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At the World Chess Cup in the Russian city of Khanty-Mansiysk, the first participants of the second round have been determined. After replay matches of the first round, four Ukrainians have already advanced to the second round.

The score of the match of the 17th round of the Ukrainian championship between Lutsk "Volyn" and Zaporizhzhia "Metalurh" could have been fixed. Recall that the duel between the teams, which took place last Sunday, ended with a minimal victory for the Zaporizhzhia side - 0:1.

Ukrainian Viktoria Kutusova became the winner of the ITF tennis tournament in French Poitiers. In the final, Kutusova defeated Maret Ani of Estonia in three sets. The score of the final match was 6:3, 3:6, 6:4.
Four Ukrainians started with victories in the World Cup chess tournament in the Russian city of Khanty-Mansiysk.
The central match of the round in Dnipropetrovsk against "Dnipro" marked another loss of points for the champions of Ukraine – Donetsk "Shakhtar". The game ended with a score of 2:2, although both teams had a chance to win. The match was played on equal terms and with a large number of fouls.
The second-ever match in chess history between humans and machines ended in a convincing victory for the latter with a score of 8:4. The best result among the chess players was shown by Ukrainian Ruslan Ponomariov and Kasimzhanov - 1.5 points each out of 4. Alexander Khalifman scored 1 point.
“Father against son...” – this main “highlight” of today's European cup clash between Donetsk “Shakhtar” and Romanian “Rapid” has been chewed over in every possible way throughout the past week in the pages of print media, on television screens, on radio waves and in conversations among fans of both teams...
The quarter-final match of the Ukrainian Cup between Lviv's Karpaty and Poltava's Vorskla lived up to the fans' expectations \n \nThe quarter-final match of the Ukrainian Cup between Lviv's "Karpaty" and Poltava's "Vorskla" lived up to the fans' expectations; despite the rather cool weather in Lviv, the players of…

The VIII International Mini-Football Tournament "Volyn-2005" took place in Lutsk. Among its participants are teams of media workers from Lutsk, Kyiv, Minsk, and Vilnius.
The national football team of Ukraine, having not played a single match over the past month, dropped one place in the new ranking of the International Federation of Football Associations (FIFA), reports "Champion.com.ua".
