The fourth day of the Olympic Games in Paris has ended, and the Japanese team continues to lead the medal count. This is reported by a Lenta.ru correspondent.
A total of 12 sets of awards were contested. Japanese athletes won one gold medal: Takanori Nagase won in judo in the weight category up to 81 kilograms. The second place is occupied by the Chinese team, which has six gold, six silver and two bronze medals. In third place are the Australians with six gold, four silver and one bronze medal.
On the fourth day of competition, Russians were represented only in tennis. Daniil Medvedev played in singles, Mirra Andreeva and Diana Schneider in doubles.
Russian tennis players win
Mirra Andreeva
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Andreeva and Schneider advanced to the second round of the Olympics. In the opening match, the Russians beat the Australian duo of Ajla Tomljanovic and Olivia Gadecki. The match ended with a score of 6:3, 2:6, 10:1. The athletes spent 1 hour and 19 minutes on the court.
After the match, Andreeva said that she and Schneider had never trained together and were playing together for the first time. At the same time, as Mirra noted, they tried to support each other and chose a successful tactic.
In the next round, the athletes will play against their opponents from Canada, Gabriela Dabrowski and Leyla Fernandez. The date of the match has not yet been determined.
Medvedev also advanced to the next round of the Olympics. In the second round of singles, the 28-year-old athlete defeated Austrian Sebastian Ofner. The match lasted one hour and six minutes and ended with a score of 6:2, 6:2. In the 1/8 finals, the Russian will face Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime.
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Source: Lenta
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