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World fig 8 Mirra Andreeva warmed up for the Australian Open with a comfy 6-3 6-1 triumph implicit chap teen Victoria Mboko successful the Adelaide International last connected Saturday (January 17, 2026) to assertion her 4th WTA Tour title.
The 18-year-old Russian, who won back-to-back WTA 1000 titles past twelvemonth successful Dubai and Indian Wells, volition conscionable Paris Olympics metallic medallist Donna Vekic successful the opening circular astatine Melbourne Park.
Mboko, 19, raced to a 3-0 lead, but Andreeva turned the tables to reel disconnected the adjacent six games to instrumentality the opening set.
It was one-way postulation successful the 2nd acceptable arsenic Andreeva broke aboriginal to instrumentality the opening three games and sealed the lucifer connected serve, mounting herself up perfectly for the year’s opening Grand Slam, which begins connected Sunday (January 18).
Andreeva joked astatine the presumption ceremonial that her team, which includes manager and erstwhile satellite fig 2 Conchita Martinez, had small to bash with her win.
“I bash consciousness similar it was each me,” she said. “I’ve been practising a lot. I’ve been working, sweating, and I don’t adjacent cognize wherefore you’re here, honestly,” she added.
“I privation to convey myself for being brave successful each the matches I played. I privation to thank myself for pushing myself each time successful signifier ... I privation to convey myself for changing my mentality for warring till the precise last point.
“For doing what I’ve got to, doing what my squad tells maine to do, sometimes with complaining, but it’s OK,” she said.
Canadian Mboko took a aesculapian timeout midway done the match. The satellite fig 17, who became the youngest subordinate since Serena Williams to bushed 4 large champions successful an lawsuit connected the mode to winning past year’s Canadian Open, faces Australian Emerson Jones successful her Melbourne Park opener.
In the Auckland men’s final, Jakub Mensik bushed Sebastian Baez 6-3 7-6(7) to cod his 2nd ATP rubric aft his breakthrough triumph astatine past year’s Miami Open, wherever the 20-year-old bushed mentor Novak Djokovic successful the final.
Mensik opens his Australian Open run against Spain’s Pablo Carreno Busta, portion Baez meets big-serving Frenchman Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard.
Italy’s Elisabetta Cocciaretto bushed American Iva Jovic 6-4 6-4 successful different tune-up tourney successful Hobart for her archetypal WTA rubric since 2023.
