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Tennis Competition at the Ukrainian Diaspora
Olympiad – 2008
By George
Sawchak
Horsham, PA. The fourth
Ukrainian Diaspora Olympiad was held at Tryzubiwka, a sports complex of USO
Tryzub, during the fourth of July weekend, 4-6 July 2008. Tennis was one of
the sports contested during the Olympiad. Played on four recently
technically repaired courts at Tryzubiwka, the competition was in men’s
open, men’s 45, two junior girls and two junior boys’ groups, singles only.
Mykola
Stroinick, recent USCAK-East men’s singles champion, won the gold medal in
the open men’s group when, in the final round, Don Kopach, silver medal
winner, had to retire with the score 6-0, 3-4 due to injury. To reach the
finals, Stroinick defeated Andrew Wapowsky 6-1, 6-3 and Alex Charchalis by
the same score. Kopach defeated Mykola Nalyvayko, Sr. in a close three
setter 6-2, 2-6, 6-1. Nalyvayko took the bronze medal winning over Alex
Charchalis 2-6, 6-2, 6-4.
In the men’s
45’s group George Walchuk won the gold medal when in the finals of the
group, he defeated Jerry Tymkiw 6-3, 6-3. In the semi-finals, silver
medalist Tymkiw, upset first seeded Ivan Durbak 2-6, 6-2, 7-5, while Walchuk
overcame George Hrabec 6-1, 6-2. Durbak took the bronze medal winning from
George Hrabec 6-0, 6-1. Another bronze medal was awarded in this group to
Walter Dziwak, a 6-3, 7-6 (3) final feed-in winner over Orest Wasyluk.
Olenka
Olesnycky took the gold medal in the girls’ 18’s group when in the finals,
she defeated silver medalist, Marta Cherpak, 6-3, 6-3. In the semi-finals
Olesnycky won from Anissa Boyko 6-3, 7-6 and Cherpak from Laryssa Boyko 6-4,
6-4. A battle for the bronze medal between the Boyko sisters was decided in
favor of Anissa 6-0, 2-6, 6-4. The girls’ 14 gold medal was awarded to Marta
Cherpak.
Alexander
Charchalis won the boys’ 18 gold medal defeating in the finals silver
medalist, Mykola Nalyvayko, Jr. 6-0, 6-0. In the semi-finals Charchalis
overcame Greg Olesnycky 6-4, 6-3 and Nalyvayko, Adrian Charchalis 6-0, 6-0.
Greg Olesnycky took the bronze medal by winning over Adrian Charchalis 6-0,
6-1. Olesnycky was also awarded a gold medal in the boys’ 14’s group with
the silver going to Adrian Charchalis.
There were 28
individual matches contested in the tennis competition at the Ukrainian
Diaspora Olympiad- 2008. The tournament ended late Sunday afternoon with the
medal presentation ceremony. Presenting the medals were George Sawchak,
tournament director, and George Hrabec, USCAK tennis committee member.
The next
Ukrainian tennis tournament will be USCAK’s singles championships, which
will be held on August 30-31, and September 1, 2008 at Soyuzivka,
Kerhonkson, New York.
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