Tennis
World No. 1 Swiatek fails to reach final of tennis tournament at 2024 Olympics in Paris
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World number one Iga Swiatek suffered a defeat in the semi-finals of the Olympic tournament in Paris in singles.
The Polish tennis player, who received the first seed, lost to the Chinese Zheng Qingwen (the 6th seed) in the semi-finals with a score of 2:6, 5:7. The match lasted 1 hour and 51 minutes.
For gold at the Games in Paris, Zheng Qingwen will compete with the winner of the pair Anna-Karolina Schmidlova (Slovakia) – Donna Vekic (Croatia, 13).
Olympic Games 2024. Paris (France)
Tennis. Women. Semi-finals
Zheng Qingwen (China, 6) – Iga Szwiatek (Poland, 1) – 6:2, 7:5
Source: Sportbox
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