PARSIPPANY, N.J. – At the 2018 Australian Open in Melbourne on January 15-28, Elina Svitolina lost 4-6, 0-6 against Elise Mertens of Belgium in the quarterfinal. Along the way, Svitolina won 6-3, 6-0 against Denisa Allertova of the Czech Republic in the fourth round, won 6-2, 6-2 against Marta Kostyuk in the third round, won 4-6, 6-2, 6-1 against Katerina Siniakova of the Czech Republic in the second round, and won 6-3, 6-2 against Ivana Jorovic of Serbia in the first round.
Kostyuk, 15, won the first-round qualifier of the Australian Open after winning 6-2, 6-2 against Shuai Peng of China (ranked No. 27). In the second round, Kostyuk won 6-3, 7-5 against Olivia Rogowska of Australia. Kostyuk won the 2017 Australian Open junior girls title. She set a record as the youngest female player to win straight sets in 22 years of the Australian Open.
Lesia Tsurenko lost 6-2, 5-4, 3-6 against Agnieszka Radawanska of Poland in the second round. In the first round, Tsurenko won 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 against Natalia Vikhlyantseva of Russia.
Kateryna Bondarenko lost 5-7, 6-3, 1-6 against Magdalena Rybarikova of Slovakia in the third round, won 6-2, 6-3 against Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova of Russia in the second round, and won 7-6, 4-6, 6-2 against Viktorija Golubic of Serbia in the first round.
Kateryna Kozlova was eliminated in the first round by Pavlyuchenkova 6-3, 4-6, 3-6.
In men’s singles, Alexandr Dolgopolov won the second round 7-6, 6-3, 6-4 against Matthew Ebden of Australia, and lost 7-6, 2-6, 3-6, 3-6 in the third round against Diego Schwartzman of Argentina. In the first round, Dolgopolov won 7-6(3), 6-3, 6-4 against Andreas Haider-Maurer of Austria.
In women’s doubles, Nadiia Kichenok and Anastasia Rodionova of Australia were eliminated in the third round after a 1-4 loss in the first set before retiring against Irina-Caelia Begu and Monica Niculescu, both of Romania. Bondarenko and Aleksandra Krunic of Serbia lost 6-7, 2-6 in the second round against Viktoriia Golubic of Switzerland and Nina Stojanovic of Serbia. Olga Savchuk and Raluca Olaru of Romania won 6-3, 6-3 in first round against Kozlova and Yulia Putintseva of Kazakhstan. Savchuk and Olaru lost 2-6, 2-6 in the second round against Lucie Safarova and Barbora Strycova, both of the Czech Republic. Lyudmyla Kichenok and Makoto Ninomiya of Japan lost 6-7, 2-6 in the first round against Lesley Kerkhove of the Netherlands and Lidziya Marozava of Belarus.
In mixed doubles, Kichenok and Marcel Granollers of Spain lost 2-6, 5-7 against Andrea Sestina Hlavackova of the Czech Republic and Edouard Roger-Vasselin of France in the second round.
In girls’ singles, Viktoriia Dema lost 3-6, 4-6 against Mananchaya Sawangkaew of Thailand in the second round, after winning 6-4, 6-3 against Park So-hyun of South Korea in the first round.
In girls’ doubles, Dema and Kostyuk lost 6-0, 4-6, 5-10 against Loudmilla Bencheikh of France and Mana Kawamura of Japan in the first round.