Athletistic / Tennis. The Olympic champion of the Rio de Janeiro Games in 2016 in doubles, the Russian tennis player Elena Vesnina, spoke about the silver medal won by her compatriots Mirra Andreeva and Diana Schneider at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris (France) in this type of program.
“The girls are great, I’m very proud of them! It was their first Olympics, but they already showed such inspired tennis, they were so charged… It was a great pleasure to watch their matches at the Olympic tournament. In the final, Mirra and Diana simply did not have enough experience. The experienced Sara Errani, who was participating in her fifth Olympics, of course understood that at the decisive moment she had to use experience, certain skills. help you in the doubles game,” Vesnina was quoted as saying by Match TV.
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On August 4, in the final of the Olympic women’s doubles tennis tournament, Mirra Andreeva and Diana Schneider lost to Italians Jasmine Paolini and Sara Errani in three sets with a score of 6:2, 1:6, 0:1 (7-10).
Andreeva, 17, and Schneider, 20, brought Russia its first medal at the 2024 Olympics in Paris. At these competitions, Russians compete in neutral individual status. A total of 15 Russian athletes took part in the 2024 Olympics, including 7 tennis players.
Source: Sport
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