Liudmyla Kichenok wins US Open-2024 in doubles

Liudmyla Kichenok wins US Open-2024 in doubles

Kyiv  •  UNN

September 6 2024, 07:07 PM  •  9247 views

Ukrainian tennis player Liudmyla Kichenok and Latvian Jelena Ostapenko won the doubles final of the US Open-2024. This is Kichenok's first victory at a Grand Slam tournament and Ukraine's second victory in the history of the Grand Slam doubles tournament.

Ukrainian tennis player Lyudmyla Kichenok won the US Open-2024 in doubles, UNN reports citing the NOC.

Ukrainian tennis player Liudmyla Kichenok and Latvian tennis player Jelena Ostapenko defeated Kristina Mladenovic (France) and Shuai Zhang (China) in a two-set match (6-4, 6-3) in the doubles final of the US Open-2024.

As noted by the NOC, this is the first victory in her career at a Grand Slam tournament for Liudmyla Kichenok. Overall, Ukraine won the doubles Grand Slam for the second time in its history: the first time was at the 2008 Australian Open, where sisters Alyona and Kateryna Bondarenko won.