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On Thursday, in the second round of the Wimbledon tournament, Ukrainian tennis player Olena Bondarenko defeated Russian Tatyana Panova in three sets and advanced to the third round of the competition. The match ended with a victory for Olena Bondarenko with the score: 6:3, 2:6, 6:3. \n
The famous former athlete and member of the International Olympic Committee, Serhiy Bubka, was elected as the new president of the National Olympic Committee of Ukraine at an extraordinary General Assembly of this organization.
Ukraine's junior national team has ended its run at the World Championship (U-20) in Holland. In the round of 16, the Ukrainians lost 0:1 to Nigeria. The only goal in this game was scored in the 80th minute by Taiwo Taiye.
Of the five Ukrainian tennis players who started in the main draw of the prestigious Wimbledon tournament with a prize fund of more than 10 million pounds sterling, only two managed to advance to the second round.
After the matches of the fourth round at the European Chess Championship, Ukrainian Serhiy Karyakin scored 3.5 points and continues to be in the group of leaders consisting of ten chess players.
Two rounds before the end of the European Women's Chess Championship in Chisinau, 15-year-old Ukrainian Kateryna Lahno caught up with the tournament leaders by defeating her compatriot Natalia Zdebska in the tenth round. Lahno now has 7.5 points and occupies first place.
Due to the introduction of a quota on legionnaires, Ukrainian superclubs have started searching for "their own players." \n \nIt is quite possible that at the start of the next championship, Dnipropetrovsk "Dnipro" will be missing several football players at once.
Ukrainian Kateryna Lahno drew her game in the 6th round of the Women's European Chess Championship, which is currently taking place in Moldova. Her opponent today was Russian Nadezhda Kosintseva. \n \nThus, our chess player has 5 points, and after 6 rounds she is one of the leaders of the European championship.
Two of the three Ukrainian tennis players who reached the third round of qualifying for the Wimbledon tennis tournament fulfilled their minimum task.
Too much has already been said about this match. And if previously, before the meeting of the two most principled rivals of the Ukrainian championship, everyone tried to predict the score, this time another question became relevant: "Or will we not see a duel of two reserve teams?"