who had been unbeaten in the tournament, scuppering Bencic’s attempt at a perfect 10-0 record in singles and doubles. “I thought I was going great and I was 0-3 down. I was ‘OK, what do I have to do?’

“This moment is so bittersweet,” Bencic said, adding Switzerland had nothing to be disappointed about. “We can be so proud of our selves and we really deserve to celebrate this. It was truly one of the best weeks of my life.” – AFP

India’s Virat Kohli plays a shot during the first one-day international (ODI) cricket match between India and New Zealand at the Kotambi Stadium in Vadodara yesterday. – AFPPIC

Virat stars as India edge Kiwis in ODI opener

VI R AT KOHLI hit 93 to help India chase down 301 in a tense four-wicket win over New Zealand in the first one-day international yesterday. The in-form Virat struck his 77th ODI half century as he became the second leading run-scorer in international cricket with a

stood out with figures of 4-41. Virat led the chase as he went past Sri Lanka’s Kumar Sangakkara (28,016 runs) to move sec ond in the list of leading run-scorers in the inter national game, behind fellow Indian Sachin Tendulkar (34,357). “My journey has been nothing short of a dream-come-true for me,” Virat said after being named man of the match. “I look at my journey with grace and grati tude. With the way I am playing at the moment, I am not looking at milestones. Only thing in my mind was to help the team win.” After opener Rohit Sharma fell for 26 in the ninth over, Virat refused to retreat into a defen sive shell. Instead, he took the initiative, using con trolled aggression to force New Zealand’s attack onto the back foot. “Well, the basic idea is I bat at No. 3,” Kohli said after winning the player of the match award. “So if the situation is a bit tricky, I back myself to counterattack now rather than just trying to play the situation in because some ball has your name on it.” – AFP/Reuters

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total of 28,068 runs. With his dismissal, India slipped from 234-2 to 242-5 before they reached their target with six balls to spare in Vadodara. Skipper Shubman Gill made 56 in a 118-run second wicket stand with Virat, who shared another strong partnership with Shreyas Iyer, who made 49. Late cameos by Harshit Rana (29) and wicket keeper-batter KL Rahul, who made an unbeaten 29 including the winning six, secured an Indian lead in the three-match series 1-0. New Zealand pace spearhead Kyle Jamieson

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