US EditionKyrgios Beats Sabalenka in Latest ‘Battle of the Sexes’ in Tennis
- On Sunday December 28, 2025, Aryna Sabalenka and Nick Kyrgios will face off at 3:45pm GMT in Dubai's Coca-Cola Arena, with Sabalenka defending a nine per cent smaller court and both limited to one serve per point.
- Framed as entertainment and a commercial stunt, Evolve agency organised the match to engage younger viewers and earn money, while BBC commentators said it brings new eyeballs rather than pure sport.
- Organisers shrank Sabalenka's service boxes by one foot in width and 1.9 feet in length, and her baseline by 3.4 ft at Dubai's Coca-Cola Arena, where tickets approached $800.
- Kyrgios defeated Sabalenka 6-3, 6-3, with AP calling it light entertainment as Sabalenka missed her only serve five times and was broken six times, while Kyrgios won on his third match point.
- Next year he targets a return at the Brisbane International in January, as Kyrgios’s sixth 2025 match and Sabalenka’s four Grand Slam titles frame the historic 'Battle of the Sexes' lineage.
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Belarusian tennis player Arina Sabalenka offered decent resistance to the charismatic Australian.
For a double 6-3, in an hour and seventeen minutes, the Australian Nick Kyrgios (671° ATP) was listed as the ‘Battle of the Sexes’ in front of the number one female tennis player, Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka. The duel did not go from being a mere festive, friendly party, plagued with good humor, good times and some brilliant actions, both of the ocean player, who has not competed for a while, and of the Belarusian, the female tennis master. Read …
The Australian seemed to be in control of the match, despite the fact that the physical form was certainly not enviable. Aryna already thinks about the rematch
Australian Nick Kyrgios beat Arina Sabalenko 2:0 in sets (6:3, 6:3) in a match in Dubai that was called "Battle of the sexes".
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