Polish tennis player Iga Sventek beat Tunisia’s Ons Jaber in the US Open Grand Slam final.
The result of the meeting – 6:2, 7:6 (7:5). The rivals spent 1 hour and 53 minutes on the court.
Sventek tops the rankings of the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA), Zhaber is in fifth position.
Schwentek became a three-time winner of the Grand Slam tournaments. She previously won Roland Garros 2020 and Roland Garros 2022.
Jabeur has played in her second Grand Slam final this year. In July, she lost to the representative of Kazakhstan, Elena Rybakina, in the decisive Wimbledon match.
The US Open 2022 prize pool is over $60 million.
The Grand Slam series is the most prestigious in tennis and combines four competitions: the Australian Open (Australian Open), France (Roland Garros) and the United States (US Open), as well as the Wimbledon tournament in the UK.
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German Foreign Minister Annalena Berbock has arrived in Kyiv for the second time since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, reports the German publication Spiegel.
According to the magazine, with the trip, Burbock wanted to show “that we will continue to support Ukraine for as long as necessary – with the supply of weapons, humanitarian and financial support,” she said on Saturday morning when she arrived.
“Today I went to Kyiv to show that they (Ukrainians – IF-U) can continue to rely on us,” the Foreign Minister stressed.
In Kyiv, Burbock intends to hold talks, in particular, with Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba. The rest of the program was kept secret for security reasons.
At a meeting on Saturday, the Government of Ukraine decided to attract additional financing from the World Bank in the amount of $530 million as part of a joint project with the Bank and the International Development Association (IDA) “Supporting Public Expenditure to Ensure Sustainable Public Administration in Ukraine.”
“The loan will be provided on concessional terms under the guarantees of the UK and Denmark: the loan repayment period is 19 years with a five-year grace period,” the Finance Ministry said.
According to its release, the interest rate is 0.25% per annum (charged on the unused part of the loan).
The Ministry of Finance clarified that the funds will be used to pay for the work of public sector employees, provide pension payments and certain state social assistance programs, such as payment for housing and communal services, support for low-income families, disabled children and disabled since childhood, IDPs, as well as for paying medical services under the program of medical guarantees, etc.
As reported, the project “Support to public spending to ensure sustainable public administration in Ukraine” has been implemented since June 2022. The total amount of funds raised is $7.3 billion. The goal of this project is to maintain the sustainable ability of the government of Ukraine to carry out administrative activities and provide services for the performance of core government functions at the national and regional levels.
Ukraine will consider the possibility of opening a quota for the export of 100,000 tons of coal to Poland in September, Prime Minister Denys Shmygal said.
“On behalf of the President of Ukraine, at the request of the Polish side, Ukraine is ready to consider the possibility of opening quotas for coal exports to Poland. We are talking about 100,000 tons in September, which are now critically needed by our Polish partners,” he wrote on his Telegram channel.
Shmyhal specified that coal reserves in the warehouses of Ukrainian power plants amount to almost 2 million tons, which is 2.5 times more than a year ago. “Therefore, we are ready to lend a shoulder of support to our Polish friends,” he stressed.
The Prime Minister of Ukraine added that during the visit of his Polish counterpart Mateusz Morawiecki to Kyiv, the parties also discussed the restoration and commissioning of the Khmelnytsky NPP-Rzeszow power line.
“We planned to finish before December 14, but thanks to the acceleration of work, we can complete a week earlier. This will allow us to export an additional 1,000 MW to Poland. For our part, we ask Poland to assist in expanding export quotas within the framework of ENTSO-E,” Shmyhal said.
According to him, Ukraine expects that by the end of 2022 the amount of available transmission capacity in the direction of Slovakia, Romania and Hungary will increase from 300 MW by another 200-300 MW, and in the direction of Poland – over 1000 MW.
As reported, since mid-June 2022, Ukraine has set zero quotas for the export of all types of coal, except for coking coal, and on September 7, it completely banned the export of Ukrainian coal.
According to the State Customs Service, Ukraine’s coal exports for seven months of 2022 amounted to 450.6 thousand tons for $145.917 million, incl. to Slovakia – by $93.349 million, Poland – by $34.084 million, Hungary – by $15.919 million, other countries – by $2.565 million.
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