Top tennis stars participate in Tennis Plays for Peace as Nadal teams with Sakkari and Kostyuk and Gauff challenges Tiafoe

The Australian Open followed the US Open in putting on a Tennis Plays for Peace event with a heavy focus on what has been going on in Ukraine for the past year.

Several Ukrainian players participated in the event as well as plenty of other tennis stars that featured in the US Open event as well. The star-studded lineup included Andy Murray, Alexander Zverev, Maria Sakkari, Grigor Dimitrov, Alex de Minaur, and Ukrainian tennis players Marta Kostyuk and Dayana Yastremska.

Nadal teamed up with Sakkari and Kostyuk to take on de Minaur, Dimitrov and Yastremska. The event also featured the oldest living tennis players as Leonid Stanislavskyi (98) from Ukraine and Henry Young (99) from Australia also took part. They hit some balls with Tiafoe and Zverev. Coco Gauff had a highlight with an around-the-net winner which will be shown below.

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