The battle of the sexes returns to tennis at the beginning of 2026. Australian Nick Kyrgios (30 years, 651 ATP) will face the Belorus player Aryna Sabalenka (26), number 1, at Hong Kong. As the prizes are equal to girls and boys, it remains to be seen who deserves more.
Aryna Sabalenka holds up the flag of girls
The duel is scheduled in the first week of January 2026. Nick Kyrgios, a former finalist at Wimbledon and above the 13th place in 2016, is currently away from the circuit.
History says that in the matches in which a tennis player faced a player, twice from three, the winner was the man. And the Australian is sure he will improve the percentage.
“Do you really think he can defeat me? Will not. Do you really think I have to play 100%? I will try to stay focused because I represent the masculine but I think I will win with 6-2“Kyrgios said in a discussion at a podcast with the Kazakh player Alexander Bublik (28, 24 ATP), defeated on Monday night in the US Open by the Italian Jannik Sinner (24 years, 1 ATP).
The commentators noticed that the boastful Nick Kyrgios, known as a naughty and too confident, had returned. But he praises Sabalenka for her personality, but she is sure of the result.
Bublik cuts them out of enthusiasm
“I am very excited about this match; He has a great personality and is a magnificent tennis player. Is the kind of players who thinks can win“Says Nick, used to criticize (he was tough with Sinner, considering that the Italian received too little suspension).
Bublik warns him that all this confidence can be a two -edged sword: “You know, it’s very funny you are so convinced you can win against Aryna”.
52 years after Billie King’s historical victory over Bobby Riggs, Kyrgios believes he will win the January battle.
Kyrgios remains in history with the word told in 2015 to Swiss Stanislas Wawrinka, at the direct match: “Kokkinakis pulled it to your girlfriend“.
