Elina Svitolina and Vitaliy Sachko have become the best tennis players of the year in Ukraine, winning the BTU Awards 2025 readers\u2019 poll.<\/p>\n
The season\u2019s recap was announced in the context of their achievements over the year, which brought Ukraine two significant awards on the country\u2019s tennis map.<\/p>\n
Svitolina in the current season played 51 matches and earned 36 wins. In April at the WTA 250 tournament in Rouen, she won her 18th title on the WTA Tour. She reached the quarterfinals of the Australian Open and Roland Garros, and also the semifinals at the WTA 1000 tournament in Madrid, where she defeated four top-10 opponents.<\/p>\n
Additionally, Svitolina helped the Ukrainian national team qualify for the Billie Jean King Cup finals for the first time, securing wins in ties against Poland and Switzerland. In the finals she delivered an important point for our team in the quarterfinal against Spain, defeating Paula Badosa, which allowed Ukraine to reach the semifinals of the team world championship for the first time in history.<\/p>\n
Svitolina\u2019s season began at the 27th position in the WTA rankings and ended at the 14th position, as Ukraine\u2019s top-ranked female player.<\/p>\n
Profile of the winner and year in review<\/p>\n
Vitaliy Sachko this year played 73 matches, winning 42. He twice reached the finals of Challenger series tournaments, four times reached the doubles final at Challenger events, and captured two titles. At the ATP 250 Memphis event, the Ukrainian reached the semifinals \u2013 the first Ukrainian to reach this stage since 2007.<\/p>\n
Starting the year at 417th in the world rankings, Vitaliy finished it at 169th.<\/p>\n
Also in the \u201cProgress of the Year\u201d category, Oleksandra Oliynykova won, having played 80 matches and recorded 59 wins. In the \u201cNew Generation\u201d category (players not older than 20) Veronika Podrez won \u2013 50 wins in 69 matches.<\/p>\n
These achievements confirm the high level of Ukrainian tennis and its prospects for the coming years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elina Svitolina and Vitaliy Sachko have become the best tennis players of the year in Ukraine, winning the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371313,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[200838,64,63,200839,41733,200837,44,85,747,200840,40710,156433,200841],"class_list":{"0":"post-371312","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-atp-250-memphis","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-btu-awards-2025","12":"tag-elina-svitolina","13":"tag-elina-svitolina-vitaliy-sachko-btu-awards-2025-ukrainian-tennis-tennis-players-2025-wta-250-rouen-atp-250-memphis","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-tennis","17":"tag-tennis-players-2025","18":"tag-ukrainian-tennis","19":"tag-vitaliy-sachko","20":"tag-wta-250-rouen"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}