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Olympics 2016: Ukrainian tennis players learned rivals

Олимпиада-2016: украинские теннисисты узнали соперниковIn Rio de Janeiro hosted the draw for the Olympic tennis tournaments.

The only representative of Ukraine in the men’s singles will be Ilya Marchenko, who in the first round waiting for the match against the 74th-ranked Andreas Seppi. The only time in 2010 he won the Ukrainian.

The potential matches of the 1/4 finals men’s singles:

Novak Djokovic (Serbia, 1) – Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (France, 5)

Rafael Nadal (Spain, 3) – David Goffin (Belgium, 8)

Gael Monfis (France, 6) – Kei Nishikori (Japan, 4)

David Ferrer (Spain, 7) – Andy Murray (UK, 2)

Elina Svitolina, seeded in Rio de Janeiro under 15-m number, your way at the Olympics will start the match against German Andrea Petkovic, located on the 40-th line in the current WTA rankings. In personal meetings Svitolina leads 2:0.

Lesya Tsurenko in the opening round of play with a 38-th racket of the world from France’s Kristina Mladenovic. Tennis in Rio will play a fifth time – with the score 3:1 in this duet leading Tsurenko.

The potential matches of the 1/4 finals in women’s singles:

Serena Williams (USA, 1) – Robert Vinci (Italy, 6)

Garbine Muguruza (Spain, 3) – Vinus Williams (the USA, 5)

Madison keys (USA, 7) – Agnieszka Radwanska (Poland, 4)

Svetlana Kuznetsova (Russia, 8) – Angelique Kerber (Germany, 2)

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