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Tsvetana Pironkova’s participation in Rio ends

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The participation of Bulgarian tennis player Tsvetana Pironkova at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro has ended. In the first round of the Olympic tennis tournament Pironkova lost 6:1, 4:6, 2:6 against German Laura Siegemund. 28-year-old Prironkova won easily the first set and led 2:1 in the second, but Siegemund managed to win. In the decisive third part Pironkova began to catch up, but after 2:2 she lost four consecutive games and match.



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