The team formed by the Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova and the Austrian Dominique Thiem defeated the couple made up of the Indian Sania Mirza and the Dane Holger Rune, with whom they gave the victory to the Hawks, in the Dubai Tennis League, a mixed exhibition tournament that took place throughout this week in the United Arab Emirates.

The clash that put the climax to an event that brought together many of the main rackets of the circuit lasted 83 minutes and broke the balance maintained between the two teams after the dispute of the men’s and women’s individual match, for partials of 7-6 (4) and 6-3.

The Hawks, made up of the German Alexander Zverev, the Kazakh Elena Rybakina, the student of Nicolás Massú, Pavlyuchenkova and the Estonian Annet Kontaveit, prevailed over the Kites, made up of the Polish Iga Swiatek, the Canadians Felix Auger Aliassime and Eugénie Bouchard, Rune and the Indian Mirza.

The final day began with the victory of the Kazakh Elena Rybakina, champion of Wimbledon, against the world number one in women’s tennis, Iga Swiatek, 6-3, 6-1. The Pole, winner this year at Roland-Garros, the US Open and Doha, Indian Wells, Miami, Stuttgart, Rome and San Diego, did not put up much resistance to Rybakina, twenty-first in the WTA rankings , whom she had beaten in Ostrava. last year, in the only occasion where so far they had faced each other.

Rybakina, who closed the match in an hour and two minutes of play, put the Hawks team in front, although later the Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime highlighted the good time with which 2022 ended and he beat Zverev 6-4 and 6-3, in an hour and a half, to equalize the final.

The Montrealer, who finished the course in sixth place in the ATP rankings, with his four titles won in 2022 (Basel, Antwerp, Florence and Rotterdam) and as the leader of his country’s first Davis Cup success, won by Third times in five matches against the German who intends to regain his competitive pulse after the serious injury he suffered at Roland Garros and which took him away from the final stretch of the season.

The final was played in mixed doubles with the victory of Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova and Dominik Thiem, of the Hawks, over the Indian Mirza and the Danish Rune.