Athletistic / Tennis. In the first round of the mixed doubles at the Paris Olympics, Russians Daniil Medvedev and Mirra Andreeva will face Italians Andrea Vavassori and Sara Errani.
SPORT.RU invites you to a live online text broadcast of this match:
2024 Olympic Games. Tennis. 1/8 finals. Vavassori/Errani – Medvedev/Andreeva. Live
On Monday, July 29, the mixed doubles competitions began at the Olympic tournament in Paris. A total of 16 couples were represented at the tournament, which formed the 1/8 finals. Our country is represented by the 5th racket in men’s singles, Daniil Medvedev, and the 23rd racket in women’s singles, Mirra Andreeva.
At the start of the mixed doubles tournament, Medvedev had already played two matches at the ongoing Olympics. First, Daniil played a match in the men’s singles against Australian Rinki Hijikata. This meeting ended with a confident victory of the Russian – 6:2, 6:1. After that, Medvedev also started in the men’s doubles, in a pair with Roman Safioullin, where the Russians experienced failure. Our duo lost to Germans Kevin Kravitz and Tim Pütz – 4:6, 4:6.
As for Mirra Andreeva, the 17-year-old Russian had a poor start in women’s singles. In the first round, Mirra lost to Poland’s Magda Linett with a score of 3:6, 4:6. In doubles, Mirra will begin her participation in the Olympic tournament on Tuesday, July 30. Andreeva will play in tandem with Diana Schneider against the Australian duo Ajla Tomljanovic/Olivia Gadeki.
What about our pair’s current rivals? The 29-year-old Italian Andrea Vavassori played two matches in a row yesterday. First, in the men’s singles, he beat the Spaniard Pedro Martinez-Portero (6:4, 4:6, 6:4), then in the duo with Simone Bolelli, he lost the doubles match to the Spaniards Marcel Granollers and Pablo Carreno. -Bust-6:2, 6:7, 0:1.
As for Sara Errani, 37, she started the Olympic Games yesterday in women’s singles, losing to China’s Zheng Qingwen with a score of 0:6, 0:6. And today Sarah celebrated her victory in women’s doubles with Jasmine Paolini. The Italian duo won against New Zealand pair Erin Rutliffe / Lulu Sun (6:2, 6:3).
2024 Olympic Games. Tennis. 1/8 finals. Vavassori/Errani – Medvedev/Andreeva. Live
The live online broadcast of this match will start at SPORT.RU July 29 at the earliest at 20:30 Moscow time
Source: Sport
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