UMMC tennis players won eight medals for the Sverdlovsk region at the Russian table tennis championship among athletes under 16, which was held in Cheboksary from May 4 to 9.
Ramis Tuychiev, Ilya Konyukhov as part of the Sverdlovsk region national team and Serafim Orlov won gold in the team tournament. In the final, they left no chances to tennis players from Moscow - 3: 0.
The youths' performance in the singles was no less triumphant. Having confidently won the semifinal matches, Orlov and Konyukhov, teammates, the first two seeded numbers of the tournament, clashed for the gold.
During the first four games, tennis players who know each other's game perfectly took turns coming out ahead. In the fifth set, the winner was determined only when the score was 18:16 in favor of Konyukhov. This moment became a turning point. Ilya won the next game with a score of 11: 4 and became the winner of the Russian championship.
Ramis Tuychiev won the men's doubles together with the representative of the Moscow region Olgerd Kiselev, silver medals were won by the Konyukhov /Orlov duet.
UMMC tennis player Zlata Terekhova, who competed with Arina Abdullina, an athlete from the Orenburg region, took bronze among girls in doubles.
Terekhova and Orlov won silver in the mixed doubles, and Ilya Konyukhov and Anastasia Ivanova from Cheboksary.
Thanks to this result, the national team of the Sverdlovsk region took the first place in the overall team classification, the second place was taken by the Orenburg region, the athletes of Moscow became the third.
