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Several world tennis stars, including Spaniard and Grand Slam record holder (22), Rafael Nadal, participated in exhibition meetings on Wednesday to raise funds for Ukraine, which has been attacked by Russia for half a year.
In addition to Nadal, his compatriot Carlos Alcaraz, the Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas, the Polish number one in the world Iga Swiatek, the Greek Maria Sakkari and the American glory John McEnroe, among others, also participated.
The event, co-hosted by the United States Tennis Association and the US OpenIt took place at the Louis Armstrong venue, one of the venues used for the fourth major of the year, scheduled between August 29 and September 11, in New York.
The initiative was intended to raise funds to support the victims of the Russian military intervention in Ukraine and will continue during the US Openexpecting the promoters to reach a sum of two million dollars, approximately the same in euros.
The war in Ukraine, which began on February 24, has so far caused more than 5,500 deaths and around 8,000 injuries among the civilian population, according to the UN, causing the flight of about 13 million people.
Source: Observadora
