Yishai Uliel and Lina Glushko won today (Friday) the Israeli Tennis Championship for 2020, which ended in Raanana, after a long day with two finals that lasted about three hours each. Glushko won the Israeli championship for the first time in her career after beating Shelly Brezniak, the Israeli champion last year, in the final in three sets. The women’s final was dramatic and ended after three hours of play: Brezniak won 3: 6 in the first set, Glushko answered with 1: 6 in the second and the third set was dramatic and ended with a 5: 7 victory for Glushko in the decisive tiebreaker.
Glushko said at the end: “I am very happy to win the Israeli Senior Championships for the first time, this is another milestone for me during my career. Thank you to my team – my brothers Alex Glushko, Ronen Morley, Ofer Padida, Oren Bar Nur, my sponsor, Shmuel Donnerstein, and the Tennis Association “This is a special moment – my sister Julia won the Israeli championship for the first time nine years ago and I follow her. It was a very difficult game, Shelly Brezniak played great, I did not play my best tennis and it was a real three hour final – I gave it my all and it paid off.” .
Uliel also won the Israeli championship for the first time in his career after defeating his Davis teammate, Idan Leshem, 6: 7, 6: 4 and 3: 6, for whom it was a second loss in the final. Uliel said at the end: “It’s a great feeling. I’m very happy I won this title, for me it’s very significant and I really hope to continue to play well. It was a good final, Idan served well throughout the game and I had a very hard time breaking it. It’s very difficult, but in the end I managed to win. “
Between the games, a special ceremony was held in honor of Yona Yair, “the mother of Israeli tennis”, who won an award for a lifetime achievement from the European Tennis Association. In addition, the awards ceremony for the Israeli Youth Championship took place at the same time.
