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The first goal in the match between the national teams of Ukraine and Macedonia was seen by the spectators only in the 3rd minute. What is pleasing is that its "authorship" belonged to the left winger of our team, Olena Radchenko – 1:0.
At the World Chess Cup, which is taking place these days in Khanty-Mansiysk, the first games of the 1/8 finals were held on Tuesday. The only representative of Ukraine at this stage of the tournament – Ruslan Ponomariov won the first game of the tournament, defeating the Dutchman Loek van Wely.
Finally, fans of women's handball have waited for the most important event of this year: the medal competition of the 17th world championship in this sport has begun in Russian St. Petersburg. Everything as usual: already from the start of the competition we received the first portion of "patterns" and a surprise.
Ukrainian Ruslan Ponomariov advanced to the round of 16 of the Chess World Cup, winning both games of the third round against China's Yun Xiu. The score is 2:0 in Ponomariov's favor. Oleksandr Areshchenko also ended his run at the World Cup, losing in two games to Levon Aronian with an overall score of 1.5:0.5.
Odesa's "Chornomorets," despite being given an opportunity in the form of a second awarded penalty, was unable to take at least one point from Uzhhorod, while "Illichivets" at home upset another contender for the championship's "bronze" awards – Donetsk's "Metalurh.
Having won in the fourth round of the group tournament of the UEFA Cup against French "Rennes", Donetsk "Shakhtar" secured one of the places in the next round of the UEFA Cup. After four games, the miners have collected 9 points and can calmly switch to matches of the Ukrainian championship.
Despite the defeat in the last match of the UEFA Cup group tournament against Romanian "Rapid" and not entirely successful matches in the Ukrainian championship, Donetsk "Shakhtar" continued its upward progress in the ranking of the best clubs on the planet according to the International Federation of Football History…
As regrettable as it is, this season the team that for the past two years we had placed considerable hopes on in the UEFA Cup draw is leaving it already at the group stage...
17-year-old Victoria Kutusova in the new WTA ranking rose to 76th place and became the number one of Ukrainian women's singles tennis. It should be noted that last week Kutusova won the tournament in French Poitiers and thanks to this rose 19 spots in the ranking.
Yesterday, Ukrainian electronic media provided information about a possible conspiracy in the conduct of the Ukrainian championship match "Volyn" - "Metalurh" (Zaporizhzhia). The reason for the suspicions was the behavior of several bookmaker companies in the country in accepting bets on the specified game.
