Ukrainian tennis player Ilya Marchenko (ATP 412) in the first round of qualifying Challenger in Oeiras (Portugal) beat the Russian Alexey Vatutin (ATP 324) in two sets in 1 hour and 47 minutes.
ATP challenger Oeiras. Hard indoors. Qualification
Alexei Vatutin – Ilya Marchenko (Ukraine) – 4:6, 6:7 (2:7)
In the finals of the qualification, Ilya will meet with the winner of the match Mark Layal – Alibek Kachmazov.
Note that after the end of the match Marchenko did not shake hands with the player from the Russian Federation. By the way, in July 2022, Ilya he did the same after playing with another Russian – Andrey Kuznetsov.
As long as Marchenko does not put pressure on the representatives of the aggressor country at the highest level, in the past the legend of Ukrainian football Anatoly Tymoshchuk feels comfortable in the coaching staff of the St. Petersburg “Zenith”. By the way, yesterday, January 7, the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky sanctions imposed in relation to 119 people, including pseudo-Ukrainian and rashist cultural figures, including Tymoshchuk.
