Oleksiy Sereda wins two medals in the World Cup Super Final

Diving medals, Elina Svitolina's winning streak, basketball's silver medal for Interchem and the Olympic champion 's first start of the season - in the digest of sports events from the South of Ukraine from Intent.

Diving. World Cup super final

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<i>Alexey Sereda. Photo: Ukrainian Diving Federation</i>

• The Ukrainian national diving team was represented in five disciplines at the World Cup Super Final held in Beijing, China. Our representatives won medals in two of them.
• In the synchronized diving from the 10-meter tower, 19-year-old Oleksiy Sereda from Mykolaiv, together with his 15-year-old partner Mark Hrytsenko, finished third in the competition.
• In the team mix (3 and 10 meters), the Ukrainian team was second. In addition to Sereda, Kirill Bolyukh, Sofia Lyskun, and Ksenia Bailo from Mykolaiv won silver medals.
• In the individual competition, Oleksiy reached the final round with one of the best results in his career, but even this was not enough to win the third medal, the fourth place.

Tennis. Svitolina's winning streak is interrupted

Elina Svitolina. Photo: Oscar Barroso.

• Yulia Starodubtseva ended her competition at the WTA1000 tournament in Madrid at the 1/8 finals stage. The Ukrainian lost in two sets to the "neutral" seventh-ranked Mirra Andreeva. However, this performance allowed Kakhovka to move up 20 places in the world rankings - now she is eighth. Elina Svitolina and Marta Kostiuk won their matches. It should be noted that Svitolina's game was postponed to another day due to a blackout in Spain.

Marta Kostiuk. Photo: Jimmie48

• <span>In the quarterfinals, Marta Kostiuk lost in two tiebreaks to the world number one, unflagged Arina Sobolenko, in an equal fight and not without a scandal . During the second tiebreak, it was raining, and at some point Sobolenko refused to serve the second serve. The umpire on the tower decided after the break... to replay the game from the first serve. It seems that everyone is equal before the rules, but some are more equal. </span>
• In the semifinals, Svitolina, who had previously won the tournament in Rouen, lost to Sobolenko in two sets. This defeat broke one of the best winning streaks on clay courts in the history of women's tennis - Elina had won 11 matches in a row without dropping a single game.

Alexandra Oliynykova. Photo: _drones4ua.org_.

• Ukrainian athlete Oleksandra Oliinykova (who lives in Croatia but represents Odesa at the tournament) won the ITF W35 tournament in Italy. This is Oleksandra's first trophy of the season and the third of this level in her career.

Games and results

Chornomorets vs. Shakhtar match. Photo: FC Chornomorets

• "Chornomorets lost to Shakhtar Donetsk ina home match without a chance . The fate of thematch was decided by a double by the Pitmen's Brazilian legionnaire Neverton . With three rounds to go, Odesa are 10 points behind the 12th place that guaranteed survival and 5 points behind the 14th place that, instead of direct relegation, gives them the right to play transition matches.

Premier League table. Screenshot: flashscore.ua

"Interchem are the silver medalists of the Super League. Photo: fbu.ua

• "Interchem-SDUSSHOR are the silver medalists of the Women's Basketball Super League. The final place of Odesa was determined in the second match of the final series. "Frankivsk-Prykarpattia won at home and defended its championship. Two of InterChem's players received personal awards at the end of the season: Elena Samburskaya was recognized as the best defender of the championship, and Ksenia Pankina was named the best light forward.

The national team of Ukraine. Photo: Ukrainian Ice Hockey Federation

• The Ukrainian national ice hockey team was one step away from joining the world's elite. The Ukrainians successfully played matches in rounds 2-4 (two wins in regular time and one in shootouts). In the last match against Japan, it was enough not to lose in regular time to reach the top division. But a poor performance in the second period led to a two-goal lead for the Japanese. In the third, we managed to win back only one. The result was third place and another year in Division IA.

Screenshot: flashscore.ua

Events of the week

Alina Komashchuk. Photo: Eva Pavia/FIE.

• Ukrainian fencers competed at the Grand Prix in Seoul, Korea. Alina Komashchuk, an Olympic champion from Odesa, made it to the top 16 in the competition. Olena Kravatska was 36th. It should be noted that this is Olena's first competition after the Olympics. The foil fencers competed at the World Cup in Vancouver, Canada, and Alina Poloziuk from Mykolaiv took 67th place individually and became thirteenth with her team.

Yaroslava Maguchikh. Screenshot: Wanda Diamond League

• Jaroslawa Maguchikhis undefeated at the Diamond League. This year, the world record holder has already won two tournaments in Xiamen and Shanghai, China. The second representative of Ukraine, Yulia Levchenko, took fourth place both times.

• Mykolaiv-based Niko Basket will play in the Men's Super League next season. This was confirmed by the head of Mykolaiv Regional State Administration Vitaliy Kim.

Photo of the week.

Olga Harlan. Photo: Eva Pavia/FIE.

• Although Olga Kharlan did not compete at the Grand Prix in Seoul, this did not stop her from being with her friends as the most ardent fan of the Ukrainian team.

Traditionally, we wish you and your favorite athletes and teams all the best!

Адлен Муатс