In the first match of the final, 20-year-old Ilya Simakin, ranked 374th in the world rankings, defeated Eric Harutyunyan (547th) with a score of 4:6, 7:6 (12:10), 6:1. . In the second match, 19-year-old Danil Panarin, ranked 1273rd in the ATP rankings, confidently defeated Daniil Ostapenkov (709th) – 6:1, 6:4.
The Russian women’s tennis team also won gold medals in the 2024 BRICS Games team tournament, defeating the Belarusian team in the final.
In the first match of the final, Polina Kudermetova, ranked 170th in the world rankings, defeated Evelina Laskevich of Belarus, ranked 429th, with a score of 6:2, 5:7, 7:5. Then, Elena Pridankina (Russia, 266th place in the WTA rankings) beat Daria Khomutyanskaya of Belarus with a score of 6:3, 6:0.
- Sergei Shubenkov: “The BRICS Games are of course not the Olympic Games”
Source: Sport
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