{"id":435455,"date":"2026-01-27T01:43:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T01:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/435455\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T01:43:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T01:43:07","slug":"inglis-to-splash-out-on-new-toaster-and-maybe-the-kettle-after-swiatek-ends-melbourne-run-australian-open-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/435455\/","title":{"rendered":"Inglis to splash out on new toaster \u2018and maybe the kettle\u2019 after Swiatek ends Melbourne run | Australian Open 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Maddison Inglis leaves Melbourne Park with a lot, including the high-end toaster she\u2019s always wanted. There is pride, having reached the round of 16 at the Australian Open<\/a>, but also disappointment. In the biggest match of the local qualifier\u2019s career, the world No 2 Iga Swiatek proved too polished, securing a 6-0, 6-3 victory on Monday night.<\/p>\n

The result leaves no more local players in the women\u2019s singles draw. In the men\u2019s singles, there is only Alex de Minaur<\/a>, who plays top seed Carlos Alcaraz<\/a> on Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n

Against Swiatek, Inglis was up against a top 10 player for only the second time. The first set delivered a bagel, so she set out to prove she was worthy of her place, that she can handle the heat. In the kitchen of Rod Laver Arena, she broke the Pole at the start of the second set and celebrated \u2013 part show, part sincere \u2013 by jumping along the baseline, arms aloft.<\/p>\n

\u201cI could go the other way and just mope around like I lost the first 6-0, but I just wanted to enjoy it and try and keep the spirits up,\u201d she said. \u201cI was just like: \u2018Keep fighting, I\u2019ll get there, and if I don\u2019t, it\u2019s not the end of the world.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Inglis won two more games and had a near-miss at 2-4, dropping to her knees and squealing on a break point when her forehand flew just long. But she was smiling again \u2013 as she has done for much of the past two weeks \u2013 when she met Swiatek at the net. \u201cI\u2019m proud. I gave it everything these last two weeks,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Her tournament has included a dramatic run through qualifying, two tough main draw victories \u2013 including one against her close friend Kimberly Birrell, the world No 76 \u2013 and a walkover following Naomi Osaka\u2019s last-minute withdrawal<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Yet Swiatek was something else. The 24-year-old is chasing a seventh grand slam title. If she wins it at Melbourne Park this week, she would be the third youngest player to complete a career grand slam.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe\u2019s just a next-level player,\u201d Inglis said. \u201cI don\u2019t think I\u2019ve had a lot of experience playing those matches, you just feel that pressure from every ball from her. It\u2019s just \u2026 \u2018I\u2019ve kind of got to do something here. I\u2019ve got to really take my chances that I get because I\u2019m not going to get too many.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Maddison Inglis cannot hide her glee after breaking Iga Swiatek at the start of the second set to win her first game. Photograph: James Ross\/EPA<\/p>\n

The 28-year-old\u2019s WTA profile page lists winning a grand slam title and reaching the top 10 as goals, but the top 100 is her more immediate objective. When the rankings come out next week, she is tipped to be within a baker\u2019s dozen of that threshold. \u201cThat jump from 113 to 100 is still a long way,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Reaching further than any other Australian woman at Melbourne Park has placed her firmly within a cohort, alongside Maya Joint, Daria Kasatkina, Birrell and Ajla Tomljanovic, as the country\u2019s WTA Tour leaders.<\/p>\n

\u201cHonestly, going into this tournament, I didn\u2019t think that I had that in me,\u201d she said. \u201cI had a chat to someone close to me the first day, and I was, like: \u2018I don\u2019t know how I\u2019m going to get out on court, I just feel exhausted,\u2019 and it\u2019s the first tournament of the year.\u201d<\/p>\n

Inglis plans to play an ITF tournament in Brisbane next month, but more immediately she will watch her fiance Jason Kubler in the men\u2019s doubles quarter-finals alongside Marc Polmans. She must also work out what to do with her $480,000 (\u00a3243,000) in prize money, roughly a fifth of her career earnings and what she described as \u201ca lot of money\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ll definitely use a lot of it to invest back into my tennis and have some people on the road with me to support me and make some weeks a bit easier,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s a long year.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Gold Coast resident also intends to tackle her long shopping wishlist. At the top is a Mini Cooper, but she doesn\u2019t believe she has earned that reward yet. Below the car on the list are home appliances, headed by a KitchenAid mixer.<\/p>\n

That too can wait. Instead, Inglis is starting with something more modest. \u201cI\u2019ve wanted a Smeg toaster for so long [and] I just was, like: \u2018No you can\u2019t do that,\u2019\u201d she said, of an appliance that retails for a few hundred dollars. \u201cThat\u2019s going to be my treat. And maybe the kettle, too.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Maddison Inglis leaves Melbourne Park with a lot, including the high-end toaster she\u2019s always wanted. There is pride,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":435456,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-435455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}