Tennis is well and truly back at the start of 2026, with the Brisbane International getting underway today, while Alexander Zverev and Naomi Osaka are among the big names involved at the United Cup.<\/p>\n
12:30 CET – Switzerland are off to a flying start in their United Cup tie with Italy after Belinda Bencic<\/a> produced a mightily impressive performance to see off Jasmine Paolini<\/a> 6-4, 6-3<\/a>.<\/p>\n 11:47 CET – Felix Auger-Aliassime<\/a> has beaten China’s Zhizhen Zhang<\/a> in straight sets, 6-4, 6-4<\/a>, to give Canada an unassailable 2-0 lead in their United Cup tie.<\/p>\n Elsewhere, Learner Tien<\/a> is through in Brisbane after a hard-fought 7-6(4), 6-3<\/a> triumph over Camilo Ugo Carabelli<\/a>.<\/p>\n 09:56 CET – Canada have taken a 1-0 lead in their United Cup tie against China, with Victoria Mboko<\/a> coming from a set down to defeat Lin Zhu<\/a> 2-6, 6-2, 6-0<\/a>.<\/p>\n 09:19 CET –\u00a0Frances Tiafoe<\/a> is the first man through at the Brisbane International after a routine 6-2, 6-2<\/a> win over Aleksandar Vukic<\/a>, while Marie Bouzkova<\/a> has seen off Jaqueline Cristian<\/a> in straight sets, 6-4, 6-3<\/a>.<\/p>\n 07:30 CET – Good morning and welcome to our first Tennis Tracker of the year as we bring you all the latest scores and updates from the United Cup and Brisbane International!<\/p>\n There’s been plenty of overnight action down under, with Alexander Zverev<\/a> and Naomi Osaka<\/a> securing wins over Tallon Griekspoor<\/a> and Katie Swan<\/a>, respectively, at the United Cup.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, in Brisbane, former Australian Open champion Sofia Kenin<\/a> is through to the second round after a battling 6-4, 4-6, 6-3<\/a> victory over Elena Gabriela Ruse<\/a>.<\/p>\n McCartney Kessler<\/a>, Anastasia Potapova<\/a> and Ajla Tomljanovic<\/a> have also made winning starts at the WTA 500 event.\u00a0<\/p>\n Keep track of the full United Cup<\/a>, Brisbane<\/a> (ATP) and Brisbane<\/a> (WTA) schedules via the links.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tennis is well and truly back at the start of 2026, with the Brisbane International getting underway today,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391213,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-391212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391212","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=391212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}