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Rybakina's Brutal Defeat in Brisbane
January 9, 2026 | Edition #328
Elena Rybakina touched down in Australia with one clear mission: keep her winning streak alive. And, for the first two rounds in Brisbane, she looked untouchable. But the run came to a halt in the quarterfinals, where Karolina Muchova brought the Kazakh’s 13-match streak to an end in a hard-fought battle.
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Karolina Muchova ended Elena Rybakina’s winning streak by defeating her 6-2, 2-6, 6-4 to advance to the semifinals of the Brisbane International.
Karolina Muchova's all-court game came together in 2019, where she began well outside the Top 100. Then, she made her Top 100 debut after making her first WTA final in Prague, played her first major quarterfinal at Wimbledon by defeating her compatriot Karolina Pliskova, and took home her first WTA title in the fall in Seoul.
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