6th
international chess tournament Tashkent Open in memory of Georgy Agzamov, the
first grandmaster of Uzbekistan
Suhbat Daminov, UT
The
tournament is growing from year to year, and this time even recorded 110
participants divided into two rooms: 40 strongest played in Shodlik-Palace
Hotel, while the rest played in the Republican Chess Club.
The fate of straight ticket to the London Olympics was decided in Jar stadium in Tashkent March 14 where Uzbekistan
played home with the United
Arab Emirates.
Continental
selection for World Cup reaches climax
Alisher Daniyarov, UT
The national football team of Uzbekistan who
have completed the third qualification round for the World Cup 2014 with an
unexpected, and therefore particularly pleasing, away victory over Japan, went
into the next stage of qualification from the first place in Group C with five
wins and a draw in six matches.
Uzbekistan’s top tennis player Denis Istomin defeated
the world’s no.5 in the third round of BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells.
Sergey Danilov,
UT
The traditional combined tournament in Indian
Wells, California, opening Masters Series 1000 for men and women’s Premier
Mandatory, along with tournaments following after them in Miami, are often called
the fifth and sixth tournaments of the Grand Slam: the same grid of seven rounds
(although all 32 seeded receive a direct pass to the second round), a very
impressive prize pool and a great number of top players.
Sports complex Jar in Tashkent
has gathered over 500 athletes for Uzbekistan’s championship in judo
among men and women. Isn’t this an evidence of the immense popularity of the
martial art in which the Uzbeks have made stunning progress in recent years.
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