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Ukrainian tennis player Svitolina loses semifinal match at Tokyo Olympics, to compete for bronze

By Interfax-Ukraine.

Published July 29, 2021 at 4:10 pm

Ukraine's Elina Svitolina returns the ball to Czech Republic's Marketa Vondrousova during their Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games women's singles semifinal tennis match at the Ariake Tennis Park in Tokyo on July 29, 2021.

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Ukrainian tennis player Elina Svitolina in the women’s singles semifinal on July 29, lost to Markéta Vondroušová from the Czech Republic.

According to the results published on the website of the Olympiad, the final score was 3:6, 1:6 in favour of the athlete from the Czech Republic.

Svitolina will compete for the bronze medal in the match with the representative of Kazakhstan Elena Rybakina, who lost to the tennis player from Sweden Belinda Bencic in her semifinals.