Spectacular Tennis on Capital's Courts
SPORT The Minsk Times Thursday, February 6, 2014 11 Trying on the Spectacular Champion’s belt By Igor Leshin Belarusian Thai boxer, Vitaly Gurkov, beats Thailand’s Kem tennis on Sitsongpeenong to become the WBC world professional champion The Belarusian and the Thai (who was the current holder of the Cham- capital’s pion’s title and the WBC Muay Thai belt) met in Milan in Italy as part of the Ring War tournament. The five- round fight lasted for almost two courts hours. In the first round, Gurkov made several mistakes, which pro- fessional Sitsongpeenong used to his Belarusian national team advantage. However, sometime later, the Belarusian boxer broke the trend, beats the Irish 4:1 in the first eventually winning with a minor lead. The two sportsmen have fought round of the Davis Cup in the past as amateurs, rather than as professionals, as part of the 2012 By Kirill Karin their defeat put an end to these World Thai Boxing Championship in hopes. Did the guests have a St. Petersburg. Gurkov won then also. Hundreds of fans chanting ‘Be- chance for victory? Yes, they did. Our sportsman combines the skills larus! Belarus!’, magnificent rallies, During the game, the Belarusian of both Thai boxing and kick-boxing intriguing duels between repre- pair had to catch up more than and has previously won several world sentatives of our country and their once, winning back set points, events (primarily in Muay Thai) as an Irish counterparts. All of this was and even match points. How- amateur. Gurkov began his profes- seen during the three day event, ever, our tennis players pressed sional career in 2001.
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